Themes outside application - php

Question

I read this post and I want to use similar solution, but with db.
In my site controller after():
$theme = $page->get_theme_name(); //Orange
Kohana::set_module_path('themes', Kohana::get_module_path('themes').'/'.$theme);
$this->template = View::factory('layout')
I checked with firebug:
fire::log(Kohana::get_module_path('themes')); // D:\tools\xampp\htdocs\kohana\themes/Orange
I am sure that path exists. I have directly in 'Orange' folder 'views' folder with layout.php file.
But I am getting: The requested view layout could not be found
Extended Kohana_Core is just:
public static function get_module_path($module_key) {
return self::$_modules[$module_key];
}
public static function set_module_path($module_key, $path) {
self::$_modules[$module_key] = $path;
}
Could anybody help me with solving that issue?
Maybe it is a .htaccess problem:
# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
# Put your installation directory here:
# If your URL is www.example.com/kohana/, use /kohana/
# If your URL is www.example.com/, use /
RewriteBase /kohana/
# Protect application and system files from being viewed
RewriteCond $1 ^(application|system|modules)
# Rewrite to index.php/access_denied/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ / [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(media) - [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(themes) - [PT,L]
# Allow these directories and files to be displayed directly:
# - index.php (DO NOT FORGET THIS!)
# - robots.txt
# - favicon.ico
# - Any file inside of the images/, js/, or css/ directories
RewriteCond $1 ^(index\.php|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico|static)
# No rewriting
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [PT,L]
# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [PT,L]
Could somebody help?
What I am doing wrong?
Regards
[EDIT]
My controller code:
class Controller_Site extends Controller_Fly {
public static $meta_names = array('keywords', 'descriptions', 'author');
public function action_main() {
$this->m('page')->get_main_page();
}
public function action_page($page_title) {
$this->m('page')->get_by_link($page_title);
}
public function after() {
$page = $this->m('page');
$metas = '';
foreach(self::$meta_names as $meta) {
if (! empty($page->$meta)) {
$metas .= html::meta($page->$meta, $meta).PHP_EOL;
}
}
$theme = $page->get_theme_name();
Kohana::set_module_path('themes', Kohana::get_module_path('themes').'/'.$theme);
$menus = $page->get_menus();
$this->template = View::factory('layout')
->set('theme', $theme)
->set('metas', $metas)
->set('menus', $menus['content'])
->set('sections', $page->get_sections())
->set_global('page', $page);
if ($page->header_on) {
$settings = $this->m('setting');
$this->template->header = View::factory('/header')
->set('title', $settings->title)
->set('subtitle', $settings->subtitle)
->set('menus', $menus['header']);
}
if ($page->sidebar_on) {
$this->template->sidebar = View::factory('sidebar', array('menus' => $menus['sidebar']));
}
if ($page->footer_on) {
$this->template->footer = View::factory('footer');
}
parent::after();
}
}
and parent controller:
abstract class Controller_Fly extends Controller_Template {
protected function m($model_name, $id = NULL) {
if (! isset($this->$model_name)) {
$this->$model_name = ORM::factory($model_name, $id);
}
return $this->$model_name;
}
protected function mf($model_name, $id = NULL) {
return ORM::factory($model_name, $id);
}
}
[Edit 2]
Previous link to post was dead, link was:
http://forum.kohanaframework.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=5744&page=1#Item_0

Answer 1

My guess is that your controller has a __construct() method and you aren't calling parent::__construct
Actually, I think for kohana V3 __construct needs to also be passed the $request object as follows:
public function __construct(Request $request)
{
parent::__construct($request);
}

Answer 2

I realized that I need to init all modules once again:
$theme = $page->get_theme_name();
Kohana::set_module_path('themes', Kohana::get_module_path('themes').'/'.$theme);
Kohana::modules(Kohana::get_modules());
Now I don't have an error. Instead I am getting white screen of death:
$this->template is null
:(
[EDIT]
Now I know, I had:
$this->template = View::factory('layout')
->set('theme', $theme)
->set('metas', $metas)
->set('menus', $menus['content'])
->set('sections', $page->get_sections())
->set_gobal('page', $page);
Ofcourse I forgot that set_global doesn't return $this :D
Anyway everything working now :)
I have one more question about efficiency. I am calling Kohana::modules() second time in request flow. Is this a big deal according to efficiency?
Regards