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Drupal 5 Themes

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Drupal 5 Themes

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Appendix A

Summary


Intercepts and overrides are your most powerful techniques for controlling Drupal site output. In this chapter, we covered how to intercept and override both the default Drupal CSS and the themeable functions and templates.

The technique requires an understanding of Drupal naming conventions and an appreciation for the hierarchies that dictate precedence. Proper use of the naming conventions will enable you to extensively customize Drupal's appearance.

This chapter also included a discussion of various alternative techniques for handling themeable functions, together with the advantages of each. Together with good planning, the step-by-step instructions should allow you to implement overrides of themeable functions in a variety of manners.