X-Cart forums - Simple Theme Switching

This may have been posted already, but to implement a simple theme switching, so that you might show a client a new theme on a store, add the following to init.php (around line 550):

PHP Code:


		
			
include_once($xcart_dir . '/include/data_cache.php');

//Rubymods
//home.php?alt_skin=20_3-columns
if ($_GET['alt_skin'])
  $config['alt_skin'] = $_GET['alt_skin'];

/**
 * Initialize alt_skin feature
 */
list($altSkinsInfo, $alt_skin_info, $alt_skin_dir) = func_get_alt_skin();

This will allow you to switch themes by specifying an 'alt_skin' GET parameter in your URL and giving it the value of the theme (get the theme values from your admin at: admin/configuration.php?option=Appearance if you look at the select values for themes).

e.g. home.php?alt_skin=20_3-columns

Hope this helps someone.
Rubyaryat