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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

Including a JavaScript file only for certain pages


This recipe will list the steps required to include a JavaScript file from a module rather than a theme. Unlike themes, modules offer a lot more options on when and how JavaScript files should be included. We will be taking advantage of this feature to ensure that our JavaScript is being included only for node pages.

We will be testing this by outputting the standard Hello World! string as we saw in the previous recipe.

Getting ready

We will be using the mysite module created earlier in this book to hold our odds and ends. It is assumed that this module has been created and is enabled.

How to do it...

The following steps are to be performed inside the mysite module folder at sites/all/modules/mysite.

  1. If it does not already exist, create a folder within titled js.

  2. Inside this new folder, create a file named hello.js and open it in an editor.

  3. Insert the following JavaScript:

    Drupal.behaviors.mysiteHello = function (context) {
    alert("Hello World!!"...