vb.org Archive - How does the blog product implement custom skins?

Okay, this was mind numbingly simple in the long run.

It involves making a plugin, and making a vb option, both of which can be achieved in debug mode and exported into the XML:

for the blog, the plugin code is here:

Code:





                <plugin active="1" executionorder="5">

                        <title>Style: Override Style and Setup Group Blog Permissions</title>

                        <hookname>style_fetch</hookname>

                        <phpcode><![CDATA[if (defined('VBBLOG_STYLE') AND $vbulletin->options['vbblog_style'])

{

        $styleid = $vbulletin->options['vbblog_style'];

        $vbulletin->userinfo['styleid'] = $styleid;

        $userselect = true;

        $vbulletin->options['allowchangestyles'] = false;

}]]></phpcode>

                </plugin>

and the setting code is here

Code:

                        <setting varname="vbblog_style" displayorder="1">

                                <datatype>number</datatype>

                                <optioncode><![CDATA[select:eval

require_once(DIR . '/includes/adminfunctions_template.php');

global $stylecache;

cache_styles();

$options = array(0 => $vbphrase['none']);

foreach($stylecache AS $style)

{

        $options["$style[styleid]"] = construct_depth_mark($style['depth'], '--') . " $style[title]";

}]]></optioncode>

                                <defaultvalue>0</defaultvalue>

                        </setting>

obviously, replace vbblog with your product name were applicable.

hope this saves you some time, it took me 5 hours of digging through every file prefixed with blog_ to figure this out and was right under my nose as usual.

//----------
when the blog is installed, you are given the option to assign a particular skin to the blog, that is different from the default style of the forum...

I would like to implement this in a product I am developing as well. Where/how in the code does this happen? Can anyone give me an abstract or point to a particular file?

I noticed the following line in blog.php, but can't find any further refrence:

PHP Code:


		
			

define('VBBLOG_STYLE', true);

I also see this in the product-vbblog.xml, and have located the var in the database, but cannot figure out where it gets called back into the php from mysql:

Code:



                <settinggroup name="vbblog" displayorder="678">

                        <setting varname="vbblog_style" displayorder="1">

                                <datatype>number</datatype>

                                <optioncode><![CDATA[select:eval

require_once(DIR . '/includes/adminfunctions_template.php');

global $stylecache;

cache_styles();

$options = array(0 => $vbphrase['none']);

foreach($stylecache AS $style)

{

        $options["$style[styleid]"] = construct_depth_mark($style['depth'], '--') . " $style[title]";

}]]></optioncode>

                                <defaultvalue>0</defaultvalue>

                        </setting>

Update, this is quite a rabbit hole. I found this in /includes/class_bootstrap.php however it is a protected var:

PHP Code:


		
			

    /**
    * A particular style ID to force. If specified, it will be used even if disabled.
    *
    * @var    int
    */
    protected $force_styleid = 0;

Thanks.

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