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FlexiBase
About this theme
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* @package theme_flexibase
* @author 2015 Richard Oelmann
* @copyright 2015 R. Oelmann
* @parents Bootstrap
* @copyright 2014 Bas Brands
* @credits Essential - Julian Ridden, Gareth Barnard;
* Elegance - Julian Ridden, Danny Wahl;
* BCU - Jez H, Mike Grant
* Decaf - Paul Nichols
* Many others for non-specific but vital inspirations,
* suggestions and support
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
This is the flexibase theme for Moodle. It is a Bootstrap3 theme, but uses
flexbox to create the layouts, rather than the bootstrap grid.
This theme depends upon Bas Brands bootstrap theme for bootstrap3.
The aim of the theme is to provide an experimental format for making use of the
flexbox css layouts to provide greater options for administrators and to simplify
the layout code when considering rtl languages, editing on/off, use of side-bars
and docking as well as other factors which influence the layouts. The theme allows
administrators to choose layout structures for set page layout types (standard pre
and post, 2 pre, 2 post etc) from a settings page without the need to edit theme
files.
The theme also makes use of less compilation on the fly through its settings pages.
It has a range of colour and branding options which affect the less variables, but
also makes use of a 'CustomLess' setting in the same manner as many themes have a
'CustomCSS' (as flexibase also does).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Older versions of IE do not support any version of the flexbox
format.
- IE9 and older: no support - Will appear in theme as if on a small screen (mobile first layout)
- IE10: Legacy support, supported in theme - Should appear as designed
- IE11+: Full support
I hope you find the theme useful. Please submit any comments and feedback via the
moodle.org forums or any bugs via the github issues page
https://github.com/roelmann/theme_flexibase/issues
Screenshots
-Derek
The version off Git seemed to be OK on my dev, but did a little bit of damage to the live site. Bob has reverted the whole site to Clean, and installed the new FB Git version for me from last night (NZ time) to test at site level. A new course went live yesterday, and it was not a good time for me to tweak the theme and break the book!@! The guys running it had my cell number but sent emails instead, I'll have to tell them next week if the site goes down in any way call me, since I could be absent and not reading emails.
I am at present sitting in MacDonalds having a few calls with Bob to tidy up some last details and I am wondering about the future of themes in this (my biggest) site that I look after. The questions include branding at the site level, category level etc. Then the access to the various menus like the Admin. And the fact that some of us work on desktops, some laptops and some touch screens. And we have different subsets of most often used functions. And preferences. Serif, colours sizes etc.
I'll check the change password problem, the blocks problem, the book, my bootstrap stuff and get back to you here. Thx again Richard.
-Derek
Darius
I've just reinstalled a fresh test site this week and had no issues.
However, the versions you state appear to be correct (latest FB, Moodle3.1 and BS3.1.0 should work!) , but my guess at the moment would be that something hasn't loaded correctly through the autoinstaller process from your host.
Can you check all the relevant folder permissions as the auto installer has set them, to ensure correct access to all the files in both themes. Also try just selecting bootstrap as your theme and see what happens there, trying to narrow down whether the issue is with the way the installer has added one or other of the themes and which one (or both) have the problem.
Tested on local fresh install (Moodle 3.1.3+ (Build: 20161202) ) - I don't have the codebase for 3.1.2. - This works fine.
Hmmmm :/
You probably need to check file permissions as another step in testing
Thanks, Darius
The implication, then, is that this is not an issue within Flexibase itself, or with Moodle versions, but something to do with the hosting settings (although that might then be something that can be addressed within the theme - possibly - if the issue was known :/ ).
Unfortunately, I am not in a position to investigate individual hosting solutions, I simply do not have the time/capacity to do so having already spent much of last night and today investigating this. There is at least one (year old) report that there are issues with php5.6 on VPS hosting, but I would not be able to comment on that.
If you are able to identify a bug/improvement in Flexibase, then I would be happy to fix it, but at the moment this looks like an issue with the hosting rather than with Moodle/Flexibase.
Richard
Thank you