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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

You're reading from   Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of Joomla! templates

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511247
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Joomla! Theming Basics 2. Custom Joomla! Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Theming the Details 4. Custom Page Templates 5. Styling Joomla! for Print 6. Joomla! Admin Templates 7. Social Media and Joomla! 8. Styling Joomla! for Mobiles 9. Joomla! and JavaScript 10. Miscellaneous Joomla! Templating Joomla! Output Overrides

Changing the logo in an administrator template


If you want to customize your Joomla! administrator template, one of the most noticeable elements that you can alter is the logo that is displayed.

Getting ready

Prepare the logo that you'd like to use in your administrator template. We'll use the one based on the logo for the example site we've started to change:

Note

We'll be using the APLite template in this example, though you can easily apply this technique to any Joomla! administrator template.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the template's index.php file, and locate the following code:

    <div id="ap-logo">
    <!--begin-->
    <?php
    if(file_exists($logoFile)) { ?>
    <a href="<?php echo $url;?>administrator">
    <img src="<?php echo $logoFile;?>" /></a>
    <?php } else { ?>
    <a href="<?php echo $url;?>administrator">
    <?php echo $mainframe->getCfg( 'sitename' ) . " " . JText::_( 'ADMIN' );?> </a>
    <?php }?>
    <!--end-->
    &lt...
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