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Theming

With HumHub you can easily create your own themes. Regardless of whether you want to build a complete new looking interface or you only want to do some small changes to fit the platform better to your needs. HumHub gives you the options you need.

What you need to know about theming in HumHub

  1. HumHub was build within the yiiframework (http://www.yiiframework.com). This framework implements the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern. If this is new for you, please visit http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.mvc for more information.

  2. The interface of HumHub is using the Twitter Bootstrap Framework (http://www.getbootstrap.com) to building the interface. Currently in version 3.0.2.

  3. If you created or installed a new theme inside the themes folder, you can switch to the new theme through your account menu Administration > Design > Theme.

  4. HumHub comes already with a Sample-Theme, which you can use as template for your own theme (what we highly recommend).

Structure of theme folders

The principle of theming in HumHub is overwriting. To build a new theme, you have to create a new folder with the name of your new theme (for example: "mytheme") inside the "themes" folder in application root.

The following listing shows you the folder structure for a theme:

/mytheme/                       - My Theme Name
    /css/                       - Your theme css files (optional)
    /js/                        - Additional javascript files (optional)
    /font/                      - Additional fonts (optional)
    /img/                       - Images (optional)         
    /views/                     - Overwritten Views
        /moduleId/              - Id of Module (module_core Id, module Id, or base controller id)
            /controllerId/      - Id of Controller
                index.php       - Overwritten View File
            /widgets/           - Links to /someModule/widgets/views/
                someWidget.php  - Overwritten widget view
        /widgets/                - Links to /protected/widget/views

Note: There is an difference between yii´s normal widget theme handling!

Custom CSS

If your theme is activated, you have to tell HumHub, where he find new CSS or JavaScript files. To do that, you have to copy the head.php from:

/protected/views/layout/

to your theme folder:

/themes/mytheme/views/layout/head.php

Now open the copied head.php with an editor of your choice and you can add further CSS or JavaScript files, you needed.

Here is an example how to load your own css file and override the bootstrap standard classes:

// Core bootstrap css file
<link href="<?php echo Yii::app()->baseUrl; ?>/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

// Additional needed CSS classes
<link href="<?php echo Yii::app()->baseUrl; ?>/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">

// Your theme css file
<link href="<?php echo Yii::app()->theme->baseUrl; ?>/css/mytheme.css" rel="stylesheet">

Note: Your own css file has to be load after the bootstrap core css file to work correctly.

If your own css file is loading correctly you can writing your own styles depends an the Twitter Bootstrap Guidelines you will find here: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started

Custom views

To edit a view, you have to copy the original view from the protected folder into your theme folder. Please take care to observe the themes folder structure above.

If your theme is activiated, HumHub automatically looks at first inside the theme folder. If there was no view found, he will load the original one.