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[free] Auto Themed backgrounds for season holidays
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- Adamck
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Decided to be nice... and give some images/code ive used for seasonal holiday backgrounds.
The code will set the neccessary background for the entire month of the holiday (i.e halloween bg for all of october)
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I used this on the SolarSentinal template
the default in template.css isbody.bg-grey #page-bg {background: #ccc url(../images/background/grey/page-bg.png) 0 0 repeat-x;}
I added a custom php module (see www.fijiwebdesign.com/portfolio/joomla-php-module-mod_php.html )
Create a new php module and add
<?php $d=date("m"); if ($d=="10") { ?> <style> body.bg-grey #page-bg {background: #000 url(./images/halloween.png) 0 0 repeat-x;} </style> <?php } else if ($d=="12") { ?> <style> body.bg-grey #page-bg {background: #fff url(./images/xmas.png) 0 0 repeat-x;} </style> <?php } else if ($d=="04") { ?> <style> body.bg-grey #page-bg {background: #a2cb4e url(./images/easter.png) 0 0 repeat-x;} </style> <?php } ?>
Obviously edit the <style> to match the bg css on your template.
I have attached the images needed, pop them into your root>images folder.
Not world beating graphics or coding but its simple and works
YOOholidays extension didnt work for me as i think the template has too much javascript in it already and it conflicted, also i HATE annoying flying javascript graphics lol
Hope you enjoy, if you improve it in any way let me know!! - Kiss my RSS
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- Robert D. Wagers
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- Robert D. Wagers
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I set the Halloweeen BG as my puters desktop. It's very stretched-out but love the festive feel it gives!
Thanks!
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- Adamck
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Heres a large version of that halloween wallpaper.
img.wallpaperstock.net:81/halloween-nigh...rs_922_1600x1200.jpg - Kiss my RSS
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Awesome!
Thanks - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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- Karl Knight
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Looks great well done
could you explain how you set the module, I've installed it but cant it ?
also how did you add the style to the template please.
karl
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- Jason Kopacko
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I like it.
I found an old 1.5 template that changed the background based on time of day. I'd love to get one like that now! - Thank you,
Jason
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- Adamck
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You can do the same thing as above for times of the day.
In fact you could be really clever and use opacity of generate a colour using time and math or something.
You can get the server or local time using php and then you just setting a CSS rule.
As your using PHP you could set a dynamic css rule that changes as the time does.
rough non tested example:<?php // get current hour of day in 24H format (example 23) $hour = date("G"); // see if its between 4am and 10pm if ($hour >=4 && $hour <=10){ ?> <style> body.bg-grey #page-bg {background: #0090ff;} </style> <?php } else { ?> <style> body.bg-grey #page-bg {background: #00233e;} </style> <?php } ?> - Kiss my RSS
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- Lady R
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Yes nice but why you do all this caos for this?
You can just set as background image the php file ( background: url(/background.php) )
then in the php file write:
<?php $d = date("m"); switch($d) { case 10: $url = "./images/halloween.jpg"; break; case 12: $url = "./images/xmas.jpg"; break; case 04: $url = "./images/easter.jpg"; break; default: $url = "./images/default.jpg"; } Header('Content-Type: image/jpeg'); readfile($url); ?>
and all is done
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