Development/Template conversion

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Automatic conversion

In order to convert a template from a different CMS (for example, Limbo CMS or Mambo CMS or Joomla! CMS) you have to:

1. download http://laniuscms.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/laniuscms/tools/templateconv.php and run it locally with your template's index.php file
2. copy or create the drake.css in the css template subfolder
3. remove redundant CSS definitions in template_css.css
4. fix CSS declarations in index.php

Manual conversion

The following list enumerates general changes that apply in the conversion.

NOTE: the below listed changes are automatically applied by automatic conversion, see previous paragraph

• $limbocore class instance has been superseded by $d
• $mosConfig_website and $lm_website should be replaced by $d_subpath
• $mosConfig_absolute_path and $lm_absolute_path are replaced by $d_root
• you do not need to specify the encoding (formerly $iso=explode('=', _ISO) )
• replace mos with $d-> since functions prefixed by mos are now methods of the main CMS class (for example, LoadModules)
• use $d_subpath in place of $d_website (formerly $lm_website) to create urls
• absolute urls are deprecated
• DO NOT use http-equiv meta tags for content-type and content-encoding, since they are sent as headers and/or generated by Lanius CMS itself
• use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] to refer to the current page (other approaches are deprecated); also try not to refer to the current page since it is implicit in html addresses
• the topmost line should check for _VALID to be defined (formerly _VALID_LM)
• the template name (same as the template folder name) is defined as a global variable $d_template