Forum Activity for @michael

Smarty Language Modifiers

Jamroom Developers

If the original input was 'About' but you actually got 'ABOUT' then its likely that CSS is effecting that change too. Perhaps look for the base cause and remove that instead of forcing another layer of CSS changes onto it.

CSS: "Make all of these all-caps, then make this one capitalize." vs "(do nothing, use original input)"

Pinterest-like (masonry) display for images (and possibly video)

Design and Skin Customization

Nothing done in default skins as far as Im aware. To replicate it, you'd need a list of images:

Docs: "{jrCore_list}"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/module-developer-guide/89/jrcore-list

and a jquery script to arrange those images similar to pinterest's layout:
http://www.jqueryscript.net/tags.php?/Pinterest/

Firefox Error while downloading audio

Design and Skin Customization

Really need some steps to see it happening to offer any useful advice.

Recurring events have no image

Suggestions

The "recurring event" option is only available on the CREATE form, not the UPDATE form, so there is no way to turn a one time event into a recurring event.

Guestbook entries not showing

Using Jamroom

In the jrGuestBook's item_index.tpl file you'll see this code:
add quota_check=false to it so it becomes

This will be added to the next version of jrGuestBook.

Thanks for finding this.

We need your ratings and reviews!

Announcements

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updated by @michael: 06/30/17 06:31:07PM

Where is CSS code located in a JR site? And related questions

Design and Skin Customization

The question your asking is "What are some web development techniques", there are a lot of them and lots of tools to help.

This is an older video about tools we use:
Development Tools the Jamroom Team uses

They're not the only tools. Each web developer finds different sets of tools that work for them.

Its not our goal to try to train web developers, there are already lots of resources on the web for that, but we do try to help out those interested.

Where is CSS code located in a JR site? And related questions

Design and Skin Customization

There are many ways to work with jamroom because there are multiple layers of over-ride capabilities.

So for web developers who like to work with normal web development techniques, going to look for settings in the ACP to try to change the color of something is not a natural flow for them.

For web developers the way they work with design on the web is through alteration of .css files and an IDE or editor.

The current active skin will have a containing folder /css and all the css files will be contained in that. You can access it via SFTP into your server:

Docs: "Connecting to your server using SFTP"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-hosting/2552/connecting-to-your-server-using-sftp

Then the css will be in:
/skins/(YOUR SKIN)/css/(many files in here).css

In that same skins folder you will find a file called
/skins/(YOUR SKIN)/include.php

which is where you will find the skin_init() function which pulls in all of the .css files that the skin uses, you can add more if needed.

1. skin .tpl files
These are the structure of each page, its made up of a combination of smarty and html.

2. skin_init
This is found in the include.php file for the skin and fires off functions which allow the system to understand what files need to be included in order for the skin to function

3. widgets
These are a different way to create a page, you can use Site Builder and widgets OR a somepage.tpl file to create the page structure. Each widget will have an id which can be targeted by CSS if specialized styling is required for that widget

4. widget ids
CSS can target structure via multiple methods, id's, classes and even by the element name. CSS is a language of styling, so you can say "everything that has a class of blue_thing, make it the color blue" "everything that has the id of some_widget make its corners rounded and give it an orange background"

5. css code
A design language for styling html elements via the use of tags attached to the elements. usually classes

6. html code
The language of the structure of web pages, tells the browser what things need to go on the page.

Invitation only users

Using Jamroom

The Form Designer can be used to add additional fields to forms provided by existing modules:

Docs: "Using the Form Designer"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/1275/using-the-form-designer

Or it can be done programatically in your module by adding it in the "Events and Listeners" system:

Docs: "Events and Listeners"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-developers-guide/1011/events-and-listeners

Guestbook entries not showing

Using Jamroom

What are the steps you use to check? when I login as a normal user and write in the guest book it shows, so don't understand how to setup to investigate this situation.