Biomedical Informatics

Sometimes when managing Moodle we need to clone one theme to apply to a category or course, this would allow to personalize that cool theme. The original article in Moodle can be found here.  But I'm even lazier than that.  My approach is simple.

1. 1. Create a copy of your theme (<theme>) folder, and rename it <new_theme>.  Keep it in lower cases.
2. 2. Open Eclipse PDT IDE
3. 3. Open your theme using the Eclipse Menu : "File->Open Project from File System... "
4. 4. Click on the "Directory" button and select your <new_theme> folder
5. 5. Once it reads your folder click on the "Finish" button
6. 6. Now go to "Search->Search"
7. 7. In the containing text field type "<old_theme>"
8. 8. Then click in "Replace" button. It would find all occurrences
9. 9. Then typo <new_theme>  in the "With:" field
10. 10. Click "Ok"

You have changed all strings, now we need to change files' names. 

1. 1. Open the search function "Search->File.."
2. 2. Leave containing text field empty
3. 3. The file pattern will be *<old_theme>*  (Including the "*") 
4. 4. The list will be available in your Search results window
5. 5. Right click in each one and "Show In -> Project Explorer"
6. 6. In the project explorer Right Click "Rename" or "F2" and replace <old_theme>  for <new_theme>  in the file name
7. 7. Renamed files will disappear from your list, then once you have no more results, you are done.

Now copy your <new_theme> folder into your "<moodle>/theme " folder

Run Moodle and follow administration/update instructions

You need to remember that if you are using a 3rd Party theme, once it updates, or you update your Moodle, you may need to go over this process again.  Use it responsibly.

Once you have completed Your Project Configuration

1. Update your host file in Windows located at

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Be sure to edit it with admin privileges

Add an entry as

127.0.0.1 test.my-application

Save it

2. Take note of my-application\public folder from Eclipse, making right click and Clicking on properties

2. Setup Apache 

Look for http-vhost

usually at

C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra

add

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "%path to my-application\public"
ServerName test.my-application
ServerAlias test.my-application
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
ErrorLog "logs/test.cuny.dahsboards"
<Directory "%path to my-application\public">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Document Root and Directory will be the path that you obtained from Eclipse for your public folder

ServerName and ServerAlias will be the ones that you created in host file

Save it

3. Restart Apache

4. In your browser and type

http://test.my-application

You should see something like

1. 1. Create a New Empty Composer Project
2. 

   Eclipse New Composer Project

    

    

   2. Give a name to the project.  Use lower cases and no spaces

Name your project

3. Confirm the namespace

Confirm namespace

4. Update Composer

Update Composer

5. Navigate to CMD and run

php composer.phar create-project -sdev laminas/laminas-mvc-skeleton my-application

And follow the prompts

Now you have a new folder with your project and the basics as referenced at here by Laminas

You can See how to setup Apache and XAMPP to test your app in a Browser