Adding Extra Configuration Options for a Theme

By bradlis7 on 16 Feb 2006 at 16:21 UTC

I'm doing a PHPTemplate theme, and I was wondering if there was any way to add your own options to admin->themes->configure->*theme_name_here*?

My theme can support multiple colors, and instead of including 5 themes, and limiting it to that, I'd like to provide the user text boxes to change the colors manually, and maybe provide some suggestions.

I looked at Making additional variable availables to your templates, but I don't think that's what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance.

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interested too

doq commented 16 February 2006 at 17:22

interested too

I can see why not, but would be useful

bradlis7 commented 17 February 2006 at 16:57

I can see reasons for this not to be useful. For one, most people are just going to go to the global theme settings to change the settings.

I've tried looking at the phpTemplate code itself, but I can't tell what would need to be overridden in order to do this.

Is there a theme out there that successfully does this?

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I had resolved this

oscnet commented 4 April 2006 at 02:48

I had resolved this ,and worked good for my drupal website.
first patch system.module

--- system.module	28 Mar 2006 01:45:41 -0000	1.300
+++ system.module	31 Mar 2006 15:13:20 -0000
@@ -1028,6 +1028,7 @@
  * Menu callback; display theme configuration for entire site and individual themes.
  */
 function system_theme_settings($key = '') {
+  init_theme();
   $directory_path = file_directory_path();
   file_check_directory($directory_path, FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY, 'file_directory_path');

then in YourThemeName's template.php file add a function phptemplate_settings()

function phptemplate_settings(){
    $settings = variable_get( 'theme_YourThemeName_settings', array());   
    $form['foo'] = array('#type'=>'textfield','#default_value'=>$settings['foo']);
    return $form;
}

you can get the config value with

  $settings = variable_get( 'theme_YourThemeName_settings', array());

download patch: http://drupal.org/node/56713

Quick question

Heine commented 4 April 2006 at 03:02

I recently ran into some trouble with theme_settings (http://drupal.org/node/45300#comment-86446), although calling init_theme(), itself or via theme() seemed to solve the problem, it actually didn't (http://drupal.org/node/45300#comment-86478). I haven't tested your patch, but does it also work when your theme is not the active theme? Say bluemarine is active and you're accessing the settings of YourThemeName?

edited to add: I see you also resorted to fetch all the settings with $settings = variable_get( 'theme_esjing_settings', array()); That should prevent the issue above.
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