How to set theme setting

Question

i need to set theme setting programmatically. I use mothership theme. So for example:

$type = theme_get_setting('mothership_classes_view');
dpm($type);
//dpm displays 1 - so this setting is checked
//i need to uncheck it, set it to 0

i can't find a function to do this, what is the best way to set it?

Answer 1

As you can see in the code of theme_get_settings(), if data is not in cache, it's obtained from variables:

// Get the saved global settings from the database.
$cache[$theme] = array_merge($cache[$theme], variable_get('theme_settings', array()));

if ($theme) {
  // Get the saved theme-specific settings from the database.
  $cache[$theme] = array_merge($cache[$theme], variable_get('theme_' . $theme . '_settings', array()));

So usually when you need to change them from code, you will need to use good old variable_set(). And don't forget to clear the cache.

Answer 2

The actual answer is this:

// Get the settings
$mothership_settings = variable_get('theme_mothership_settings', array());

// Set the variable
$mothership_settings['mothership_classes_view'] = 0;

// Save our settings
variable_set('theme_mothership_settings', $mothership_settings);

This is perfect for an update hook to run, and doesn't seem to (in my case) need a cache clear afterwards.

This can be abstracted to any theme, Drupal stores the settings in the theme_THEMENAME_settings variable. As Pierre mentions, you can also do this in the .info file of the theme but this is only a good idea when you are extending a base theme (as you don't want to overwrite contrib .info files).

Answer 3

You can also set the default value for a theme setting fron the theme .info file.

settings[mothership_classes_view] = foo