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Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

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Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

Overview of this book

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a website to fit your needs. The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design, which, when done right, allows developers to customize every aspect of the site. Although it might sound easy to customize the look of your site, it's not a cakewalk to build custom themes that are easy to administer and maintain.Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of Drupal's extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide, which will allow users looking to theme their Drupal sites to do so by taking full advantage of Drupal's theming system. It covers numerous aspects from creating custom themes to using the powerful CCK, Views, and Panels modules to create rich designs that are easy to administer and maintain.Structured as a collection of recipes to perform a wide variety of tasks, this book will guide readers through most important aspects of Drupal theming. It starts off with recipes dealing with the basics of Drupal's theme system: you will find recipes for solving all your problems with regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom theme and using it to modify the layout and style of the content that is output on a page. A substantial number of recipes are dedicated to Drupal's template system, which will provide you with a solid foundation in order to override the output of Drupal and contributed modules. Furthermore, as the combination of modules such as CCK, Views, and Panels is so widely prevalent, chapters have been dedicated for each of these modules. With this book, you'll learn to get the most out of Drupal's templating system and its modules to create rich designs for your site.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Merging columns with the Views table style plugin


In this recipe, we will be looking at using the table plugin's column combination feature to merge multiple columns together. In particular, we will be modifying the inbuilt content tracker view to treat nodes of type product differently.

Getting ready

We will be using the product node type created earlier in this chapter. We will also be using the ImageCache module to create a thumbnail which will fit inside a row of the tracker table. Create an ImageCache preset named tracker_thumb which performs a Scale and Crop operation to create a thumbnail of size 20px x 20px as in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

Navigate to the Views administration page at admin/build/views (Home | Administer | Site building | Views) and locate the view named tracker. If it is not already enabled, do so and subsequently click on its Edit link. Click on the Page display on the left and perform the following steps:

  1. In the section denoting the fields of the view...