ATK Configuration

Below is a categorized list of configuration options. This page is far from complete. If you encounter a configuration value in ATK that is not listed here, please help us improve the documentation by adding it.

Within a category, the options are listed alphabetically.

Database Configuration

$config_db["default"]["driver"]

Which database driver to use

Possible values : mysql,mysqli,mysql41,mssql,oci805,oci8,oci9,pgqsl,db2,i5

Default : mysql

$config_edit_fieldprefix

This configoption sets the default fieldprefix for all fields in all nodes to use in ATK. If you only want to use the fieldprefix for some of the nodes in your ATK application use the setEditFieldPrefix method of the atknode class instead.

Possible values : Text with the fieldprefix

Default : N/A

GUI Configuration

$config_menu_align

how the menu aligns. This is not a standard config variable, so you can't find it in config.inc.php

Possible values : left, center, right

Default : center

$config_menu_layout

A theme defines which menus it supports. (because the layout is very theme specific so it doesn't support all of them). If a theme supports multiple menu's, then you can choose one by defining $config_menu_layout. However, if a menu is selected that is not supported by the theme, the theme will fallback to the first menu it does support.

Possible values : Set by $theme['compatible_menus'] in themedef.inc

Default : first menu supported by the theme.

$config_recordlistorientation

Place the recordlist action icons on the left or right of recordlists.

Possible values : right, left, both

Default : right

$config_recordlistvorientation

Place the column headers (fieldname, searchfields etc.) at the top or bottom of recordlists.

Possible values : top, bottom, both

Default : top

$config_recordsperpage

The number of records to display in a list of records. If there are more records than this number, previous/next links and page numbers will be added.

Possible values : positive number

Default : 25

Relations

$config_manytoone_autocomplete_minchars

The number of characters a user must type before a manytoonerelation starts to do autocompletion

Possible values : Number higher than 0

Default : 2

Auth Config

$config_auth_enablepasswordmailer = true;

This will put an extra button on the longin screen to have a password sent to the email address regered for the username entered. Of note, the following options must also be set for this to work:

• $config_auth_usernode = "module.nodename";
• $config_auth_usertable = "user_tablename";
• $config_auth_userfield = "username_fieldname";
• $config_auth_emailfield = "useremail_fieldname";
• $config_auth_passwordfield = "userpassword_fieldname";

Possible values : True

Default : N/A

$config_auth_loginpage = 'http://myurl';

For applications that do not want to use the atk login form or the htaccess box this config variable can contain an url to redirect to instead of displaying the login form of ATK.

Possible values : Text with the url

Default : N/A