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You can create your own theme the same way, but instead of creating it in <span style="color: blue">/components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/</span> folder, you should use the [[JReviews Code Overrides]] functionality to place your custom theme outside the '''/com_jreviews''' folder.
 
You can create your own theme the same way, but instead of creating it in <span style="color: blue">/components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/</span> folder, you should use the [[JReviews Code Overrides]] functionality to place your custom theme outside the '''/com_jreviews''' folder.
  
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Creating your own theme is not necessary if you only want to modify several files from the default theme.
 
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Instead, use the [[JReviews Code Overrides]] feature to create a copy of theme files you want to modify outside the '''/com_jreviews''' folder, and those files will be used instead of the ones in /themes/default folder.
 
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After copying the files into /jreviews_overrides folder, you need to click on 'Clear File Registry' link in JReviews Administration.
 
  
  
 
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Revision as of 10:05, 20 August 2010

JReviews uses a php templating system. This means you can mix html with php code, which provides a lot of flexibility to create conditionals and add snippets of php code.


JReviews Themes

JReviews themes are located in this folder:

  • /components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/
  • the theme files have the .thtml extension.

In that folder you'll find several themes:

  • /components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/default/
  • /components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/default_02/
  • /components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/default_dark/ - for using with dark joomla templates


You will notice that /default_02 and /default_dark theme folders contain less files than the /default theme folder.

The /default folder contains all the necessary theme, css and image files, while /default_02 and /default_dark are variations of the default theme and contain only "modified" files and images. Files that don't exist in those folders are used from the /default theme folder.

This is because the /default theme should always be intact to make JReviews upgrades easier.

You can create your own theme the same way, but instead of creating it in /components/com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/ folder, you should use the JReviews Code Overrides functionality to place your custom theme outside the /com_jreviews folder.

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