The forum software suggested I start a new thread, but I decided against it. I am using the fanfic software on my news site to let contributers update their articles easily.
I am old and wrote software back in the day when squirrels were the source of energy. I have to say your work is amazing! It is clear and so concise that I can follow your logic and I have no knowledge of .tpl or .css. You put lots of work into your skin and I hope when I finally get it to the point that it isn't kinda screwed up with my changes you will take a look at what I did with your work.
The one thing that has me befuddled is how I change Authors to say Members? I have seen it on the site where I found this software. If you or anyone can help me with that I would appreciate it.
Thanks again for the hours you put into this and for allowing us to play in your sand box.
Losille
Sorry losille, but what was asked would make this easier so that we don't have to keep moving topics and such. I moved your topic because changing authors to members is not related to the skin, but can be changed by editing the language files, it doesn't touch the .tpl files. The .tpl files are only for the skins.
So what you'll need to do is find the en.php in the folder /languages under your eFiction installation/files. And open it up in a text editor such as MS Notepad and find the following lines:
define ("_AUTHORS" , "Authors");
change that to:
define ("_AUTHORS" , "Members");
The only thing that may need to be addressed is that Authors and Members in the eFiction software are completely different, so by changing that you'd change the people the already submitted work to display as regular members, as members are those who have yet submitted work.
You may also be talking about changing the link to point to all members instead of just the authors. In that case, there are a few different options, and what one will work will depend on the skin. Do a search for adding links to the menu and you should find the information for that.
The software said not to post on the thread because it had been 120 days since the last post.
Thank you for the suggestion of changing the en.php file. You opened lots of possibilities for me.
Your suggestion did not change the menu on the index page for the Library skin. It still says author.
Losille
Open the header.tpl file in notepad
look for the line (around line 45):
<tr>
<td align="center" class="menu2"><b>Browse by</b>: {recent} | {authors} | {catslink} | {titles} | {series} | {challenges} <br /><br /></td>
</tr>
Change the {authors} to {members} like so:
<tr>
<td align="center" class="menu2"><b>Browse by</b>: {recent} | {members} | {catslink} | {titles} | {series} | {challenges} <br /><br /></td>
</tr>
Save and reupload it. That should fix it.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
Thank you, you guys are great!
I came over to say I had figured it out when I saw your post.
