Changing and editing a template not working

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Hello All!

I have a problem changing the phorum template. The documentation is short and not too helpful.
I created a new template directory.
Copied the full content from an existing template (emerald).
Changed the info.php as required.
In admin I selected the new template.

I changed the css.tpl -> nothing! The changes are not visible!
I changed the settings.tpl -> still nothing.
/I changed body color, image paths, commented out lines from css doesn't matter what I do, the result is invisible)

I turned off the cache - nothing.
I purged the cache - nothing.

Well, it would be nice to post some little tutorial on that. I don't know where to go.

Please help!

If you change CSS code, without the changes being visible in the front end, you are not using that template for the thing that you are looking at.

Note that you can change the template for various levels in Phorum. The default template (the one that you configure in the default forum settings) will be used for the index page.

For the forums, you can either inherit the default settings or configure a different template. So if you are looking at a specific forum and not the index page, then check out the settings of the forum that you are looking at. Make sure that your customized template is selected for that forum as well.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Please also be sure to do a hard refresh of your browser (often Ctrl-F5) to be sure that the browser has not cached the page content. This is especially important with CSS changes.

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Joe Curia (aka Azumandias)
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Thank you Maurice and Joe!

The solution was the Ctrl-F5 as Joe suggested. Thanks!

{! -- Logo size (images/logo.png). Update this if you replace the logo.png -- }
{VAR logo_width "100"}
{VAR logo_height "1000"}

how come it does not change? am i lacking something?

maybe you are editing the wrong template? tried to clear the cache through the admin?

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Thomas Seifert

what is want is to change the color of the template emerald (inc. in the package) and how do i change the background? i have a .jpg file where am i going to place it?

how can i re-size my logo? thanks.

how can i apply all the themes? it seems that the themes doesn't work it only works in the main site but when i browse to other forum/folder it goes back to emerald .tpl

because you didn't select your custom template for the given forum. there is a template setting in each forum's settings.

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Thomas Seifert

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\forum.ciit\index.php:1) in C:\xampp\htdocs\forum.ciit\include\api\user.php on line 2636

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\forum.ciit\index.php:1) in C:\xampp\htdocs\forum.ciit\include\api\user.php on line 2640

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\forum.ciit\index.php:1) in C:\Windows\Temp\tpl-maidens-header-fa3934a643de5e3d180c6e29990ea056.php-stage2 on line 5

at first there are no errors, what could be the problem?