Dynamically Switching DotNetNuke StyleSheets with the Current Language

If your design requires you to embed text in an image in a multi-lingual DotNetNuke website, embed your text into images and switch them with CSS.

Simply override the styles from the base module.css stylesheet in a separate stylesheet and switch them dynamically using the following line of code directly in your skin:

<link href="<%= SkinPath %>languagespecific-<% =CType(Page, PageBase).PageCulture.Name %>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

This will be rendered as the filename languagespecific-en-US.css in the root of your skin for the default DNN language and switch every time the user switches their language.

Happy Nuking,

Ryan Morgan
Arrow Consulting & Design

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Hiding Sections from Unauthenticated Users in DotNetNuke Skins and DNN Skin Conversions

A lot of times, when creating a DotNetNuke skin, I find the need to hide a certain link, text or skinobject in my dnn skin to users that are not logged in. There is a super-simple way to do this, if you add in a little server side code into your skin conversion.

For this example, I wanted to hide the User DotNetNuke skin object. This is for an e-commerce website, so it made sense to only have users register during the checkout process and hide the "Register" link that shows up to unauthenticated users.

<% If Request.IsAuthenticated Then%>
<%dnn:user id="dnUser" runat="server"%>
<%% End If%%>

The way this works is that anything within that server-side if statement is displayed at runtime if the user is logged in.

You could also switch it so that you have a section that only shows up in your skin if the user if not authenticated by changing it to

<% If Not Request.IsAuthenticated Then%>
<%span class="NormalRed"%> You're Not Logged In!<%/span%>
<%% End If%%>

If you're interested in creating custom role access for sections of skins, checkout my last blog post here: http://dotnetnuke-skin.blogspot.com/2008/08/creating-custom-role-to-display-admin.html

Happy Nuking,
Ryan Morgan
Arrow Consulting & Design


Arrow Consulting & Design is a consulting firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida specializing in DotNetNuke, ASP.NET, SQL and WPF Development with a portfolio filled with local, national, government and global enterprise clients.

Case Studies: Click Here
Main Corporate Site: http://www.arrowdesigns.com/default.aspx?utm_source=blogspot
DotNetNuke Community Site: http://www.arrownuke.com/default.aspx?utm_source=blogspot
Consulting Inquiries: Click Here
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