Portal customization

LemonLDAP::NG is shipped with 3 skins:

• pastel
• impact
• dark

But you can make your own, see Skin customization below.

You can change the default skin in Manager: General Parameters > Portal > Customization > Default skin.

You might want to display different skin depending on the URL that was called before being redirected to the portal, or the IP address of the user.

To achieve this, you can create a rule in the Manager: select General Parameters > Portal > Customization > Skin display rules on click on “New key”. Then fill the two fields;

• Rule: a Perl expression (you can use %ENV hash to get environment variables, or $_url to get URL called before redirection, or $ipAddr to use user IP address). If the rule evaluation is true, the corresponding skin is applied.
• Skin: the name of the skin to use.

A skin is composed of different files:

• .tpl: Perl HTML::Template files, for HTML content
• .css: CSS (styles)
• .js: Javascript
• images and other media files

A skin will often refer to the common skin, which is not a real skin, but shared skin objects (like scripts, images and CSS).

To customize a skin, the simplest way is to create a new skin folder:

cd portal/skins
mkdir myskin
mkdir myskin/css
mkdir myskin/images

Then create symbolic links on template files, as you might not want to rewrite all HTML code (else, do as you want).

cd myskin
ln -s ../pastel/*.tpl .

We include some template files that can be customized:

• customhead.tpl : HTML header markups (like CSS, js inclusion)
• customheader.tpl : HTML code int the header div
• customfooter.tpm : HTML code in the footer div

To use custom files, delete links and copy them into your skin folder:

rm custom*
cp ../pastel/custom* .

Then you only have to write myskin/css/styles.css and add your media to myskin/images. Put all custom HTML code in the custom template files.

To configure your new skin in Manager, select the custom skin, and enter your skin name in the configuration field.

Error messages are defined in source code. If they really do not please you, override them! You just need to know the ID of the error (look at Portal/Simple.pm) and then add to lemonldap-ng.ini:

[portal]
 
# Custom error messages
error_0 = Big brother is watching you, authenticated user

Template parameters are defined in source code. If you need to add a template parameter for your customization, then add to lemonldap-ng.ini:

[portal]
 
# Custom template parameters
tpl_myparam = world

Then you will be able to use it in your template like this:

Hello <TMPL_VAR NAME="myparam">!

• Auto complete: allow the browser to remember the password (for password based authentication backends)
• Check last logins: displays a checkbox on login form, allowing user to check his login history right after opening session
• User attribute: which session attribute will be used to display Connected as in the menu
• New window: open menu links in new window
• Anti iframe protection: will kill parent frames to avoid some well known attacks
• Password Management:
  • Reset password: display a link to reset a password (for password based authentication backends)
  • Require old password: used only in the password changing module of the menu, will check the old password before updating it
  • Hide old password: used only if the password need to be reset by the user (LDAP password policy), will hide the old password input
  • Send mail on password change: send a mail if the password is changed from the Menu, or from forced password reset (LDAP password policy)