Ability to use the {VAL_SKIN} in all your tpl

[Guest aikdo]

I dont know if your all aware but when skinning you can only use the {VAL_SKIN} veriable in global/index.tpl , global/cart.tpl & Boxes/shopping_Cart.tpl ...

This causes problems if you want to add a image to your skin in say the boxes/catagories.tpl file as it will simply not work...

This Topic Describes how to add the {VAL_SKIN} variable functionality to all your boxes templates and content templates with ease...

first...

BOXES

In each file in [ Includes/boxes/** ]

FIND

$box_content=new XTemplate("skins/".$config['skinDir']."/styleTemplates/boxes/shoppingCart.tpl");

AFTER ADD 

$box_content->assign("VAL_SKIN",$config['skinDir']);

CONTENT PAGES - Slightly more difficalt, and not as needed...

In Each File in [ Includes/content/** ]

FIND LINE LIKE

$view_cat = new XTemplate ("skins/".$config['skinDir']."/styleTemplates/content/viewCat.tpl");

The bit in bold will be diffrent for each page...

AFTER ADD

$page_variable->assign("VAL_SKIN",$config['skinDir']);

Change the bit in bold to match the same as the first one... so as an exanple the view_cats page has the $view_cat bit so the code you need to enter is

$view_cat->assign("VAL_SKIN",$config['skinDir']);

Its that simple...

Can someone possibly pin this as i know it will be usefull to many, and hopefully brooky will include it in future versions... Just to make skining the stores easier...