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Custom Images Per Section?

posted by Krow on 06:15 AM July 8th, 2002      

I've got my colors customized per section, and I trimmed away the line borders from comments and stories and the fancyboxes. But I would like to have a custom logo (slashhead.gif) image per section. The only way I see to do this would be to change the IMG SRC in the header(117) template to say "IMG SRC=[% section %]/images/slashhead.gif" and then put an images/ directory and appropriate GIF in each section subdirectory under htdocs. But this doesn't work, and the % section % part is ignored. Am I using the right name? Do I have to do something extra to get custom images per section? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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• a few things (Score:2)

  by tf23 (175)

  I swear this was asked before.
  
  Anyway...
  
  1. Don't refer to templates by #, the numbers can change per each slash installation. Don't refer to templates by their
  name only. Instead, refer to them by name;page;section.
  
  2. If section is being ignored, then it's probably not being passed to the header template.
  
  You need to follow the process through:
  
  someone hits  /index.pl
  
  index.pl calls header() with what?
  does header() eventually call slashDisplay('header') or
  slashDisplay('header',{section => $sect

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• I did something pretty simple. (Score:2)

  by Uttles (3248)

  On EDUSlash.com, I made the slashhead with a blue background, and black around the edges. Then I just made the blue transparent, and on the page itself I assigned the background of that cell block to user.bg(1) or whatever. So, for each section, the background color for that section shows through. This is visible by going to http://eduslash.com then http://eduslash.com/index.pl?section=clemson

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