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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

The Default Forms


The default Drupal distro includes a number of forms for the front-end user. Some are active at installation, others need to be enabled and configured by the administrator. On the following pages, we go through the default forms and provide a quick look at each, giving the information you need to work on and highlighting any special concerns unique to each particular form.

The User Forms

The user forms consist of the Login Forms, the User Registration Form, the Request Password Form, and the User Information Editing Form. All the functions relating to the user forms are found at modules/user/user.module.

The Login Forms

The Login Form exists in two varieties: The Login Block Form and the Login Page Form.

The Login Form appears both as a Block (aka, the Login Block Form) and in the content region (aka, the Login Page Form). Note the Login Page also includes links to new account registration (aka, the User Registration Form) and the Request Password Form.

The Login Block Form...