Joseph Rézeau

Hi Philip and David and thanks for the detailed explanations.

Now I understand it all and I've been able to implement my own stylesheet, over-riding the admin-imposed theme. There is a minor drawback in this otherwise perfectly valid workaround: since it is only possible to impose one's own style through a "regular" CSS file, we lose the interesting facility of the "variable color parameters" as originally coded in the styles.php of the themes directories. Which means putting all those variables back to where they belong in one's own CSS file. A little tiresome, but well worth the new customizing freedom it gives me as a teacher.

I'm looking forward to the new "rendering mechanisms" mentioned in David's post (version 2).

Joseph_R

Hi David!

Your post answers a query I've had since I became acquainted with Moodle. It is for me - as a teacher - quite necessary to be able to override in my own course(s) the default theme/stylesheet set by admin for the whole Moodle site.

However, being ignorant of php, I do not understand how your workaround works. I'd be grateful if you could answer the following questions/guesses...

1. As fas as I can see, stylesheets in the current Moodle Themes are .php files, not plain .css ones; in your workaround you mention a style.css file: would that be a plain .css file or would it have to be a .php file ?
2. In your formula : href="<?php echo "$CFG->wwwroot/file.php/$course->id/style.css"; ?>", where does the name of my course go?
3. If one teacher wants to have his own .css stylesheet for more than one course OR if a number of teachers want to thus customize their course(s), would admin have to add as many extra lines as needed to the header.html file?

Actually, what is badly needed in a forthcoming new version of Moodle is a facility for individual teachers to customize their own course.

Thanks in advance,

Joseph_R

Thanks, Martin.

I should have read more carefully this passage from the Download Moodle page:

From a Windows computer

To get started with a fresh copy of Moodle, follow the following steps:

6- For the STABLE version, click on the "Revision" tab and then check the radio button labelled "Choose branch or tag". From the drop-down menu select MOODLE_14_STABLE. For the latest development version just leave out this step.

May I suggest rephrasing point 6 thus:

6- For the STABLE version, click on the "Revision" tab and then check the radio button labelled "Choose branch or tag". From the drop-down menu select MOODLE_14_STABLE.

For the latest development version just leave out step 6 (under the Revision tab, the radio-button Use HEAD branch is checked by default).

Joseph_R

Hello

I want to dowload Moodle 1.5 dev version using TortoiseCVS. When I go to the Choose branch or tag list, I can see two references: MOODLE_15_LDAP and MOODLE_15_LDAP_PRE

What is the difference and which one should I select?

Thanks in advance

Joseph_R 

Thanks Gustav

That's exactly what I had missed. After upgrading it is necessary to go to the URL /moodle/admin/index.php

Now everything is working OK.

Thanks again for your help

Joseph_R