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[Alk]

Hi Visiblesoul,
I'll get back to you on that hack when I have some time again to play with it. Thanks for your help with that.

If you take a look at this site: http://www.kruaklaibaan.com/ the mkportal skin is set to "forum". For some reason though, instead of having the usual gradients on the tables it is blank! Now, in the forum skin, the logostrip is indeed blank, and so is the row 2, 4 etc. but apart from effecting the background of the mkportal logostrip, why is the rest blank?
This isn't the first time it has happened on an mkportal installation so I wonder if you know why and how to solve it please?
Thanks!

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

If you take a look at this site: http://www.kruaklaibaan.com/ the mkportal skin is set to "forum". For some reason though, instead of having the usual gradients on the tables it is blank! Now, in the forum skin, the logostrip is indeed blank, and so is the row 2, 4 etc. but apart from effecting the background of the mkportal logostrip, why is the rest blank?
This isn't the first time it has happened on an mkportal installation so I wonder if you know why and how to solve it please?
Thanks!

Interesting. I haven't seen that issue before. MKPortal forum skin importing was not designed to work with template images hosted on a remote server.

Try this...

FIND in mkportal/include/IPB13/ipb13_board_functions.php (function import_css):

		//adjust images path
		$css = str_replace( "url(", "url(".$mklib->siteurl."/".$mklib->forumpath."/", $css);

REPLACE WITH:

		//adjust images path
		//$css = str_replace( "url(", "url(".$mklib->siteurl."/".$mklib->forumpath."/", $css);

See if that helps.

-=DKC=-

[Alk]

visiblesoul said:

MKPortal forum skin importing was not designed to work with template images hosted on a remote server.

That explains why I see it so often.

Your solution works a treat, thanks very much!!

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

visiblesoul said:

MKPortal forum skin importing was not designed to work with template images hosted on a remote server.

That explains why I see it so often.

Your solution works a treat, thanks very much!!

Great. Thanks for letting me know it works.

[Alk]

Hey,
I've got another one now
http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com
Do you see that the images from the .tar import on the forum skin are not being imported to the portal?
Here is the code:

		//adjust images path
		$css = str_replace( "url(", "url(".$mklib->siteurl."/".$mklib->forumpath."/", $css);
		$css = str_replace( "<#IMG_DIR#>", $images_url, $css);
		//$css = str_replace ("MKPORTALIMGDIR", "$mklib->images", $css);
		$css = "<style type="text/css">n$cssn</style>n";
		unset($css2);
		return $css;

The wrapper for the skin is standard IPB default.
Do you know what's wrong?
If you need ACP access, let me know
Thanks!

[Zakyn]

Googled my issue and found this.

Anyway, I'm not exactly a CSS/HTML Guy; being helping out my Old School Alumni website.

As above, had an issue with the forum skin not being imported by Mkportal. I kinda mess around a bit and replaced the default logo with something similar from my forum. Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.sjioba.com <==
http://www.sjioba.com/forum <== Forum

Cheers

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

Hey,
I've got another one now
http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com
Do you see that the images from the .tar import on the forum skin are not being imported to the portal?

The wrapper for the skin is standard IPB default.
Do you know what's wrong?

Here is what the import looks like on your portal...

background-image:url(http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com/forum/"style_images/CultIdol-027/med_red_bar.gif");

Notice the quotation mark is out of place. It should look like this...

background-image:url("http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com/forum/style_images/CultIdol-027/med_red_bar.gif");

The issue is that IPB stylesheets do not usually have quotation marks. Usually they look like this...

background-image:url(style_images/CultIdol-027/med_red_bar.gif);

Yours looks something like this...

background-image:url("style_images/CultIdol-027/med_red_bar.gif");

You have 2 choices of how to fix this.

1. Edit the forum stylesheets so that they do not use quotes in the background-image url attributes.

2. If you are not using multiple forum skins then you can simply edit mkportal/include/IPB13/ipb13_board_functions.php

FIND:

		$css = str_replace( "url(", "url(".$mklib->siteurl."/".$mklib->forumpath."/", $css);

REPLACE WITH:

	//$css = str_replace( "url(", "url(".$mklib->siteurl."/".$mklib->forumpath."/", $css);
	$css = str_replace( "url("", "url("".$mklib->siteurl."/".$mklib->forumpath."/", $css);

[visiblesoul]

Zakyn said:

Googled my issue and found this.

Anyway, I'm not exactly a CSS/HTML Guy; being helping out my Old School Alumni website.

As above, had an issue with the forum skin not being imported by Mkportal. I kinda mess around a bit and replaced the default logo with something similar from my forum. Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.sjioba.com <==
http://www.sjioba.com/forum <== Forum

Cheers

Welcome Zakyn. I looked at your portal. It looks pretty good. Exactly what do you want to change about it?

-=DKC=-

[Zakyn]

Thanks for the compliment.

Actually, what I would like is for the forum skin to be used for the front portal part.

For now, once you login to the portal, the skin changes to the default blue skin of Mkportal etc (except for the header/logo image which I changed)

[Alk]

Thanks VisibleSoul for your reply. I edited the CSS so that all style_image entries don't have the quotes around them anymore but it doesn't seem to have worked.

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

Thanks VisibleSoul for your reply. I edited the CSS so that all style_image entries don't have the quotes around them anymore but it doesn't seem to have worked.

What did you edit, the cached css file or the database? Either way you will need to synchronize the cache with the database after you make the changes.

[Alk]

visiblesoul said:

Alk said:

Thanks VisibleSoul for your reply. I edited the CSS so that all style_image entries don't have the quotes around them anymore but it doesn't seem to have worked.

What did you edit, the cached css file or the database? Either way you will need to synchronize the cache with the database after you make the changes.

I did it in the ACP and in the header it said "Stylesheet updated : Cache file updated"? :|

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

I did it in the ACP and in the header it said "Stylesheet updated : Cache file updated"? :|

I looked at your site. The import is working. But there are missing images in your forum skin's image folder.

You can see this image in your portal calendar block...
http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com/forum/...med_red_bar.gif

But these images are missing. That is why the import does not seem to be working. But it is.
http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com/forum/...dol-027/tmg.gif
http://www.bloodshotmusicforums.com/forum/...7/logo_back.gif

[Alk]

So essentially a poorly made skin? :|
Thanks for your help

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

So essentially a poorly made skin? :|
Thanks for your help

Well it looks like a nice skin. There are some modifications you can make if you want the portal to look better. I will try to remember to post them tomorrow. I need to sleep now.

-=DKC=-

[visiblesoul]

Alk said:

So essentially a poorly made skin? :|
Thanks for your help

I looked at the forum skin more closely and the issue is that the skin images are hardcoded into the html instead of being in the stylesheet. This type of skin really won't import into the Portal without a little modification. You could make a custom portal template pretty easily. I can tell you what changes I would make if you like. If you want to have multiple skins then the modification would be a little harder.