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Can you add a custom logo to all Themes

Posted by Mark C on March 7, 2009 at 1:46pm

I am trying to add a custom logo to the Dreamy theme - www.contact.ie.

I have unchecked the "Use Default Logo" box.
I have used the "Upload Custom Logo" feature.
I have tried "Path to Custom Logo".

All have failed.
Here is the logo I wish to use: http://www.contact.ie/External/dreamy_logo.png

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The theme has a header

Posted by nevets on March 7, 2009 at 3:48pm

The theme has a header section, what does that part of the page.tpl.php look like. There is no indication it is even trying to output a logo.

This is the Header php code

Posted by Mark C on March 7, 2009 at 4:27pm

<div id="header">
<?php if (strlen($site_name) > 0) { ?><h1 class='site-name'><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><?php print $site_name ?></a></h1><?php } ?>
<?php if (strlen($site_slogan) > 0) { ?><div class='site-slogan'><?php print $site_slogan ?></div><?php } ?>
<?php print $search_box ?>
</div>

Mark C.

From the garland theme the

Posted by nevets on March 7, 2009 at 6:00pm

From the garland theme the page.tpl.php needs something like

            if ($logo) {
              print '<img src="'. check_url($logo) .'" alt="'. $site_title .'" id="logo" />';
            }

for the logo to show.

Div Id Header

Posted by Mark C on March 7, 2009 at 6:08pm

Div id header now looks like this, but still no logo showing:

<div id="header">
<?php if (strlen($site_name) > 0) { ?><h1 class='site-name'><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><?php print $site_name ?></a></h1><?php } ?>
<?php if ($logo) {
              print '<img src="'. check_url($logo) .'" alt="'. $site_title .'" id="logo" />';
            } ?>
<?php if (strlen($site_slogan) > 0) { ?><div class='site-slogan'><?php print $site_slogan ?></div><?php } ?>
<?php print $search_box ?>
</div>

Mark C.

You have your logo path

Posted by nevets on March 7, 2009 at 6:13pm

You have your logo path defined so Drupal thinks it is at /http://www.contact.ie/sites/default/files/dreamy_logo.png So if you uploaded the file maybe files is not writable.

I've made things writeable

Posted by Mark C on March 7, 2009 at 6:32pm

Thanks again for the help.

I've made the files writeable and nothing happened. I've also changed the custom path to:
http://www.contact.ie/External/dreamy_logo.png but still nothing has happened. Do I need to change my php in my header if I'm using the second option.

Mark C.

Mark C.

$base_url on your logo path

Posted by mightypile on August 23, 2010 at 4:15am

I've dealt with this same problem several times.

The issue starts with a theming decision that I find strange, to preface the url to your icon with the $base_url string stored in your settings.php file. If you don't set it, I believe it ends up being a backslash.

So, you can't use a full url for the icon path. I used to try using "http://www.example.com/somelogo.png" and never had any luck. The actual url in the resulting page was "/http://www.example.com/somelogo.png" which screwed up the whole thing. But when I copied the file to my site's files path, I could enter "sites/default/files/somelogo.png" and the logo would show up fine.

I hope this clears things up for you.

-Mike