[musicguy]

I have located the php, tpl, and cfg files but my understanding of exactly how they work together is pretty foggy at this point

I want to be able to practice editing a theme,
maybe just change some colors and the background image etc...

can anyone help me out, or atleast point me in the right direction?

thanks!




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[djmerlyn]

I think the best way to get started, is to log in to jamroom as the admin...then click the "Documents" button on the top left

You will see an link regarding themes. From here on in, you should have some idea how HTML works...

It would be good to read everything you can there, and get familiar with the variables available.

Also, there is a theme that you can download and install that will just dump all available information so you can see what it does

After that, try modifying one of the existing themes so you can see how things are organized...and it will suddenly all become clear

If you try to just dive right in, it will cause you a headache most likely

When all else fails, there's always a nice community here to offer help and support

Cheers!


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[musicguy]

I appreciate the nudge in the right direction.

I have a feeling I will be corresponding a lot more with some of the talented folks in the jamroom community.

[rekrapt]

Definitely got to know HTML... especially so you don't break the tables since the templates are just little pieces of the pages that are created. Changing backgound colors and stuff can be done pretty easily by editing the style sheet associated with the theme. That how I was able to put gradient backgrounds in the table elements associated with my theme edit.

Good luck!
Tom
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[jagor]

hi

I have a problem dealing with the templates.
What if i want to put the songs templates to the left or to the right of my artist image and information.
In the jamroom moss, infrared and cobalt themes the song templates are visualazed under the band info.
I wonder how to do it with my basic experiance for php and template design at all.

Must I do it by including the song templates in to my music_header.tpl by creating table column ?

I tryed it this way:

<?php include "http://www.mysite.com/jamroom/themes/jm_moss_2.2/song_header.php"; ?>

in to the music_header.tpl

and it not works fine because im able to see only the placeholders for the band name, image and songs without actually getting the info from the script.

Please could anybody point me the right direction!!

10x

jagor

[rekrapt]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Maybe this thread can help?

http://www.jamroom.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2196&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0


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[jagor]

hi rekrapt!

thank you for the post. I'v already seen this topic but what i want to do is here: http://www.hxcmp3.com/bands/6138/

i paste the code from this page in to dreamweaver (i hope the autors wont be angry with me:)) and i'v notice that they use:

<div id=image>..bandimage..</div>
<div id=info>..bandinfo..</div>
<div id=songs>..bandsongs..</div>
etc.

and assign a CSS styles for every <div id=>. By using "float: left" and
"width: px" so they separate the space in to columns. That is preaty easy to understand. I will try to do it for my site now.

There is somethig i can't understand: are they using only one php document for the whole artist information to be displayed, or they are using the original themplates ordering system of jamroom with calling the whole set of .tpl files from the theme/theme.cfg and theme/song.cfg.

If i want to use only one .tpl file how this will work for generating the artist thems htmls.... i will try to do the id and style floating thing with the existing templates first and will post my experience here )

10x

jagor

[rekrapt]

That would be a question for Brian or DJ. I believe that the way a page is built from tpl files is coded into JamRoom and you have to use the tpl file structure as-is.

But, I could easily be wrong.

Brian? DJ?


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[djmerlyn]

What I think you do, is build all of your templates, then create a master template like index.php

index.php will do php includes of all of the other templates into 1 page. Now everything is on one page.

Hope that helps~

Cheers!


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