Themes

Hi,

I have some issues I hope you can help me with.

I followed each steps provided by Mary, but using Elegance theme, with a Elegantchild child theme (found in Moodle.org) I can't have a different custommenu on differet themes.

I followed these instructions too:

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31043

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=193738

Problems:

1) Elegantchild has its own settings.php.

If I add to it (where?) this lines afetr php opening tag nothing seems to happen, but of course it could depend on the fact that other steps are missing; if I put it inside the document (e.g. at line 56 or line 79) I get a blank page.

$name = 'theme_afterburner/custommenuitems';
$title = get_string('custommenuitems', 'admin');
$description = get_string('configcustommenuitems', 'admin');
$default = '';
$setting = new admin_setting_configtextarea($name, $title, $description, $default);
$settings->add($setting);

So, I deleted old settings.php for child theme and created a new one with only this:

<?php

defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die;

if ($ADMIN->fulltree) {

    // Theme overrides custom menu
    $name = 'theme_elegantchild/custommenuitems';
    $title = get_string('custommenuitems', 'admin');
    $description = get_string('configcustommenuitems', 'admin');
    $default = '';
    $setting = new admin_setting_configtextarea($name, $title, $description, $default);
    $settings->add($setting);
}

2) Assuming I have the settings.php above, I go forward and try with layout file. Elegantchild has no default.php file and no layout folder. If I create the folder and put a default.php in it (cloning from elegance theme, and changing

    theme_elegance_initialise_reader($PAGE);

    to

theme_elegantchild_initialise_reader($PAGE);

inside it (the only change I found), and then add 

$custommenu = $OUTPUT->custom_menu($PAGE->theme->settings->custommenuitems);
$hascustommenu = (empty($PAGE->layout_options['nocustommenu']) && !empty($custommenu));

after the opening php tag, I get some strange message in the rendered page of the child theme, something like

[MAIN CONTENT GOES HERE - ZvJFRzKKnS]

and navigation buttons stop working. This is the only thing I can see from now.

One more thing, I tried also the MDL-31043 change (that is a little different, MAYBE, from Mary's), but Elegance default.php has no

$custommenu = $OUTPUT->custom_menu();

but a

    <div id="moodle-navbar" class="navbar-collapse collapse">
        <?php echo $OUTPUT->custom_menu(); ?>
        <?php echo $OUTPUT->user_menu(); ?>

so I don't know how to change it to make it look like

$custommenu = $OUTPUT->custom_menu($PAGE->theme->settings->custommenuitems);

3) I tried to purge chaches, but after point 2) I can't browse site.

4) Mary wrote

Depending on where you want this menu to show you would need to add the file name to the $THEME->layouts found in the theme's config.php

Is this step I'm missing? I can't really figure out how to do this.

So, am I missing /doing wrong something? (I bet it's so!)

PS: I'm using Moodle 2.6.2. with Elegant / Elegantchild themes.

I'm trying again. I think I'm getting closer to understanding, but I've bumped in to a problem. When I put the code you indicate in my settings.php file in the theme I'm editing (Essential), my site administration fails to load (shows a very small, blank pop up box) and I cannot get in to anything under site administration. 

I read this page: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31043

It seems to provide very similar instructions. Following this yields the same result, a problem loading my site administration settings. That link also references changing something in outputrenderers.php . I'm not sure where that file is, or if I should replace something with the code given or add the code given.

I feel so close, I'd love to have a custom menu for a given theme that I could define in the theme settings page. I'd pay someone to do this small hack for me, but I do not know who! Thanks for any help you can give.