How to create a new theme?

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To customize the styles of your AdAdmin installation you have to create a custom theme.

A theme is just a folder with a bunch of files inside the data folder (normally it is under amb directory if you didn't change it).

Inside the data folder there are by default, since version 3.994, two themes: basic_theme and deepblue_theme.

You can change the theme used in your installation by changing this line in the pons-settings.php file.

define("DOMINIODEFAULT","basic_theme");

So, make a copy of Basic theme or Deep Blue theme, rename to sometest_theme and place it in the pons-settings.php file:

define("DOMINIODEFAULT","sometest_theme");

Now AdAdmin will load files in this folder to build the layout. You can edit theme with your preferred HTML editor and you can add your custom css in the stile.css file.

Now you can customize also logo and favicon using the files in this folder and the previous settings for LOGO and FAVICON have been removed since you can place the favicon.png file (for the favicon) and thumb.jpg file (for logo).

When you edit the theme php files, please pay attentions to some special codes. Basically you can change this HTML code as you want, just don't touch strings between graphs { and } which are used for translations by AdAdmin, also strings between ##.
And also pay attention (don't touch) the # strings which are used to build smart tags that are replaced by AdAdmim.