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Changing the Overall
Look & Feel of PHP-Nuke: PHP-Nuke Themes/Templates
Changing a theme/template with PHP-Nuke is quite
an easy task. Generally, you will just have to download
the theme archive, extract it to your local computer
and upload it to your ‘phpNuke themes’ directory.
A good source of free PHP-Nuke themes is the
PHP-Nuke official web site and the forum that
comes with it. Additionally you can check
Nuke-themes.com for more themes (which is one
of my best sources apart from the PHP-Nuke official
web site). Now let us try to change a theme.
First, we will need to find a theme archive to
use. For the purpose of this tutorial I have chosen
Xelopolis-Iceblue theme, which is available for
free at
phpnuke.org. Please, download Xelopolis_Iceblue.zip
file on your local computer and extract it. This
will create a new directory called Xelopolis_Iceblue.
To make the new template available for your PHP-Nuke
application however, we will have to upload it first.
Please, open an FTP connection using your favorite
FTP client and navigate to your PHP-Nuke directory.
In our case this is the ‘www’ directory. From there,
please enter the themes directory and upload the
whole extracted Xelopolis_Iceblue directory. This
will create a new directory with the same name,
which will have the following full path: /www/themes/Xelopolis_Iceblue
Once uploaded, please enter your PHP-Nuke administrative
control panel (the admin.php) and click on 'Preferences'
tab.Scroll down a little and locate 'Default Theme
for your site' drop-down menu. Click on it and select
Xelopolis_Iceblue from the list in order to switch
to the new theme. Click on the 'Save Changes' button
at the end of the page and the new theme will be
up.
Additionally, you can try changing the theme
to one of the 14 already available themes that comes
with every default installation of PHP-Nuke.
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