[pmwiki-users] skin info wanted

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 06:37:06PM +0200, Roman wrote:
> >> 2
> >> Should there be only 1 skin .tmpl file
> >> in each skin directory?
> >
> >In a basic skin, yes.  Fancier skins may have
> >multiple .tmpl files, in which case it's up to
> >a skin.php file to select the appropriate one to
> >use.
> 
> That sounds good, I thought it's not possible. On my site, front page
> has different layout than other pages, so I defined two skins with
> different .tmpl files and duplicates of images and CSS files. You say
> that it is possible to have only one skin with more .tmpl files. Can
> you give us an example how to select particular tmpl file?

Inside the skin.php file, simply call LoadPageTemplate()
with the name of the .tmpl file to be loaded:

    LoadPageTemplate($pagename, "$SkinDir/xyz.tmpl");

For example, a skin can specify a special template to be used
if the action is 'print':

    if ($GLOBALS['action'] == 'print') 
      LoadPageTemplate($pagename, "$SkinDir/print.tmpl");

The skins code processes any skin.php file before loading any
templates.  If there is no skin.php file, or if the skin.php
file doesn't load a template, then PmWiki falls back to looking
for a template with the same name of the skin, or a single .tmpl
file if it exists.

Pm