rhuk solarflare ii to work with 1.5

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:22 pm

theonion wrote:And also, if you click and hold on the left hand buttons, the area that it selects is much bigger than the button... how?

Don't understand what you are trying tom say here!

And why would yo want to click on and hold them anyway

Bacon Butty · Post by **Bacon Butty** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:49 pm

I am testing out Joomla and would like to try this skin but I am struggling.

I cant get the top horizontal menu to look right even after following instructions in this thread.

I gave up trying to get the right columns to fit correctly so just disabled them.

Any help appreciated

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:32 pm

If possible suggest you use the Firefox browser with either the Web Developer and/or Firebug plugins installed and take a look at the CSS and compare it to that used in the template reference site at http://rc.hrpr.com.

Also, you might want to double-check your module configurations, as the Joomla! 1.5 module and menu suffix defaults are different than those in Joomla! 1.0.x.

theonion · Post by **theonion** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:36 am

Re the simple image gallery IE syntax errors, I have tried the developer's forum and his e-mail, and he just isn't responding... so if anyone can suggest anything that would be amazing. The site is http://www.arden-theatre.com/joomla, and if you click on any of the 'Production' links, you'll see the syntax error if you're viewing in IE.

I have some other odd questions to ask:

1) Would it be possible to invert the positions of the 'Latest News' 'Popular' section with the 'Welcome to the Arden Theatre Company' on the front page, so that the 'Popular' and 'Latest News' links were underneath, not above the content?

2) When clicking on any of the production posters on the front page, the 'main menu' ALWAYS displays 'Julius Caesar' as selected, no matter which production is chosen. How can I set each page to display the right play, and not 'Julius Caesar'?

3) In any of the production pages, selecting the 'Poster' tab causes the title image of the page to jump to the right, and then selecting any other tab causes it to jump back again... how can I alter this?

4) And lastly, for the CONTACT and FAQ pages, how can I insert an indent on the page so that the text doesn't begin square up against the left margin? And how can I make the text size bigger - which bit of the template is the relevant bit?

Thanks in advance for your ongoign help with it all!

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:03 pm

1) Would it be possible to invert the positions of the 'Latest News' 'Popular' section with the 'Welcome to the Arden Theatre Company' on the front page, so that the 'Popular' and 'Latest News' links were underneath, not above the content?

Try replacing the template's index.php file with the following (make sure you make a backup copy of old index.php first!):

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<?php defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access'); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" dir="<?php echo $this->direction; ?>" >
<head>
<jdoc:include type="head" />
<!-- Main stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl; ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template; ?>/css/template_css.css" />

<?php
//script to determine which div setup for layout to use based on module configuration
$collspan_offset = ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) + $this->countModules( 'user2' ) ) ? 2 : 1;
$user1 = 0;
$user2 = 0;
$colspan = 0;
$right = 0;
// banner combos

//user1 combos
if ( $this->countModules( 'user1' ) + $this->countModules( 'user2' ) == 2) {
	$user1 = 2;
	$user2 = 2;
	$colspan = 3;
} elseif ( $this->countModules( 'user1' ) == 1 ) {
	$user1 = 1;
	$colspan = 1;
} elseif ( $this->countModules( 'user2' ) == 1 ) {
	$user2 = 1;
	$colspan = 1;
}

//right based combos
if ($this->countModules('right')) {
    $right = 1;
}	
	
?>

</head>
<div align="center">
	<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="808">
		<tr>
			<td class="outline">
		  		<div id="pathway_outer">
		  		  <div id="pathway_inner">
		    			<div id="pathway_text">
		    			<jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumb" style="none" /> 
		    			</div>
		    			<div id="buttons">
						<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user3" style="table" />
		    		    </div>
		    		</div>
		  		</div>
		  		<div id="search_outer">
		  		  <div id="search_inner">
		  		  <jdoc:include type="modules" name="user4" style="table" />
		  		  </div>
		  		</div>
		  		<div class="clr"></div>
		  		<div id="header_outer">
		  			<div id="header">
		  			&nbsp;
		  			</div>
		  			<div id="top_outer">
					    <div id="top_inner">
		    			<?php if ( $this->countModules( 'top' ) ) { ?>
		      				<jdoc:include type="modules" name="top" style="table" />
		      		    <?php } else { ?>      		
		      				<span class="error">Top Module Empty</span>
		      				<?php } ?>		      		
					     </div>
		    	  </div>
		  		</div>
		  		<div id="left_outer">
		  			<div id="left_inner">
		  			<jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="table" />
		  			</div>
		  		</div>
		  		<div id="content_outer">
		   			<div id="content_inner">
		   			<?php
		  			if ( $this->countModules ('banner') ) {
		  				?>
		  				<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="content_table">
			   			<tr>
								<td>
									<div id="banner_inner">
									<img src="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/images/advertisement.png" alt="advertisement.png, 0 kB" title="advertisement" border="0" height="8" width="468"/><br />
			  					    <jdoc:include type="modules" name="banner" style="table" />
								    <br />
									</div>
									<div id="poweredby_inner">
										<img src="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/images/powered_by.png" alt="powered_by.png, 1 kB" title="powered_by" border="0" height="68" width="165"/><br />	
									</div>
								</td>
							</tr>
							</table>
							<?php
		  			}
		  			?>
		  			<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="content_table">
						<tr valign="top">
							<td width="99%">
								<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="content_table">
								<tr>
									<td colspan="<?php echo $colspan; ?>" class="body_outer">
				  					 <jdoc:include type="component" />
									</td>
								</tr>
								<?php 
								if ($colspan > 0) {
								?>
									<tr valign="top">
										<?php
				  					if ( $user1 > 0 ) {
				  						?>
				  						<td width="50%">
				  							<div class="user1_inner">
				  							<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user1" style="table" />
				  							</div>
				  						</td>
				  						<?php
				  					}	
				  					if ( $colspan == 3) {
										 ?>
											<td width="2">
												<img src="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/images/spacer.png" alt="" title="spacer" border="0" height="10" width="2"/>	
											</td>
										<?php
										}
				  					if ( $user2 > 0 ) {
				  						?>
				  						<td width="50%">
				  							<div class="user2_inner">
				  							<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user2" style="table" />
				  							</div>
				  						</td>
				  						<?php
				  					}	
										?>
									</tr>
									<tr>
										<td colspan="<?php echo $colspan; ?>">
											<img src="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/images/spacer.png" alt="" title="spacer" border="0" height="2" width="100"/><br />	
										</td>
									</tr>
									<?php
									}
								?>
							<!--	<tr>
									<td colspan="<?php echo $colspan; ?>" class="body_outer">
				  					 <jdoc:include type="component" />
									</td>
								</tr> -->
								</table>
							
							
							</td>
							<?php
							if ( $right > 0 ) {
		  				?>
		  				<td>
			  				<div id="right_outer">
			  					<div id="right_inner">
			  					<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="table" />
			  					</div>
			  				</div>
		  				</td>
		  				<?php
		  			}
		  			?>
										
						</tr>
						</table>
		  		</div>
		  	</div>
		  </td>
	  </tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div class="credits" align="center">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="footer" style="none" />
</div>
<jdoc:include type="message" />
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="debug" style="none" />
</body>
</html>

2) When clicking on any of the production posters on the front page, the 'main menu' ALWAYS displays 'Julius Caesar' as selected, no matter which production is chosen. How can I set each page to display the right play, and not 'Julius Caesar'?

I don't know what caused this, but the itemids in a number of the URLs associated with the thumbnail images are incorrect. Most are set to 55, which is the itemid of the Julius Caesar menu item...and that is probably why it is selected.

See below for what I believe are the correct itemid settings

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<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=60"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/r3thumb.jpg" border="0" title="Richard III, 2007" hspace="4" vspace="3" width="73" height="103" /></a>

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=57"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/12ththumb.jpg" border="0" title="Twelfth Night, 2006" hspace="4" vspace="3" width="73" height="103" /></a>

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=56"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/totsthumb.jpg" border="0" title="The Taming of the Shrew, 2005" hspace="4" vspace="3" width="73" height="103" /></a>

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=34"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/dreamthumb.jpg" border="0" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2004" hspace="4" vspace="3" width="73" height="103" /></a>

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=55"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/caesathumb.jpg" border="0" title="Julius Caesar, 2003" hspace="4" vspace="3" width="73" height="103" /></a><br /><br />

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=61"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/journeythumb.jpg" border="0" title="Journey's End, 2007" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="73" height="103" /></a>

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/inspectorthumb.jpg" border="0" title="An Inspector Calls, 2006" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="97" height="69" /></a>

<a class="highlightit" href="/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=59"><img src="/joomla/images/gallery/posters/thumbs/xmasthumb.jpg" border="0" title="Two One-Act Plays, 2006" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="72" height="102" /></a>

3) In any of the production pages, selecting the 'Poster' tab causes the title image of the page to jump to the right, and then selecting any other tab causes it to jump back again... how can I alter this?

Looks like you took it out of poster view...

4) And lastly, for the CONTACT and FAQ pages, how can I insert an indent on the page so that the text doesn't begin square up against the left margin? And how can I make the text size bigger - which bit of the template is the relevant bit?

For Contact page, try putting this in the template_css.css files

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div#component-contact {
padding:10px;
font-size:16px; /* note adjust to whatever size you want  */
}

Edit: 1 July 2008 - to theonion...next time you bump something don't be surprised if you get no response. if this was so important to you that you felt obligated to bump it, then you should also feel obligated to check for any responses to your bump within at least 24 hours or so.

You would also be well served to wade through the Joomla! documentation and learn how to solve some of these probems on your own...

theonion · Post by **theonion** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:02 pm

So so so sorry - I can completely see why you're irritated. It's entirely my own fault, but I didn't check because I stupidly (and wrongly) assumed I'd checked the 'e-mail notification' box when I hadn't: and (I'm based in the UK) due to some storms I've been without internet access this week until today. You've been really helpful so far - adn I do appreciate it. I do apologise.

I've taken your advice and - after a bit of searching - found some solutions to things myself, but one thing I can't find anywhere in the documentation for modules is how you get a module to display when no menu item is selected (for example, when you load the initial page of a website - when there is no menu item selected). On the Arden site, for example, if you click on a story in 'Latest news' when you've typed in http://www.arden-theatre.com/joomla, most modules don't display. If you click on 'Home' in the Main Menu and the click on the story again, they do display.

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:15 am

In the template's index.php file, try changing this:

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if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {
	$right = 1;
}

to this:

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if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) ) {
	$right = 1;
}

theonion · Post by **theonion** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:26 pm

I can't actually see the section you describe in the code: only this

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//user1 combos
if ( $this->countModules( 'user1' ) + $this->countModules( 'user2' ) == 2) {
	$user1 = 2;
	$user2 = 2;
	$colspan = 3;
} elseif ( $this->countModules( 'user1' ) == 1 ) {
	$user1 = 1;
	$colspan = 1;
} elseif ( $this->countModules( 'user2' ) == 1 ) {
	$user2 = 1;
	$colspan = 1;
}

//right based combos
if ($this->countModules('right')) {
    $right = 1;
}

So it sort of looks like it's been changed already...

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:38 pm

Ok...let me take another look and see if I can figure it out. This upcoming weekend is a holiday here in the "Colonies" so I will probably not be getting back to you on this for a while....

In meantime, try doing the opposite, i.e. , change it to:

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if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {
   $right = 1;
}

This is what the template at my reference site (http://rc.hrpr.com) has in index.php and it appears to be working as expected...

theonion · Post by **theonion** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:29 am

Tried it - and no joy, I'm afraid. Still the same. Happy 4th of July!

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:39 pm

Try this...

Go to Extensions > Module Mamager > Latest News and in the Menu Assignment Panel, make sure the Menus All radio button is selected.

theonion · Post by **theonion** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:35 pm

....But I only need the 'Latest News' mod to appear on the homepage, not to show up on every page. And - please do correct me if I've got this wrong, I might have done - isn't that what will then happen?

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:14 pm

theonion wrote:....But I only need the 'Latest News' mod to appear on the homepage, not to show up on every page. And - please do correct me if I've got this wrong, I might have done - isn't that what will then happen?

Guesds I misundrstood what you were asking. So, go to Extensions > Module Mamager > Latest News and in the Menu Assignment Panel, make sure the Select radio button is schecked and select only the home page.

theonion2 · Post by **theonion2** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:35 pm

Yes they are... I suppose ultimately what I'm asking is if I can assign the links underneath 'Latest News' the item ID of 'Home' rather than no item ID at all...

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:24 pm

Don't really know. And don't really understand why the "Latest News" module is acting differently than than the "Popular" module. Seems like there has got to be something different between their configurations...

theonion2 · Post by **theonion2** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:35 pm

Logically, might the difference be that the Popular module is linking to pages which have 'Item IDs' because they're in the Main Menu. The 'Latest News' items, however, have no Item IDs, and aren't in the Main Menu... ?

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:20 pm

Yes. that's probably it. What you might try is to go ahead and make menu entries for items you put in latest news but do no activate them. i.e., in the menu manager, set published to off.

theonion2 · Post by **theonion2** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:49 pm

Ah. Well I tried that but the problem is I can't assign modules to a menu item that isn't published. I tried publishing it, assigning the modules, and then unpublishing it, but it didn't work - modules came and went... how frustrating. Surely there must be a way.

The news displays correctly when you click on 'Home' and then click the link. It doesn't if you click the link having navigated straight to the frontpage. The difference is between:

http://www.arden-theatre.com/joomla (doesn't work)
http://www.arden-theatre.com/joomla/ind ... e&Itemid=1 (works)

So is there a way to add the itemid=1 automatically into the news module?

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:36 pm

I set up a test at http://rc.hrpr.com and could not duplicate the problem. What I did was generate a new article named "Latest news test' and assigned it to Section = News and Category = Latest. And did not make it a main menu item.

It displays the same in both cases:
Case 1, Step 1 - Inital site load:

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http://rc.hrpr.com

Case 1, Step 2 - Click on Latest News > Latest news test

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http://rc.hrpr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:latest-news-test&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Case 2, Step 1 - Click on Main Menu > Home:

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http://rc.hrpr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

Case 2, Step 2 - Click on Latest News > Latest News test:

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http://rc.hrpr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:latest-news-test&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

sirknight115 · Post by **sirknight115** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:38 am

Where can I download solarflare ii ? I went to the link in the first posting but it display page cannot be found? this happen when the link took me to the page of solarflare ii but when I try to download the template I get this error. Is there a place where I can download the template?

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:07 pm

Try this url...and the link at http://rc.hrpr.com has been fixed too...should not throw a 404 page at you now!

http://portal.hrpr.com/joomla-templates

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:37 pm

@ theonion...

Can you tell me what versions of Joomla, PHP and Mysql you are using?

sirknight115 · Post by **sirknight115** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:17 am

Hello HarryB,
Thanks for the link! are you asking me what version am I running?

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:57 am

No, I was asking another useer called "theonion2" as he was having a problem that may be resolved by updatng to Joomla! 1.5.4.

sirknight115 · Post by **sirknight115** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:46 am

Hello HarryB,
I was wondering if I can put the Advertisement back in the middle like the old solarflare? where you can see the tab that said Advertisement and the ad's? Is there any way I can do this?
Thank You

theonion2 · Post by **theonion2** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:57 pm

Hey HarryB

Sorry I've been quiet for a little while - was waiting for my hosters to get back to me.

Joomla version is 1.5.3 - this I have control over.

PHP version 5.2.3 on a Linux server.

MySQL8 we are using version 4.1.15.

And neither of the two above can I update etc. Would be great to have a solution to this problem (note the website has now just moved to the domain arden-theatre.com).

Cheers!

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:41 pm

theonion2 wrote:Hey HarryB

Sorry I've been quiet for a little while - was waiting for my hosters to get back to me.

Joomla version is 1.5.3 - this I have control over.

PHP version 5.2.3 on a Linux server.

MySQL8 we are using version 4.1.15.

And neither of the two above can I update etc. Would be great to have a solution to this problem (note the website has now just moved to the domain arden-theatre.com).

Cheers!

Thanks...

Reason I asked is that there is an issue (bug) in 1.5.3 that caused problems similar to yours....see this thread:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=304741

Unfortunately, by time I got around to testing it, I had upgraded my test site to 1.5.4.

Even more unfortunately, 1.5.4, while fixing this and a number of other lingering bugs, introduced several new ones. Version 1.5.5 is due out in a couple of weeks, so I'd advise you to wait until then to see if it fixes your problem...unless you have a test site you can use in interim.

regards...HarryB

HarryB · Post by **HarryB** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:30 am

sirknight115 wrote:Hello HarryB,
I was wondering if I can put the Advertisement back in the middle like the old solarflare? where you can see the tab that said Advertisement and the ad's? Is there any way I can do this?
Thank You

Here is a copy of the original solarflare template for Joomla! 1.0.x that I converted. Assume the functionality you are talking about is perhaps in the index.php file...and maybe you can copy and update those parts you need.

rhuksolarflareii.zip

sirknight115 · Post by **sirknight115** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:53 am

Hello HarryB,
I have only one problem! I don't know what to be looking for? I have never done any webpage before but the only thing I can do is follow instructions. I try to look at the coding but what am I looking for? This is my problem? I have try to do this myself using firebug to see if I can copy and paste? But I don’t understand if I need to make a module or just move the footer to the middle? Because the footer has the banner at the bottom of the webpage. Could you give me a idea on what to look for? Sorry for all the trouble!
Thank You

sirknight115 · Post by **sirknight115** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:43 am

Hello HarryB,
I think I might be fixing my problem?? If you look under "Extensions" -- "Module Manager" -- Then you find the module call "Banner" you then click on "edit" on the top right hands side. Once you are in this module you can position the banner by click on down arrow. So I put the position to the "banners" which puts the banner right in the middle above the content. Now I have to find out how can I adjusted the height and width because the banner looks to big! Could you check this out for me? and is if you get any ideas? sorry for all the trouble! I will still work on this and let you know if I get anywhere.
Thank You

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