By aeropine on

Hello there,

I'd like to use the Garland theme for all activities/pages for authenticated users, and use a custom theme for anonymous users. I've tried choosing Garland as my admin theme but it only seems to apply to items under the Administer menu - (most of my authenticated users will not be administrators - they'll be authors or editors, so they'll be working primarily with content). How would I go about enabling this? Do I need to hook in somewhere and check for the role?

thanks in advance for any help on this!

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tm commented

Role Theme Switcher

thought there was another one...

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aeropine commented

thanks tm, that looks perfect!

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aeropine commented

Arrgh - I spoke too soon.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or some kind of configuration problem, but I'm getting the following error when I access my site as anonymous (having set the authenticated theme to Garland, and the anonymous theme to Zen):

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _phptemplate_variables() (previously declared in /Users/aeropine/drupal/themes/garland/template.php:58) in /Users/aeropine/drupal/sites/all/themes/zen/template.php on line 59

It seems as though the garland theme's declaration needs to "go away"/descope in order for the zen one to work...

Any ideas much appreciated (including any other ways to achieve this theme-per-role challenge)

Thanks!

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tm commented

http://drupal.org/node/72099

especially in template.php, it is just sooo easy to have duplicated function names. wonder if you have to do that function themename_x thing to make a function theme-specific, similar a theme overrides. if you feel this is a bug, you can open an issue at the project's page.

it would be interesting to see how themegarden does it...

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aeropine commented

Tm - thanks for your advice - I've posted a bug report but no sign of anyone accepting it.

I find it hard to believe that this approach of all authenticated users needing a separate "admin" theme and all anonymous users needing the "public" theme hasn't been tackled and codified somewhere (many times!) - all "publication" sites (newspapers etc.) must use something like this approach. Unfortunately, simply setting the theme based on the URL isn't enough - it's very jarring to be flipped between admin and non-admin themes as you navigate around to create/edit content...

Arrrgghhh - this is is a real showstopper for me... Anybody else any words of wisdom?

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tiutiun commented

Hello, aeropine.

This bug fixed in version 5.x-1.1
Role Theme Switcher didn't treat correctly two or more themes, based on phptemplate engine

You can download new version here:
http://drupal.org/node/197996

Please, let me know, if it is all ok now.

Thank you

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Serj Tiutiun