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Hi all,

I’ve just downloaded 1.6 and installed it on a local server but I get a Control PAnel with no theme (no CSS).

I downloaded again in case it was corrupted but still no joy.

Also there is no drop down in the ‘My Account’ -> ‘Customise Control Panel’ area

If I click on the update button anyway I get this error message -

Notice: Undefined index: cp_theme in C:\dev\hambodesign\system\cp\cp.myaccount.php on line 2078

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\dev\hambodesign\system\cp\cp.myaccount.php:2078) in C:\dev\hambodesign\system\core\core.functions.php on line 296

Is no one else having these problems?

I am chomping at the bit to play with 1.6 but I can’t!!!

It’s only you.  I think Paul slipped you a bad copy just to mess with your head! 

Hm- well, pooter.  I think nothing is getting put in as a default site theme- but I can’t tell if it’s session related or pref related.  Er- may have to call the crew.  It’s considerably more complex back there now.  One thing you could try real fast?  Edit the config.php file and put in a cp_theme manually- base if off of your backup copy.  That bit has been moved to the database- but putting it in the config.php file may do the trick as a short fix.

And I’ll try to figure why this isn’t happening more.  I suspect it’s a conditional:

$theme = ($SESS->userdata['cp_theme'] == '') ? $PREFS->ini('cp_theme') : $SESS->userdata['cp_theme'];

And basically?  You don’t have a theme set for you and most folks do.  Hence it’s only hating on you.

Anyway- get back to you asap once I have a better idea of why it’s happening.

Very odd, I’m having the same problem today but not with 1.6, but 1.5.2.

I tried to amend the path for the admin area. On my local test server everything went well but on my live server I’m getting no CP CSS and the following error if I click update on the control panel theme page:

Notice: Undefined index: cp_theme in /home/probel/public_html/admin/cp/cp.myaccount.php on line 2044

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/probel/public_html/admin/cp/cp.myaccount.php:2044) in /home/probel/public_html/admin/core/core.functions.php on line 293

Note, I have no themes visible in the CP theme drop down menu though the files ‘are’ there in the themes folder on the live server.

nathan- your issue may well be different.  Did it work before and just break?  Also- double check your config.php file- should have:

$conf['cp_theme'] = "default";

Spot that in there?  And you have the default theme uploaded in the usual spot?

(i.6 moved this out of the config- thus I’m thinking the two issues are different.)

stinhambo with this error “Notice: Undefined index: cp_theme in C:\dev\hambodesign\system\cp\cp.myaccount.php on line 2078”;  When you go into My Account -> Control Panel Theme, are there any items in the select list?

Nathan’s problem does sound unrelated as it seems to indicate the $SESS->userdata array does not have cp_theme defined, which would seem to only occur if he got into the CP as a non-logged in member.

I’m not quite sure what happened but after a good few hours of faffing I noticed that the server path to the themes folder had changed somehow. I did the upgrade to 1.6, fixed the path and all seems to be good now. 😊

Great, Nathan. Glad you’re up and running again.

I was having the same problem with a fresh 1.6 install on an xampp/localhost setup on winXP.

The solution for me:

Take a look at “Theme Folder Path” in admin->system preferences->general configuration

My path was borked, but I switched it to C://www/sitename/themes/ and all is well.

May I ask how it was bork’ed?

I don’t remember exactly, something like
c:\wwwsitenamethemes

I remember selecting the “unix” choice when I was installing because I wasn’t sure what to choose since I was running apache on windows. That must have been the issue, eh?

Hm, well, the backslash is used for escaping in PHP, so I wonder if perhaps the change in 1.6 of putting many preferences into the database did not insure that the slash remained when it was pulled from config.php and put in the database.  I will investigate.

Another quick note. I noticed that I had two slashes after the drive letter.
This works, too:  c:/www/sitename/themes
(and is probably the correct way to do it.)

I had this problem too; fresh install 1.6. Confirmed the theme path is borked. I’m using WAMP on localhost.

On Windows too?  I was able to fix the update, but I need a really bullet proof fix for a larger backslash problem.