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Overriding Themeable Functions: The Where's, the Why's, and the How's

June 2, 2006 - 1:49pm

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There's good news and bad news. First, the good news: overriding theme functions is easy. The bad news: every theme function is different, and there isn't a standard proceedure of going about it; if you don't know what you are doing, its quite easy to accidently do something ugly, or foolish.

So, in the next few tutorials, we are going to explore the hows, whys, why nots, and what ifs of overriding theme functions. Each of these functions will present a different set of challenges, and opprotunities to do something stupid, etc. Today's lesson is "Building a better node form". In this tutorial you will learn

Extreme Drupal Theming with PHPtemplate

June 1, 2006 - 5:48pm

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Drupal's phptemplate is the most powerful, simple, and flexible templating/theming system on the planet*. Yet, it seems that the majority of drupal themers, (and wannabe drupal themers) are ignorant of its true power.

More disturbingly, vast numbers of people still insist that Joomla!, typo3, and wordpress's templating systems are easier, sexier, and slicker. These people are either loony, or wrong.

As an expert in PHPtemplate (isn't that scary), I've decided its my duty to show the true power of PHPtemplate to world.

Consider these tutorials, a proper (and steadily growing) introduction to drupal's templating system.

An Introduction: Dominating the User Login Form

May 28, 2006 - 11:05pm

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In this first tutorial, you will learn how to:

  1. override the default presentation of the user login form, and create a custom template for it.
  2. pass an editable node into the user login form
  3. alter the form’s values (such as text, and instructions)
  4. make the form available to page.tpl.php — as though it was something as simple as a footer.

Moreover, I will show you how bloody simple it is. Folks who follow this tutorial should already have:

  1. knowledge of PHP
  2. the ability to lie about a lack of knowledge of PHP
  3. some familiarity of the kindergarden basics of drupal theming
  4. Be working with drupal 4.7+

Step One: Override the deafult user login form

Overriding is always done in the theme’s template.php file (if you don’t have a template.php file, you may create a it now). Obviously, before you can override anything, you must first locate what you are trying to override. The best way to do this is to search a module for the $form variable.

On the Joys of Raising Free-Range node.tpl.php Links

April 10, 2006 - 7:35am

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Ah, chickens -- delicious chickens. Its a timeless truth, however, that not all chickens were born equal. And clearly, the best tasting chickens are those who've been allowed to feed, graze, and socialize on the open range.

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