Smart Backgrounds support

[cfsheridan]

Ok, it's not hanging up if the smart_backgrounds_functions is in the /includes/functions/extra_functions folder

if it is in
/includes/functions/extra_functions/mytemplate/

it hangs up.

Even so, while it is working, I cannot get it to report back a value other than null, regardless of the page I am on.

Color me confused.

[gjh42]

What image names do you have, and where are they saved?
You do want a base image named (in this case) smartimg.jpg, for display when there is no specific image matching a page. If there is no match, the function will return null, and the base name and extension will be used.

There is no template override available in /includes/functions/, so
/includes/functions/extra_functions/smart_backgrounds_functions.php as the readme describes is correct. The zip has the extra folder. I have corrected this and reposted the zip.

[cfsheridan]

What image names do you have, and where are they saved?
You do want a base image named (in this case) smartimg.jpg, for display when there is no specific image matching a page. If there is no match, the function will return null, and the base name and extension will be used.

Image names are like this
smartimg.jpg
smartimg_11.jpg
smartimg_shippinginfo.jpg
etc.

Images are saved in includes/templates/custom/images/

The function is returning null regardless of the page I am on, so the base image is the only one displayed. So the code is working, it's just that the function is returning null regardless.

I guessed that there shouldn't be an override, since the site locked every time I tried to use the function in the override folder.

[gjh42]

This is a bit annoying. I threw the not-yet-tested 3.0 zip up in another thread with a request to let me know about any problems. 33 people downloaded it, but not one came back with a question.

Moving the code from tpl_main_page to a function broke it, as $current_page_base is not available inside a function without special arrangements. $_GET['main_page'] is available everywhere, so I have switched the function to use that, and it now works correctly. I have also improved the readme with a note about the base image for foreground image switching.

[Crunch]

Is there a demo of this in action? I checked a few random sites in this thread and no one appears to be using it, site is still in dev or their site is no longer valid.

Thanks!

[cfsheridan]

This is a bit annoying. I threw the not-yet-tested 3.0 zip up in another thread with a request to let me know about any problems. 33 people downloaded it, but not one came back with a question.

Moving the code from tpl_main_page to a function broke it, as $current_page_base is not available inside a function without special arrangements. $_GET['main_page'] is available everywhere, so I have switched the function to use that, and it now works correctly. I have also improved the readme with a note about the base image for foreground image switching.

Awesome Glenn!

Works like a charm. Thank you for the quick fix.

For the person asking about whether anyone is using this, I am.

I do not use the backgrounds portion or the css--just the foreground usage in the header logo image.

www.noquartercoffee.com

[Crunch]

So your site is just using this contribution to change the main site header logo image? That's what I initially thought this contribution was for, but then I got a bit confused about the background functionality.

So, you can have the header logo image change for any Category and sub-category?

Thanks for the functioning link example.

[cfsheridan]

The nice part of using the background function is that you can have one little bit of code and modify the css to manage the images. The code allows for the placement of a class in the main page, which you can then use in the css to put specific background images in different places.

Since I am scaling a larger image for my logo (and need the hard boundaries of the <img> container, backgrounds doesn't work for my application.

[gjh42]

The very first version of Smart Backgrounds was built for changing only the header background, and adaptable by recoding to other locations. It has since become universally applicable, but the original description always stays at the top of a mod's page in Free Addons. Look at the version descriptions for updates on functionality.