Local Customization

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Unless you are a software developer and want to modify Pie's principal behaviour, you are probably not interesed in the files below ${library_path}.

... and Form

You primarily configure the local customization of your site in untimeConfiguration|pie.ini, the global configuration file.

All HTML output that is being rendered at run-time consists of a header (${custom_path}/frame/*_head.php), the actual page's contents, and a footer/trailer (${custom_path}/frame/*_tail.php). You can modify the header and footer file in any way that suits your needs.

To change the system's language, edit the file specified via option default_locale.

Your site's overall graphical appearance is customized via CSS. Links to local pages, files, as well as external resources and e-mail addresses are all assigned their unique classes, respectively, and each link can be rendered in a different fashion, if this is what you prefer. Unlike most other Pie components, your site's CSS-directory must reside somewhere below the web server's document root. Otherwise, the browsers' HTTP-requests won't be able to retrieve its contents. You typically import CSS directives via second-stage HTTP-requests through your header files (like the frame files below ${custom_path}), but could also set up the style somewhere within the header file itself.