Topic: Background image for Portal only

[cwoodson]

Is it possible to have a background image for the portal only, if so where in the portal.css would it be? Or how would I modify simple portal to allow a separate background for the portal page. If you see the screenshot below, as of right now I have it as my theme background but I want it only for my portal page

Any help is appreciated
Thanks!

[AngelinaBelle]

The easiest way to do this would be to use a different theme for the portal page.
The theme would be based on your default theme. The only difference would be in the CSS -- you'd want to have index.css and, probably, portal.css in this new custome theme.

[cwoodson]

Ahh okay not a bad idea, I'll try that out!

Thanks!

[cwoodson]

That did the trick, only problem I am having now is I use the page module built into Simple Portal. In turn the custom pages I use get the background of the portal page...

Any way around this?

[AngelinaBelle]

Of course, there is a way around this.  It would take a little bit of custom coding.
I am not certain where, exactly, the theme decision is made for the custom pages.
So I look in Load.php.  I find out the theme is loaded with function loadTheme.
I look everywhere for loadTheme, and I see it is called in index.php, with no parameters.
Back to function loadTheme, I look for how loadTheme makes a decision when it has not been passed a theme ID. I find

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// Maybe we have a portal specific theme?
 if (!isset($_GET['action']) && !isset($_GET['board']) && !isset($_GET['topic']) && ($modSettings['sp_portal_mode'] == 1 || !empty($sp_standalone)) && !empty($modSettings['portaltheme']))
  $id_theme = (int) $modSettings['portaltheme'];So now I know the right place to make a change.  Now I need to know how to tell it "but not if it is a custom page."
So I go to my website, click on a link to a page, and observe the URL is like: index.php?page=
So I know that, in this case isset($_GET['page']) will be true. So I decide to try the following:
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// Maybe we have a portal specific theme?
 if (!isset($_GET['action']) && !isset($_GET['board']) && !isset($_GET['topic'])
  && ( $modSettings['sp_portal_mode'] == 1 || !empty($sp_standalone))
  && !empty($modSettings['portaltheme'])
  && !isset($_GET['page'])
)
  $id_theme = (int) $modSettings['portaltheme'];
And then, I would test this, to make sure it would work. And, after I was done testing, put it all back on one line to match the surrounding code.  I only introduced the extra spaces to make it easier on my eyes while testing.
Please test and see if this works for you.

[cwoodson]

Ahh perfect that did the trick! Haven't received any errors yet!

Thanks for your help!

[AngelinaBelle]

Glad to help.  Marked solved.