3.5 Design Look and Feel SiteAccess Selector

Friday 08 April 2005 10:59:49 am

How can I add a SiteAccess Selector to the Look and Feel screen? It's available in several other places and it seems it ought to be there too.

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Monday 11 April 2005 1:31:01 pm

Ok, thanks Fredrik. Over the weekend we found how to make it set Look & Feel for the Current SiteAccess only (instead of a Global Override). Two simple line changes in the Kernel. Also, had to change one more line so that the SiteName is also set for the current SiteAccess only. Works well because we already allow simple edits from the user-site SiteAccess, but of course it would still be better if we could use a SiteAccess Selector instead; then it could be used from the Admin SiteAccess instead of only from the user-site SiteAccess.

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Tuesday 12 April 2005 3:44:46 pm

Esteban,
yes that is true. But in the method I used you actually get another SiteAccess in the datatype of the class called 'CurrentAccess' (just below 'override')so don't need to edit it for each site.
However, haven't yet found how to make the Banner Image SiteAccess Specific.

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Wednesday 13 April 2005 11:12:16 am

That,a where the three Kernel edits come in. But still working on getting the Logo to be site specific. ThenThe menu layouts next...

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Wednesday 13 April 2005 1:51:49 pm

Ok this is as far as we've got. Remember this only works if you edit while in the site access you want to change (not while in the Admin siteAccess).
Change line 134 of ezpackagetype.php from

$iniPath = "settings/siteaccess/$siteAccess"; 

to

$accessArray = $GLOBALS['eZCurrentAccess'];
$access = $accessArray['name'];
$iniPath = "settings/siteaccess/$access"; 

next change line 332 (I don't know yet if Line 195 might also benefit from a similar change ) of ezinisettingtype.php from

$path = 'settings/siteaccess/'.siteAccessArray[$iniInstance];

to

$path = $iniInstance == 1 ? 'settings/siteaccess/' . $GLOBALS['eZCurrentAccess']['name'] : 'settings/siteaccess/' . $siteAccessArray[$iniInstance];

then change line 601 of the same ezinisettingtype.php file from

$siteAccessList = 'override';

to

$siteAccessList = 'override;currentSite'; 

then edit the sitedesign class (the one for the choice of designs)to use 'currentSite'
We're also making progress with siteAccess specific Logo changes but it's quite long winded and too early to call it a solution.
Please don't blame me if the above totally mucks-up your installation. If and when it's all done, dusted and tested I'll publish the whole thing as a clean extension with instructions etc.

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