My colleague, Paul Nicholls, has added another option to Decaf theme to hide navigation block. Moodle awesome bar will have both navigation and settings block options display on top of the page, having this option available for users will add some flexibilty for people who might used to default Moodle 2.0 interface.
I'll update my Moodle theme contrib on moodle.org, you may also download decaf theme from my blog.
Hi Lei,
Download link in the blog is not working. It is throwing up a file not found error.
- Ganesh
Thanks, Ganesh. I updated file link but forgot to clear the cache on my website. It should works now.
-Lei
Thanks Lei. Downloaded the theme. Very nice!
- Ganesh
Hi Lei, this theme looks fantastic - exactly what I'm looking for. There are just a couple of problems that are appearing on my test site - I'm not sure if it's a problem with my configuration or something else...
I get the error "Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: block_manager has not yet loaded the blocks, to it is too soon to request the information you asked for." when I enable the theme.
The menu also displays in the wrong place on some of the pages, as in the attached screenshot. This appears to happen on all pages that don't have a block on the right hand side (e.g. calendar).
Any suggestions welcome!
Same problem here:
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: block_manager has not yet loaded the blocks, to it is too soon to request the information you asked for.
and same display problem as mentioned by Ben (menu covering page display)
Thanks, Dietmar.
I am going to release an update soon with a fix for this style issue and along with other changes.
Thanks Mary for your advice, I've removed the Mac hidden files from the zip file, I'll try to remember that next time when I release new updates
-Lei
Ben, Joseph
I have just released a new version that fixed both issues, please give it another go
Note: Only tested on Moodle 2.0 RC2 (Build: 20101117).
Hi Lei,
Now that problem is fixed the theme looks fantastic! I would love to know how to adapt the menu in a theme I'm creating. The fact you have managed to style them custommenu and use the same content but not rely on the YUI js is facinating! How is it done? I noticed a lot of stuff to do with the menus in renderers.php, so I am gathering it's that which is making the menu work.
I've approved the theme again by the way...after the changes you made, but I noticed the MAC files are still there! LOL
Mary
EDIT: I just remembered when viewing the theme I got this message in the top right sideblock:
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\wamp\www\moodle\theme\decaf\renderers.php on line 203
Does this make sense?
Hi Mary,
As you suspected, the theme makes use of custom renderers to achieve the dropdown menu (and hiding the Settings and Navigation blocks, if you choose to do so). It shouldn't be too hard to work it into your own theme - in fact, Lei and I have built two themes with the dropdown menu (Decaf plus a branded theme for use here at the University of Canterbury). Let us know how you get on - we'd love to see more themes employing this kind of menu
As for the message you're getting, do you have any custom (i.e. non-core) blocks in use? Looking at the code, it's probably either a block that doesn't have a "class" attribute (which seems unlikely), or your Decaf theme settings haven't been saved properly - so that's another thing to try (just to to Site Administration -> Appearance -> Themes -> Decaf and save your settings, and then maybe clear Moodle's caches under Site Administration -> Navigation -> Purge all caches). Let us know if you still get this error after that, and we'll take it from there...
Cheers,
Paul
Like Paul mentioned you might have some of old theme cached in your moodle installation, the other alternative way of prevent this happened again is insert the following line into your config file,
// Prevent theme caching
$CFG->themerev = -1; // NOT FOR PRODUCTION SERVERS!
this especially useful if you're developing/testing themes.
Again, sorry about the Mac hidden files in the theme package. My download link on my blog has a cache system to speed page loading up, I have disabled it to prevent it happen again. You might download the file before I had it turn off, just try download it again, let me know if you still having trouble.
-Lei
Hi Lei,
With some limited testing, that is fixed and looks great. Thanks again - this is the best theme I can find on here.
Ben
Hi Lei,
i purged all caches, but it not ok.
Can your help me?
Thank alot,
Hello,
i just installed Moodle using CVS (Latest_Weekly) and I get only an empty page after selecting the Decaf-Skin.
Any hint, where to look?
Thank you, Thomas
Turn DEBUGGING ON and then post any ERROR messages you get.
Thanks
Mary.
ok, after turning on debugging, i get many blocks of the following:
enableavailability option was changed; rebuilding cache for course 32
* line 3112 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to debugging()
* line 1368 of /lib/navigationlib.php: call to get_fast_modinfo()
* line 47 of /course/format/topics/lib.php: call to global_navigation->load_generic_course_sections()
* line 1340 of /lib/navigationlib.php: call to callback_topics_load_content()
* line 242 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to global_navigation->load_course_sections()
* line 200 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to decaf_expand_navigation->initialise()
* line 60 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to decaf_expand_navigation->__construct()
* line 65 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to decaf_topsettings_renderer->navigation_node()
* line 65 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to decaf_topsettings_renderer->navigation_node()
* line 67 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to decaf_topsettings_renderer->navigation_node()
* line 27 of /theme/decaf/lib.php: call to decaf_topsettings_renderer->navigation_node()
* line 41 of /theme/decaf/layout/general.php: call to decaf_topsettings_renderer->navigation_tree()
* line 627 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
* line 585 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
* line 63 of /theme/index.php: call to core_renderer->header()
this line shows up many times:
* line 3115 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to get_fast_modinfo()
this seems to repeat and repeat - so the page never finishes loading.
Hope this helps - many thanks in advance.
thomas
Hi Thomas,
You'll need update your Moodle 2 to the latest version in order to make the error go away.
-Lei
Hi Lei,
after reading the forum I got aware of this solution. We run moodle with the actual weekly-build from the CVS repos.
So the actual "weekly" is not enough? Is it wise to update a production site to anything newer? Or will the necessary updates be included in the next weekly update?
Thomas
If I read your initial post correctly, Thomas, and you did download Moodle via CVS, you can update this every day just by right clicking on the Moodle folder and selecting CVS Update, that's if you are using Tortoise, and of course only if I understood you correctly in the first place!
But if it's on a production site it might be different, but either way you will, more than probable, be aware of this page which explains all.
Cheers
Mary
Hi Thomas,
If I were you I would delete decaf theme from your Moodle 2.0 theme folder and re install it using a fresh download from the Themes Repository HERE.
Then try to select the theme in Theme selector once more. Let me know how you get on.
Mary
Does anyone have a decaf install I could look at, preferably pretty much out of the box, but anything will do.
-Derek
Hopefully you shluld be able to view DECAF theme HERE I'm just uploading a copy to my webserver. Give a few minutes if it does not show first time.
You can download the DECAF theme from HERE
Cheers
Mary
Hmm. Thanks Mary.
An absolutetely wonderful theme - thank you very much.
One question, though: Is there a way to show hidden objects (e.g. course sections) in another color? I've been looking around the CSS files of the theme but wasn't able to find any definition for .hidden, so I added what I could:
.path-course-view .course-content .hidden .left { color:#EEE; }
.path-course-view .course-content .hidden { color:#EEE; }
these dimm the number and the headline of the section, but not the objects in the section.
Thank you very much
Dirk
Dirk,
Try the following line in your css stylesheet:
.course-content ul.topics li.hidden .left{color:#EEE;}
.course-content ul.topics li.hidden .sectionname{color:#EEE;}
.course-content ul.topics li.hidden a.dimmed{color:#EEE;}
I'll include this change in the next release of decaf theme, thanks for your feedback.
Thank you for your help!
I now have the following lines in selected.css:
.path-course-view .dimmed_text img {opacity:0.3;filter: alpha(opacity='30');}
.path-course-view .dimmed img {opacity:0.3;filter: alpha(opacity='30');}
.path-course-view .course-content .hidden { color:#E1E1E1; }
.course-content ul.topics li.hidden .left{color:#EEE;}
.course-content ul.topics li.hidden .sectionname{color:#EEE;}
.course-content ul.topics li.hidden a.dimmed{color:#EEE;}
and they do what they are supposed to do in course-rooms. The setting does not work on the front page of moodle.
Any ideas?
Hi Lei,
Love the way the 'awesomebar' takes the settings and admin menus etc into a horizontal drop down.
is there anyway to integrate the Moodle2 custom menu into the awesomebar menu? I'm on a learning curve with the moodle2 themes - I'm only just starting to look at the renderers etc. - and am happy to have a play if you can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks,
Richard
Think I have managed to achieve this - I have used your awesomebar in a reworking of Mary's Aardvark for Moodle2 for a theme I'm trying to create
<div id="awesomebar">
<?php
$topsettings = new krystle_topsettings_renderer($this->page, null);
echo $topsettings->navigation_tree($this->page->navigation);
echo $custommenu;
echo $topsettings->settings_tree($this->page->settingsnav);
?>
</div>
but although I've managed to adjust the css the way I want it for most things I have one item I haven't been able to locate the css for to correct and wondered if you, or anyone else, might be able to help.
The custom menu item with a submenu (Moodle development) does not left align as all the other items do.
I have tried using Firebug to isolate the css required, and have made sure theme designer mode is on and have cleared all caches but am obviously missing something somewhere.
Thanks
Richard
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your comments. When I original designed Decaf theme, I thought about having custom menus next to other menus. I like to keep things simple and clean, but it's very hard to control how user use your theme, in particular with custom menu, they might put extremely long text in the menu, it's hard to define the width of the menu in your stylesheet unless you know what exactly they will have in the custom menu field.
Back to your css problem, if you could send me a copy of your theme (lei.zhang at canterbury.ac.nz), I'll have a look it for you, it's hard to diagnose css errors from screenshots.
HTH,
Lei
Could anyone please direct me to which file/line I need to edit to float an image(logo) instead of it showing a text version of the site name. The image is 362x77 and i want it to float from left maybe 50px or something like that.
Thank you!
Themes FAQ and CSS FAQ are good starting points
However, to answer your question.
Files needed:
decaf/layout/frontpage.php and decaf/layout/general.php
PHP Code to look for:
(delete the part highlighted in red)
<h1 class="headermain"><?php echo $PAGE->heading ?></h1>
Add Logo place holder:
Add the following HTML code which is highlighted in blue.
<h1 class="headermain"><div id="logo"></div></h1>
You will need to make the same changes to both frontpage.php and general.php. That done the next stage is adding the CSS.
CSS File needed:
decaf/style/core.css
At the end of core.css file add the following CSS mark-up. (Be sure to use a text editor like Notepad as a word processor wont work.)
#logo {float: left; clear: both; width: 362px; height: 77px; position: relative; left: 50px; margin: 0; padding:0; background: url([[pix:theme|logo]]) left top no-repeat;}
Hopefully that should fix it. If you get stuck let me know.
Oh, nearly forgot! be sure there is a logo.png or logo.jpg or logo.gif (matters not what the file type is) in the pix folder of the decaf theme
Cheers
Mary
EDITED: I have just edited this today (12/8/2012) I found 2 typos where I put a colon : instead of a semi-colon ; in the CSS for the logo.
Please accept my apologies if you have had problems with this!
Thank you very much! I did not go the css route and just changed frontpage.php to include
<h1 class="headermain"> <img src="http://192.168.3.161/theme/decaf/pix/toplogo.jpg" style="position:absolute;top:10px;left:10px;"></h1>
and then dropped the image in the pix directory and all works.
Do you think this will work out ok or do you recommend I change the CSS and do it the way as you described?
*********************************** Edited **********************
I went back and redid it the way you described, adding it to the css, and everything is working great.
Thank you again!
Both work, but the better way is via the CSS because inline styles are frowned upon in Moodle!
Thank you for the helpful comments on installing a Logo.
I have attempted to follow the CSS route as commended above but I have been unsuccessful. Upon checking my Front Page using Firefox Web Developer Toolbar I discovered that core.css was not included.
My solution was to include core.css into frontpage.php using an absolute link and also using an absolute link to logo.png in core.css itself.
Can someone please confirm my discovery? Any comments would be appreciated.
Regards
Hi, this didn't work exactly for me for some reason - the CSS and PHP changes were recognised but it didn't seem to recognise the image location ([[pix:theme|logo]]). The image definitely was there, the pix folder is the default one and the CSS appeared correctly in firebug but it wouldn't show the logo.
So I did it this way:
).Hi Mary
I try to put a image on the head of my site.
I made your clear tuto for it but the result is : no image & no text .
Moodle 2.2.3 (Build: 20120514) + theme designer mode : on + empty browser cache.
Favicon do not work too ...
Could you help me please ?
xuse my poor english
jmd
Hello Jean-Marc,
To help you, can I ask some questions:
Lastly, what are you trying to achieve? Do you want the image and the text? Or do you want the image and no text? Where do you want the image to sit (to the left, middle, right)?
Hello
1) Thank @Joseph ! you avoids me the load to copy out your information
2)the tuto : 
3) May be 'option' is better than 'choice':
I would like put image after the text OR under the text .... When I made the tuto the text is erased and the image is not posted.
JMDoucet
Hi JMDoucet
I have just noticed 2 typos in the CSS for the logo in the discussion thread you refer to, it should read...
#logo {float: left; clear: both; width: 362px; height: 77px; position: relative; left: 50px; margin: 0; padding:0; background: url([[pix:theme|logo]]) left top no-repeat;}
Previously I had added a : by mistake! I have corrected it now!
Further to another post by Jean-Marc on the French-speaking forum, I confirm that favicon does not work in the decaf them in Firefox 13. It does work in MSIE 9 and Chrome 20.
Actually, Firefox does not display any favicon, not even the default Moodle icon. If a custom favicon is placed in theme/decaf/pix, it will show up in MSIE 9 and Chrome 20 but not in Firefox. See attached example.
Joseph
For me it seems like I need to not only put the favicon.ico file in the themes/decaf/pix folder, but also in the root of the moodle installation (ie. /var/www/moodle)
I discovered this because in my nginx error log files I get this message:
2012/07/05 09:26:46 [error] 6295#0: *2541 open() "/var/www/moodle/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory)
After copying the favicon.ico file into /var/www/moodle/ and setting the correct permissions, I then purge all cache (Site Administration -> Navigation -> Purge all caches) and then favicon.ico appears to load in all browsers.
Hi Lei, I've been using your theme now for a bit now and it's great. The only thing that isn't quite right is on the grader report (Course Administration > Grades) the top menu / awesome bar doesn't show.
This didn't matter too much until I started adding a header image - but it seems that the grader report doesn't use the general.php layout, so my grader page looks a bit different to the others.
Any ideas, or is it just something wrong with my setup?
Ben,
I had the same problem with one of my themes (krystle) until I realised that the config.php was pointing report style pages at a different layout. On mine I needed to change it to default.php, but if you go into the config.php for decaf and look at what layout the report type pages are being pointed at and change that to the same as the majority of other pages, that may solve the problem.
Richard
Thanks Richard, it works!
I had checked the list on http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Themes_2.0 thinking it must be something like that, but the 'report' layout isn't listed on there. Is there an updated list of layouts somewhere else?
Thanks again for your help.
Ben,
The layouts are created in the theme, so a designer can create as few, or as many, different layouts as they wish/require, so as far as I know there isn't a standard list of layouts.
Richard
There is a report.php in both the base & canvas themes' layout folder. If you look at it there are some special id/class elements added to the divs, which suggests it's made for a specific purpose.
I don't recall anything being mentioned about this in the forums. I was only aware that this report.php had been added to the base theme and canvas themes and is also added to (I think) all the core themes in the Moodle install.
Hope this helps?
Mary
@Ben, @Richard, @Mary,
Thanks. I have released a new version that fixed missing menus in the grader report page.
Cheers,
Lei
Changes approved!
Thanks Lei
Mary
Hi Lei,
Great theme - thanks a lot.
I am trying to replace the H1 text on the header with a png image logo. Can this be done via the custom css? If not - can someone help with the required code changes in the theme files? - 2.0 theme requires a steeper learning curve and I am still struggling.
Thanks,
Amir
Sorry I missed it
Worked like a charm (also needed to clear theme caches of course).
Thanks,
Amir
I wonder if anyone knows where to download this theme from since the link from the Themes section is broken and so is Lei's blog.
This theme looks great!!!!
Hi Omar,
Lei's blog is working OK, but all downloads links are broken.
I've added 2 downloads here for the time being, for Decaf and Decaf-v2 until I can find out what the problem is, and get the links working again.
Hope this is OK?
Mary
Does the TinyMCE do this in everypage or Is it only in Quiz, which is in your example.
To me it looks like a page layout setting which is incorrect, but could also be the Quiz which is forcing a wrong layout.
I'll see if I can replicate this in my server.
Which browser and what resolution were you using in this example?
Mary
But WHAT resolution are you viewing these pages?
TinyMCE works fine in Decaf theme on my version of Moodle. I even set up a Quiz to check out the layout and the page works fine.
It may be that you are not using the updated theme or your version of Moodle is not up to date.
@serigio, try clear your browser cache and purge moodle cache;
the other possibility would be if you have modefiy the original core themes, Decaf is based on base and canvas theme, so any changes you made on base and canvas will have affect on decaf theme too.
On my 13 inch macbook, some of the texboxes get cut off and text flows to the edge of the boxes, and can not be seen. Because the box is cut off, I can not adjust the size of the text box. Where can i make the following adjustments?
@Omar,@Mary I have fixed the broken link now.
Great! Thanks
Mary
Hi Lei,
I'm feeling a little dumb here LOL. I can't seem to find the working link to download Decaf, and I can't find it in the theme area either.
What am I missing
William
That's my fault William. The link got changed and I didn't approve it. I am sure I did the when Lei told me he had changed fixed the download link. But it looks like the file name has changed again. Anyway...the is approved and once more in the Moodle Themes repository.
Cheers
Mary
Hi Mary,William,
I've updated decaf download link to github.com. For end-users, this means they will always get the most up-to-date release and link won't break again(assume github is not down )
Regards,
Lei
Hi Mary, Ben, Lei,
You three seem to be the go to people here. (thank god for you 3).
I downloaded the decaf theme, uploaded to my theme area and went to theme selector and this is what my screen looks like:
The screen stays this way until I delete the theme from the theme repository. Then the theme area works again any ideas?
Thanks
William
Hi William,
I had the same problem when I had both Decaf and an aardvark-based theme I was working on both installed at the same time, the theme selector would work with one of them in place, but not with both, so there appeared to be some kind of clash going on between .
I put it down to a typo I thought I had made in one of the changes I was playing with at the time, but I can't remember where it was. I'll try to work back through and trace it to check if it was my typo or one in an originally downloaded theme to see if that can help you.
Richard
Hi William,
I think I've now loaded every moodle2 theme from the database onto my local host, including getting the current online version of decaf and any other themes I already had installed, including my own, and haven't been able to replicate the problem I'd previously had, and haven't been able to track it back into my own previous versions having corrected it when it happened.
As I said above, in my case, I'm sure it was a typo I'd made editing a theme other than decaf that caused the problem. I don't suppose that's much help after all, but maybe clears the possibility of one fault area
I'll keep trying over the weekend and let you know if I get anywhere further. Alternatively - maybe updating any themes you have installed might do the trick? Trying not to sound like a car mechanic who can't find a fault the driver knows is there!!! lol!!!
Richard
Edit - I think the problem I had was in the early work i had done on either Lamplite or Krystle, where Mary (the Moodle Themes guru!) helped me identify all the places you need to rename in a theme. I think from other posts you have made that you have used these themes of mine before - is it possible you still have an older version of one of them that may be casuing this clash???
Rich
Hi Richard,
I unistalled the aardvark based theme and re-installed the decaf and all seems to be working OK. I had to rename the zip decaf theme in my theme directory and that did the trick.
You are right the aardvark and the decaf theme can't be installed at the same time.
Thank you very much for the information.
BTW Richard I have been testing your Krystle theme, it's great, good work.
William
Hi William,
Glad you've got to the bottom of this, but hopefully, if you make sure you've got the latest versions of everything, the problem should not happen.
As I said, I've updated all the themes I had - and downloaded others - and don't now have the problem. I have all the themes installed and all working fine. Should also add, I updated Moodle itself a few days ago as well.
Richard
Hi William...the problem is in the Aardvark-Lite theme for Moodle 2.0. There is a reference to splash theme in aardvark_lite/layout/profileblock.php file.
This is more than likely causing the problem with the theme selector not working. If you turn debugging on, you will see what / where the error is.
HTH
Mary
EDIT: 21:48 - I've just checked my themes and all work with decaf. So you must have a theme with is conflicting with the decaf theme. If you downloaded any of my theme from Moodle site they are all working correctly. Just wondering if the aardvark-lite you added to Moodle 2. was the 1.9 theme!!!
Hi Mary,
Decaf theme is now working, and your right I deleted the aardvark-lite theme and all is working fine.
BTW could we start a new thread for Cafelite 2.0. I still think its a fantastic theme, but am having some problems with it. Let me know.
Willliam
Yes do start a new thread...I need to know how you are getting on. I'm tearing my hair out with it at the moment! LOL
I'm thinking of rewriting it as the layout is all wrong, and I need base theme to carry it along, which it isn't at the present time.
Let me know what you want help with.
Mary
OK mary, I'mgoing to start a new thread and will call it cafelite 2.0.
I will send you screen shots as I encounter different things.
BTW cafelite is a great theme, so don't get discouraged!!!!!!!! I will help all I can
William
Hi Lei,
OK decaf is loaded and working great, now this what I would like to do if you can help me.
1. In the header I would like to add a logo.
2. And would like to have the Custom menu items that can be set in theme settings only show when users are logged in and on every page. The reason I think this is so important is, that you can't place blocks on all pages and with the custom menu this would add a great deal of flexabilty to the site on all pages.
Can you help me
William
William,
for point 1: either, in the php layout files change the line
<h1 class="headermain"><?php echo $PAGE->heading ?></h1>
for one which calls the logo image file instead of the text, or alter the css for the header to display a logo image and hide the text, which I think should look something like this
.headermain h1 {
display:none;
}
.headermain {
background: url([[pix:theme|logo]]) no-repeat left top;
height: 100px;
float: left;
}
I haven't actually tested this as I'm not actually at my computer with my moodle on it at the moment, but for point2, in the php files (e.g. frontpage.php and general.php) if you were to wrap the line $customment=$OUTPUT->custom_menu() in a conditional statement as below then that should do the trick
if (isloggedin()) {
$custommenu=$OUTPUT->custom_menu();
}
else {
$custommenu=""
}
Hope that helps
Richard
Hi Richard,
Thank you very much for the quick response.
I added the following lines to both frontpage.php & general.php
if (isloggedin()) {
$custommenu=$OUTPUT->custom_menu();
}
else {
$custommenu=""
}
and saddly the site did not like it LOL. When I added the comment and went to the site it would not load the site LOL. OK so back to the drawing board
What I am trying to do is have custom menu bar (Moodle community) only show when looged in.
I may have not did the code right, and most likely my fault.
Any ideas where I goofed?
Thanks Richard
William, Have you insert the ";" at the end of last statement?
$custommenu="";
If you could turn your debug info on in administartion settings, and paste your error message here, then it's easier to figure out what went wrong.
Now that would be my goof not yours William! many apologies!
Thanks Lei and Mary
Richard
Hi Lei,
I went into quiz and wanted to show the quiz attempts and this is what I got.
Navigation node intersect: Adding a node that already exists 1
Any ideas?
William
William...perhaps you added it to the wrong part of the page! Although I think Richard missed off the semi-colon at the end of the statement.
Anyway...it goes towards the top of frontpage.php and general.php just before echo $OUTPUT->doctype() ?> like so...
if (isloggedin()) {
$custommenu=$OUTPUT->custom_menu();
}else{
$custommenu="";
}
echo $OUTPUT->doctype() ?>
<html <?php echo $OUTPUT->htmlattributes() ?>>
<head>
HTH
Mary
Yep I left off the ";" at the end, my goof.
Works like a dream now, with the ability to use this on all pages it makes the themes really work like a intranet on the site, its easy and simple.
Thanks,
Lei, Mary and Richard
you three are without doubt the "3 musketeers of moodle themes"
William
Dear Musketeers.....
Hi, i am new to Moodle themeing (my first ever post)and have found the Decaf theme excellent, i have added my logo, background and some customization.
my new site (i am very happy wit ht the results)
my old site (that i am trying to mimic in Moodle 2.0)
I tried the code above, as like William i too wanted the menu to appear on all pages of the site, it is running correctly as i can switch it on or off for a none logged on user. I thought i would be clever and do this...
if (isloggedin()) {
$custommenu=$OUTPUT->custom_menu();
}else{
$custommenu=$OUTPUT->custom_menu();
}
But the menu doesn't seem to make it on to all sub pages and courses as i thought it would. i am actually going to construct the school website with in moodle and use this menu as the navigation so i actually want the menu on all pages.
Thanks Gav
Hi Gav,
You will need to add custommenu in the general.php layout file to get it to be on all pages.
Just add the following just above the END OF HEADER comment in general.php like so...
<?php if ($hascustommenu) { ?>
<div id="custommenu"><?php echo $custommenu; ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<!-- END OF HEADER -->
Also remove that code you added in the head of the page...you won't need it.
HTH
Mary
I also got the error:
Navigation node intersect: Adding a node that already exists 1
But I have no custom menu.
I am testing the certificate module ( from HEAD) and I guess there is the bug.
Can you give me a hint how to find out more?
With using the decaf menu bar, I was able to understand moodle user interface much better than with any 1.9 theme I saw before.
( it also says other bugs, but nothing to do with theme :
Capability "mod/certificate:manage" was not found! This should be fixed in code.
)
Did you manage to find out anything more about this error? I'm getting something similar on Moodle 2.2.2+:
PHP Notice: Navigation node intersect: Adding a node that already exists 7542
That last number changes constantly and I think it's a resource ID of some kind.
I would not like to swear on it, but this could well be caused by some resent changes to Moodle CORE Navigation.
Cheers
Mary
Hi Paul,
Can you please provide a bit more detail about when/where you're getting this? I don't seem to get such messages on Moodle 2.2.2+ (Build: 20120412) with debugging set to DEVELOPER, but it could be related to a resource or activity (or some other kind of plugin/module) which I'm not using. Here are a few questions which might help to narrow it down a bit:
-Paul
Will logos and favicons become part of the code for this theme?
Mark, this theme does not come with logos or favicons of any sort, the same as all the other standard themes that come with moodle. You are welcome to add your own.
Lei
Thanks for getting back to me so fast, Lei.
Sorry for not making my meaning plainer.
I meant would the ability to insert favicons and logos ever be part of Decaf without the webmaster having to tweak any code?
Since I posted, I have inserted a favicon in pix and it works fine without any code tweaking. How about a logo? I'll go ahead and try, but I suspect it won't be that simple. A couple of other posts talked about adding code to several files.
Dear Theme champions!
I like decaf very much, but I do not understand if this is a version mismatch or any other fault.
How to fix it?
in #region-main-box or #region-contant ?
I don't got a CSS confusion.
I use 2.0.1+ (Build: 20110209)
and decaf version: leizhang-moodle-theme_decaf-2c853e3.zip
solved!
look further down: Dietmar Wagner provided a solution
Thanks!
Hi,
I like this theme very much but I've upgraded to Moodle 2.0.2 and I have troubles using this great theme...
Before I manage to find a minute to report a bug, could someone have a look at it ?
Thanks.
What troubles are you having that you want someone to take a look at? Was it working correctly before you upgraded? Have you made any changes to the theme?
Richard
Thanks to helping Richard,
I have just tried on a fresh 2.0.2 install with decaf theme taken from github (https://github.com/leizhang/moodle-theme_decaf/zipball/master).
When I enable the theme, troubles start. Please have a look at screenshots.
I can confirm, that decaf can work with 2.0.2
I am using decaf at lernen.actxc.de
and I don't get screeens like you posted.
I tested with firefox 3.6.13 , chrome, IE
I would like to help you more. Please provide some more information
Hi Decaf Themers
I'm really liking this theme but some of the css is a little difficult, however I'm learning a lot! Couple of questions:
Could someone tell me where the buttons are styled (eg login), can't seem to locate that at all.
Best way to re-style the FilePicker? I had thought of putting the modified css in the Decaf core.css but it doesn't seem to work, eg:
/* File Picker styles-----------------------------*/
.file-picker .fp-panel {padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left; background-color:#666;}
.file-picker .fp-repo-name{color:036;}
What am I missing please?
Appreciate any help.
Richard
Richard,
Easiest way to find the css for a particular item is to use a tool like firebug in firefox. With that installed you can right click on the item and inspect the elements css, including where it comes from. You can also edit in place in firebug to see what effect the changes you make will have before making the edit properly in the css file.
As for changes not working there may be a few solutions:
1,the most common - make sure you have theme designer enabled
2.the rules are over-ruled (no pun intended) by code elsewhere - this can be overcome by adding !important to your rule
3.check using firebug that you have the correct identifier/class and there is no other class acting to override your rules.
Hope that helps
Richard (O)
Strange. Install but cant get it to work?
Anyone has similar problems?
can you provide a live link? I can give it a try and look at it.
my 2.0.2 with decaf is working.
have you checked the log file ?
thanks Richard for the hints.
Do you know demo decaf side?
I see some strange behavior whenn changing the Window size of the login screen and firebugs wont tell me the css I should change.
I want to see what I have to expect from a correct working decaf. The links on Lei's blog don't work.
worked for me.
Can you give me a hint, how I can research such .content-only by my self?
I've read the "How to create themes 2.0" but I didn't discover it.
Or should I look in the PHP source somewhere?
Hi Richard
Thanks for that; I have been using Firebug (which is how I found out where the File Picker was styled) and do have Theme Designer on,
I guess I was asking does anyone know where those rules might be overruled in Decaf specifically as I have been unable to locate them outside of base.
However, experimentation is the best way to learn so I'll keep digging.
Thanks for your hints.
Richard
When a theme uses base (or any other theme) as a parent, the css rules in base may not be specifically in the theme unless the theme designer wants them changed, so that will probably be why you can't find them in decaf.
You would just need to add those rules into one of the decaf css files (whichever is most relevant - or perhaps create a new one for your own customisations - so long as you add that file in to config) and it should pick up your added css within decaf before going looking in base. I have found it is sometimes necessary to add !important to the rules to ensure they do override other settings, although I'm not entirely sure why I've had to do this in some cases but not others.
Hope that helps
Richard
Hi RJ
If you include all the file-picker styles from base/style/core.css into decaf/style/core.css then you should be able to style 'file picker' to your heart's content.
There is nothing in decaf or canvas theme to over-ride the file-picker only base theme can do that. But if you add ALL the file-picker styles available to you for that particular element, then there should be no reason why it should not work.
HTH
Mary
Hi Mary and Richard
Yes, that's what I did but it didn't work - now it is so I guess it was a cache thing despite the theme developer mode being enabled. Or possibly I've got too many browsers open and am easily confused
Still having trouble finding out where the buttons are styled though. It seems to be in the mform classes in base/core.css and some of those are re-styled in decaf/core.css. As Richard says, where and why you need !important is not clear to me.
Thanks both for you help. It's going to look really good I'm confident; beautiful theme!
Richard
Hi RJ,
If you take a look at my Arctic theme which is in the Moodle Themes repository, you will see it have styles buttons.
The CSS I used is this...
/*
Button
-----------------------*/
select, input, button {
background-color: #6F9CA3;
color: white;
font: 99% arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;
}
#loginbtn, input, button, select { cursor: pointer;}
input#username, input#password { cursor: default; background: white; color: #4b4b4b;}
This will style all the buttons.
Hope this helps?
Hi Mary
Yes, that helps tremendously . Nice theme as well.
Many thanks
Richard
Cheers!
Not sure if this the right place... but here goes.
Love the decaf theme and it works great, i have done a few light mods to the appearance (mainly graphics) but.
When you are in a course and try to reorder the topics by clicking the blue arrow i get an error "Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer" i can't then do anything on the site, this message is the only thing on the screen. If i delete the theme and then load the site it now works (themeless), then re-apply the theme and i can carry on. It has the same problem with out my mods (Original Decaf Theme)
Obviously i can't make my site live until I can fix this issue, if any one reorders the topics in a course the site goes down.
Can anyone advice or has anyone had this problem? i have updated to the latest decaf version and it is still the same.
I have attached the PHP error all advice would be much appreciated.
Hi Gavin
I'm using decaf on an Ajax enabled site and can drag topics to reorder them with no problem. In Firefox and Chrome anyway - which browser are you using?
PLease see below the screen shot,
it happens in IE8 and firefox, i thought i would try the Krystal theme that is a mod on the decaf theme and it displays the same error.
????????
Hi Gavin
Since I'm using Ajax, I don't have those buttons on my version of decaf, sorry. Any possibility you could turn Ajax on - it's really easy to re-arrange courses and and links that way.
Richard
Thank you Richards.... Brilliant.
Yes i have the latest theme and moodle install and i am now a happy man.
Not fixed but not broken either, nothing beats a good work around. I have moved courses using the Ajax move method and no error is shown.
Do you know how to turn it on for every user? as i had to go in to my personal profile and change the default Ajax setting to on.
Thanks again Gav
Apparently then i am using Ajax (see comment below) - just don't remember enabling it, but must have, because when I checked setting up a new user it is off by default!
One way to turn it on for every user Gavin would be to go into the moodle sql database (I use phpmyadmin to make it easier) and in the mdl_user table there is a field called ajax which is either set to 0 (off) or 1 (on). If you have a large number of users you could do it that way - if you only have a few, then manually is probably easier. I haven't yet found a way of defaulting new users to on, but I'm sure that would be possible, as would including the ajax field in any bulk import of users.
Richard (O)
Can this setting not be done via Admin settings for the site. I seem to remember seeing it somewhere!
I thought so too Mary, but I couldn't find it when I looked before going out. I'll have another look as soon as I can.
Rich
Might I suggest typing Ajax in the admin search box? That will bring up all the settings needed
Have done that Richard.
No setting which defaults Ajax to being on shows up. The nearest one is the setting which enables Ajax, but this only turns on/off the ability to select Ajax and Javascript in the user profile - which by default is then set to 'no'. I presume this is deliberate as individual users may have Javascript turned off in web-browsers anyway - beyond the control of Moodle.
Richard
Hi Richard
Didn't mean to get overly smart . Settings attached - are you seeing the same?
I'm not too sure that the fix is to enable AJAX for users with this error.
I have a test server running windows, IIS with AJAX on for all users. I ran down my mdl_user table and enabled AJAX (0s to 1s;)).
I get the same problem when re-enabling the theme.
I get the problem with DECAF and Moodlebook.
Heres the debug code with Debugging on.
I'm wondering if its a problem with the menu, because when I back up my browser out of the error, I login using an account that works (my admin account) and I have the administration menu missing, so I have to re-login for it to appear.
Before I login using a normal user
After I login using a normal user
Is there a way to remove the menu bar and re-enable the admin block? that may solve the problem? or at least show that it may be the bar?
Yes, that's what I'm seeing, but the user still has to choose to enable Ajax on their profile - at least that's what's happening on my localhost setup.
Richard
I noticed that too. I changed all AJAX settings via phpMyAdmin, went to a user profile and noticed that it was showing ajax turned off!
I'm not aware that I have Ajax on on my install - it's a standard moodle install of v2.0.2 from a few days ago, but my 'move section' icons in decaf, krystle and moodlebook - another decaf related theme where a similar issue has been reported - are as the shot below and work with no problem.
Do you have the latest moodle version installed as well as the latest version of the theme Gavin?
Richard (O)
Although not the same theme I get the same error when using the facebook theme (which is based on decaf I believe?).
I'm on a windows box with IIS and have ajax turned on. Any other theme doesn't have this issue when I change it.
Hi Moodlers, i got this problem with Decaf.. everything was ok but suddenly i got a blank page in the home (only if i´m logged in). I purged the caches, clear my browser cache, set "$CFG->themerev = -1; // NOT FOR PRODUCTION SERVERS!".. reinstall Decaf theme.. but i still have the blank page..
Any hints... ?
Thanks in advanced...
Turn on debugging - the theme is beginning to load (the dark stripe at the top) but then failing. Turning debugging on will show you where the fault is. If it was working before, then take a look as well at any changes that have been made recently.
You may have to do this by entering a different theme first- if you have enabled changing themes on url you should be able to do that as below, otherwise you may need to delete decaf to get back to a working theme
http://mysite.com/pathtoyourmoodlehomepage/?theme=standard
To turn debugging on
Site Administration->Development->Debugging
Hope that helps
Richard
Thanks Richard.. it was memory problem. Solved.
I´ll debug my coffee machine , because it not work as expected
Alex,
When you say it was a memory problem where was the memory problem? Was it on your local computer or the server where your Moodle is installed? I am having the same issue. I cannot get the theme to load fully consistently and it is VERY slow if it does.
Thanks!
Melisssa
I'm not sure if anyone can help but I've got the same problem after setting this theme on a site I've upgraded.
I've upgraded from 1.19 to 2.24+, all seemed fine, and then installed decaf. As soon as I set it as the default theme the main page fails to load, with just the black bar showing. It loads okay on further attempts though but other pages don't, such as all category pages and most settings pages. Sometimes they fail with the back bar, other times with an "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error. Courses seem to load fine.
I've enabled debugging and the error I get is "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/moodle/lib/navigationlib.php on line 588".
I've checked my memory limit in phpinfo and it’s set to 512MB. I've been running this theme fine on an empty test site (2.24+) for a few weeks, though this was on Windows (php 5.3.5) where as my main server is on Ubuntu 12.04, (php 5.3.10).
Any pointers as to where to look would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
Just for the reference of others looking at this thread, this question was also asked in this thread ( http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=203236#p909831 ) and answered there. Please look there for further discussion on this problem.
