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Drupal 5 Themes

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Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.
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Drupal 5 Themes
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Drupal 5 Themes
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewer
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About the Reviewer
Preface
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Preface
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The Elements of a Drupal Theme
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The Elements of a Drupal Theme
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What is a Theme?
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What is a Templating Engine?
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The Range and Flexibility of Drupal Themes
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What You See on the Screen
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The Big Picture: How Drupal Displays a Page
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The Importance of Themes in Drupal
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The Contents of the Drupal Distro
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The Theme Files
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Summary
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Theme Set Up and Configuration
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Theme Set Up and Configuration
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Finding Additional Themes
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Installing an Additional Theme
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Configuring a Theme
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Managing Modules and Blocks
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Theming in Action: Dressing Up Garland
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Uninstalling Themes
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Summary
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Working with Theme Engines
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Working with Theme Engines
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What is PHPTemplate?
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How does it Work?
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Getting Started with PHPTemplate
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Alternative Theme Engines
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Installing Additional Theme engines
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Summary
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Style Sheets and Themeable Functions
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Style Sheets and Themeable Functions
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A Guide to Drupal Style Sheets
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Identifying Themeable Functions
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A Guide to Themeable Functions
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Summary
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Intercepts and Overrides
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Intercepts and Overrides
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Overriding the Default CSS
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Overriding Functions
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Intercepting Template Files
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Summary
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Modifying an Existing Theme
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Modifying an Existing Theme
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Setting Up the Workspace
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Planning the Modifications
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Cloning a Theme
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First Look at Zen/Tao
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Turning Zen into Tao
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Summary
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Building a New Theme
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Building a New Theme
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Planning the Build
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Build a New PHPTemplate Theme
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Extending Your PHPTemplate Theme
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Build a New Pure PHP Theme
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Dealing with Forms
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Dealing with Forms
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How Forms Work in Drupal
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Modifying and Overriding Form Functions
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Common Form Issues
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The Default Forms
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Appendix A
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Appendix A

Chapter 3. Working with Theme Engines

In this chapter, we will explore theme engines in general and the default PHPTemplate theme engine in detail.

Our exploration of the PHPTemplate engine lays an important foundation for understanding how to create themes or how to extensively modify existing themes. In the examples below, we show the key files used in the process, and how they impact themes. We also discuss the order of precedence among theme files, and how this principle allows us to override the default template files inside individual themes.

We will also discuss the availability of alternatives to the PHPTemplate engine.

Though you don't need to be fluent in PHP to understand this chapter fully, a little familiarity with the programming language will certainly make things easier. The code examples in this chapter come from the Drupal core and the additional themes Gagarin (installed in Chapter 2) and Zen.

What is PHPTemplate?

PHPTemplate is one of a family of applications known as templating...

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