Applying Multiple Themes / set theme in config?

mostmodernist · December 2010

Is it possible to apply a different theme based on the URL?

For example, to display a mobile theme at mobile.mysite.com while keeping a full scale theme at mysite.com? Perhaps something in a config?

I'm using the latest Vanilla.

jamesmcintyre · March 2011

I second mostmodernist question, anyone have an answer?

luc · March 2011

It's currently possible to have a standard theme and a mobile using the same URL.
You could use a different one if you'd like.

jamesmcintyre · March 2011

@luc how? the reason i'm interested is because I'm going to embed my forum on a facebook page and the embed theme is perfect, but i'm not sure how to have my normal theme on the actual domain while the embed theme on fb? thanks

luc · March 2011

Nothing to do.
Just try it here with a mobile, depending on the user agent, it will show a mobile theme.

There's another mobile theme if you don't like blue (http://vanillaforums.org/addon/green_mobile-theme)

jamesmcintyre · March 2011

@luc what i'm trying to ask is is there any way to have your normal theme when people visit your domain BUT the embed friendly theme when viewing via an embed? (i image by employing the same mechanism by which vanilla knows it's being visited by a mobile browser then uses the mobile them it could know it's being visited via an embed and use the embed theme, i'm hoping for it to be that simple!) thanks again

jamesmcintyre · March 2011

I haven't been able to find anything about switching a theme if being loaded from within an iframe (embedded) so I think I'm just going to use some javascript to modify the custom.css of the theme if it's being loaded within an iframe (here's the javascript that can detect if the page is loading within an ifram: http://goo.gl/J7RBm). Basically I'm going to only show the "content" div when embedded by hiding all other divs and expanding "content" div to 100% width. Hope it'll work, thanks for your help @luc.

luc · March 2011

I guess that's your only chance, because the user-agent trick can't really be used for this.

jamesmcintyre · March 2011

@luc i was wondering if you could check out my code for detecting embed and modifying css, I posted it as a question but haven't got an answer yet. Here's the question: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15431/trying-to-hide-certain-divs-when-embedded-having-trouble-can-anyone-helps/p1

Thanks

luc · March 2011

I'm no professional (or amateur) coder. And while I have some knowledge of vanilla 2, it's far from knowing everything :).

In php/js, I am able to use existing working code to tweak to my need, but not to write from scratch or check other peoples code. Sorry.

jamesmcintyre · March 2011

ok, thanks for the reply!

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