Themes

if(!isloggedin()) -  the ! means 'is not' => 

if(!isloggedin()) {output the login/register stuff....} in plain language would be:

If the user is NOT logged in then output the login/register stuff...

But you will need to do this by overriding the custommenu renderer, so you could try reading this first http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Overriding_a_renderer

Richard

By the way, I also changed the  'theme_aaradyha to the name of my own "child" theme.

Saeed,

The lines you have added to config are NOT config file lines they are part of a settings page (settings.php) and work within that settings page.

Without wishing to seem negative, I would suggest you take a look at the way some of the existing themes are structured and read some of the 'how to create a theme' docs which are linked from the top of this forum.

I realise you have stated you are new to programming and coding earlier in this thread, so please can I recommend a basic level of reading through the materials provided before trying to attempt some of the tasks you are attempting. We are all more than willing to help any newcomers to theming, but sometimes that help needs to be to remind you to start at the beginning - we've all been there, but trying to follow instructions such as Mary's without that background of knowing or recognising some basic php and some common structures for parts of the theme makes it very difficult.

Hi,

First of all you need to remove all the changes you made to your theme and start again.

This is what you need to do:

1. ADD the following to your theme's settings.php
   at about this line...
   https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_essential/blob/master/settings.php#L59
   
   
   // Theme overrides custom menu setting...
       $name = 'theme_themename/custommenuitems'; //where themename should be your theme's name
   
       $title = get_string('custommenuitems', 'admin');
       $description = get_string('configcustommenuitems', 'admin');
       $default = '';
       $setting = new admin_setting_configtextarea($name, $title, $description, $default);
       $settings->add($setting);
   
   
2. NEXT add this line to top of frontpage.php where all similar code is added...
   
   $custommenu = $OUTPUT->custom_menu($PAGE->theme->settings->custommenuitems);
   $hascustommenu = (empty($PAGE->layout_options['nocustommenu']) && !empty($custommenu));
   
   
3. NEXT add the highlighted code (see below) at this point in your frontpage.php...
   https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_essential/blob/master/layout/frontpage.php#L165
   
       <div class="nav-collapse collapse">
   
    <?php echo $OUTPUT->custom_menu(); ?>    <- DELETE this
   
       <?php
    if ($hascustommenu) {
       echo $OUTPUT->custom_menu();                            <- ADD this
    } ?>
    
       <ul class="nav pull-right"> 
   
   Please note that the code in light grey represents the existing code & the DELETE & ADD are just pointers to try and explain what to do.
   
   
4. Having done all the above. Go to your theme Custom settings page and add the actual menu items that you want to see on the front page.

Hopefully this should get ride of the errors. As Richard pointed out this is really part od Advanced codeing, but since you seem to know what you are doing I had assumed you would first check the files I referred you to, and after looking at the code and the name of the file they were in I would have assumed you would have copied that to your theme files of the same name.

Anyway one learns quicker making mistakes and we are all learners at the end of the day.

It also make it confusing when there are different solutions for the same question. The trick is choosing the one that best fits your needs.

Cheers

Mary

Hi Gareth

Thanks  a lot for the reply.

I uninstalled the theme completely, purged all cache, and reinstalled it again. Then I re-applied the changes (copy-pasted them, actually). I also changed the '$plugin->version' in 'version.php' from 2014010600 to 2014011400. Still, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function add() on a non-object in .../theme/essential/settings.php on line 66

with line 66 being

$settings->add($setting);

The theme's two file of setting.php and frontage.php are attached with Mary's changes applied in them.

Many Thanks

BTW, I have not touched the other files due to their being newly installed.

And here's the frontage.php.

Hi Gareth

Here are the navabar screen shots for both when I am logged in and in the home page and when logged out. Like I said, this is when I insert the codes in the first css box, that is, the one near the top of the theme's general settings page. As for the second css box, when I enter the codes in it, nothing appears on the navbar at all.

Just so as not to lose the plot I am working on a solution...which should work and may be a novel idea for other themes which Gareth may want to streamline as he is better with PHP than I am. 

Hi Mary,

 <?php echo $custommenu; ?> is the line I had there, but to no avail! 

Hi Mary

That would be really kind of you. I just wonder where I might have made a mistake in my modifications. They were mainly copy-pasting.

Many thanks

For anyone watching this thread MDL-31043 is how the theme based menu came to be.

This works great if you add the normal menu to your frontpage.php and the theme based one to general.php.

However, trying to make this work as we want it to on one page is proving very difficult.

I think I have fixed this with Gareth's help, to whom I am greatly indebted.

@Saeed,

I will email you the changes.

Thanks for your patience

Mary