Themes

YouDate supports two types of themes:

• full themes, that include: css, js, images, views (templates) and so on.
• extended themes, that have been inherited from full themes.

Warning

For proper upgrade you should not edit/delete any files in application and content/themes/youdate directories (your changes will be overwritten by new files).

Info

YouDate script comes with custom theme which is an extended theme (from youdate; demo).

Starter theme

YouDate comes with extended theme called mydate (since v1.4). It's a starting point for theme customization. Files and directories structure is:

.
├─ content/                            # All your content
│  └─ themes/                          # Themes
|     └─ youdate/                      # Default theme
|     └─ custom/                       # Customized theme (example)
|     └─ mydate/                       # Your theme directory (you should edit this one)
|        └─ components/                # Theme components
|           └─ ThemeBootstrap.php      # Theme bootstrap class
|           └─ ThemeSettings.php       # Theme settings class
|        └─ views/                     # Views (templates)
|        └─ theme.json                 # Theme info
|        └─ screenshot.png             # Theme scresnshot (not required)

theme.json contents:

{
  "title": "MyDate",
  "author": "Alexander Kononenko",
  "website": "https://youdate.hauntd.me/",
  "version": "1.0",
  "namespace": "mydate",
  "extends": "youdate"
}

ThemeBootstrap.php contents:

<?php

namespace mydate\components;

use yii\base\BootstrapInterface;

/**
 * @author Alexander Kononenko <contact@hauntd.me>
 * @package mydate\components
 */
class ThemeBootstrap extends \youdate\components\ThemeBootstrap implements BootstrapInterface
{
    /**
     * @param \yii\base\Application $app
     */
    public function bootstrap($app)
    {
        parent::bootstrap($app);

        // your customization code goes here
        // ...
    }
}

ThemeSettings.php contents:

<?php

namespace mydate\components;

use Yii;

/**
 * @author Alexander Kononenko <contact@hauntd.me>
 * @package mydate\components
 */
class ThemeSettings extends \youdate\components\ThemeSettings
{
    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function getSettings()
    {
        $settings = [
            // your custom settings
            // see `content/themes/youdate/components/ThemeSettings.php
            // ...
        ];

        return array_merge($settings, parent::getSettings());
    }
}

After creating these files and directories you'll be able to switch to your theme. Note, that all theme settings (Admin > Themes > Theme settings) will be empty, because your new theme settings and youdate theme settings are stored separately.

Customizing views (templates)

To customize particular views:

• find them in your parent theme (content/themes/youdate/views)
• copy into your new theme (content/themes/mydate/views)

Example: you want to customize footer, copy content/themes/youdate/views/partials/footer.php to content/themes/mydate/views/partials/footer.php, then edit copied file.