Thread: how convert html template to glype?

I've found a nice template and want to know how to make it into a glype theme and i know many people do it here for free but i want to learn how to do it myself.

so i tried just renaming index.php to main and that didn't work the layout went all funny. so is there any tutorials around or resources?

just paste the form inside the template, this is easier with phproxy.

copy the form field code and repaste it in your new template page. i think it should work.

yea i did that and it will proxify the page and all that but the whole theme layout goes all over the place and images dont load it really strange im using xampp so maybe that's the problem.Ill upload to my site a see if that helps.

just be sure to paste it in a place where it wont interfere with the rest of the template and remember to resize the form so it fits inside the html template

Do you have some HTML and PHP basic knowledge? because converting plain HTML template into glype template is not that simple. You need to break it into at least 3 files, Main.php Config.php and framedForm.inc.php where main.php is the structure of the layout, config.php is where the content reside, and framedForm.inc.php is the top navigation bar in the proxified page.

i only got a very basic knowledge but ill give it a go a keep reading through the source from other templates and c if i can get it that way.

Yes it may help. If you have any questions you can ask me, I'll do my best to help you out.

cheers,

Originally Posted by neverlast

i only got a very basic knowledge but ill give it a go a keep reading through the source from other templates and c if i can get it that way.

another question do you have to make it into main.php and config can i not just make one index file.Im not really planing on sharing this theme?

You can skip using the config.php file to store your site content and just add eveything into the main.php file itself, everything should still work ok. I do that sometimes.