Skinning PHPLD

**Klaas Koopman** · Dec 11th, 2006, 8:57 am

Hey All,

I'm working on a few projects which involves alot of skinning jobs. Now since I'm young and willing to learn I am trying to do all this by myself. I have learned wordpress and joomla(smallpart) and now I'm looking to skin phpld. I checked the official site and the (few, almost nothing) pages about skinning phpld, even tried to give it a go, but all i got were errors haha.

So is there anyone on this board who knows how to skin them? If so, happen to have a bit of time to help me out with idea's,tips etc?

Thanks ahead!

:sgrin: < I love this one

**Colleen** · Dec 11th, 2006, 9:08 am

What are you editing the tpl files in?

Opening them in some editors can distort the code, then you upload them and they don't work, only edit them in notepad, unless you have something that supports editing tpl files.

I skin phpld, not often, but a few times.

**chovy** · Dec 11th, 2006, 10:28 am

smarty.php.net

**Klaas Koopman** · Dec 11th, 2006, 1:52 pm

Originally Posted by chovy

smarty.php.net

Hey could you perhaps help me out with smarty? It's being a pain in the ass :P What exactly do I do with the files, is it something for on my host (

please don't hit me I really dont understand )

**chovy** · Dec 11th, 2006, 2:07 pm

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/

read the Quickstart section.

**Klaas Koopman** · Dec 11th, 2006, 2:15 pm

Originally Posted by chovy

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/

read the Quickstart section.

Thanks, can be because I'm tired, can be because it's in english ( and i'm tired ) or c. I just don't get it!

What exactly does smarty do ( don't link me to the page that explains it, been there... ) :skiss:

**Colleen** · Dec 11th, 2006, 3:10 pm

You don't need to know a thing about smarty to edit these templates. I don't know anything and still manage to create the themes.

**Richie_Ni** · Dec 11th, 2006, 8:19 pm

Originally Posted by Kalina

What are you editing the tpl files in?

Opening them in some editors can distort the code, then you upload them and they don't work, only edit them in notepad, unless you have something that supports editing tpl files.

I skin phpld, not often, but a few times.

Thanks for the tips,Kalina!

Originally Posted by Kalina

You don't need to know a thing about smarty to edit these templates. I don't know anything and still manage to create the themes.

I agree! You only need to edit the template files,just download some free templates created by others and look into them,you'll get it then.

**Klaas Koopman** · Dec 12th, 2006, 12:21 am

Originally Posted by Richie_Ni

Thanks for the tips,Kalina!

I agree! You only need to edit the template files,just download some free templates created by others and look into them,you'll get it then.

I'll try this again then! :-)