Customize/smarty

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Creating a new 'theme' 3 Editing templates 4 See your changes 5 Change GameCP Settings

Overview

Here is a basic overview on how to edit GameCP's templates.

Youtube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2emZ6hdX-g

GameCP uses the Smartys template engine, its very good, solid, robust and has plenty of features to make any programmer happy.

Creating a new 'theme'

• Locate the templates folder
• Copy the 'fresh' template to a new name - ie: 'mytemplate'
• Copy any 'smarty' folders+files from the default template to your mytemplate/smarty folder
  • if you modify the header.tpl - copy the file to your template, dont modify the `default` folder items

Editing templates

Replace 'default' with your templates name otherwise changes will be re-set when you upgrade!

• Locate your GameCP install.
• Locate the templates:

template\default\smarty

• In here you will see many directorys, these describe what the templates will be used for:

troubletickets
navigation
managemaps
managefiles
login

I* f you don't see the files you want to edit copy them over! they are in

template\default\smarty

• Copy the full folder then erase any files you don't modify.
• Locate a .tpl file and open in in a text editor

See your changes

Navigate to your compiled templates:

includes\smarty\templates_c

Erase the files inside.

View your changes from your control panel.

Change GameCP Settings

• Login to GameCP
• Goto Settings
• Change the theme to your new theme
• Save Settings