Manual:Skinning/Vector

How to create a skin FooBar based on the default skin Vector (any name other than FooBar will do of course) in MediaWiki 1.17/1.18

Copy Vector

 * copy directory  to
 * copy  to
 * copy  to
 * in, change:
 * into
 * into
 * ,  into  ,
 * into
 * leave other 'vector' occurrences intact, unless you're going to add all vector-related system messages...
 * register your skin's module by putting the following in  and then including it in LocalSettings.php with

Colors
The color scheme used in vector is primarily maintained in a bunch of images in  driven by
 * : color of borders of the contents area
 * : background of page apart from contents
 * : color fade at top of page

Example
See /Example for a working example.

MediaWiki 1.19
Follow the Steps from the first Section but don't create the file  and don't link in in your Localsettings.php. Instead add the following at the end of  method of your class   (after  :