This book will describe the relevant steps used to create Drupal themes from raw HTML in a simple and lucid manner and save the energy and time wasted in irrelevant tasks.
Understanding Drupal jargon, covers the commonly used Drupal terminologies that are essential for theme development in Drupal. The heart of Drupal themes and theme engines will also be explained in this chapter.
Understanding Drupal's theme structure (Simple), covers the names of Drupal templates and pages and their meaning/work. Drupal's default themes will be explained here.
Configuring raw HTML in the Drupal environment (Simple), explains how an HTML file is configured in the Drupal environment using the knowledge acquired in the preceding two sections.
Breaking down HTML in parts (Intermediate), explains how to break down HTML regions of Drupal theme such as header, footer, and content.
Populating the Drupal theme with dynamic content (Advanced), explains the prerequisites to use Drupal template variables and how to use them.
Theme how tos (Advanced), introduces the commonly used code in Drupal theme development, which will save lot of time and energy.
To run the examples in the book, the following software will be required:
XAMPP or WAMP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
Drupal: https://drupal.org/download
This book is useful for developers who are new to Drupal. It's assumed that you have some experience in HTML,PHP, and CSS .Readers are expected to have the PHP (LAMP/WAMP) environment ready and working to install Drupal. It is assumed that the user is aware how to install Drupal. A little bit of familiarity with CMS is also expected from the user. Rest of the things have been taken care of in the book.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: "Go to your theme's .info file."
A block of code is set as follows:
Code [<?php
if (!$page) {
print "<h2><a href=\"$node_url\">$title</a></h2>";
}
if ($submitted) {
print "<span class=\"submitted\">$submitted</span>";
}
?>]New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on the Clear all caches button located at Administration | Configuration | Development | Performance."
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