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Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

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Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating a Custom Theme


In this section, we will investigate a few strategies for creating custom themes. We will create a custom theme, initially changing only CSS stylesheets, and then move on to a more sophisticated theme, making use of custom templates. Finally, we will create some PHP code that works more closely with the theme system itself. We will even implement a theme hook to provide a higher degree of customization for our theme.

Organization of Themes

In Drupal 6, themes are organized similarly to modules. Inside the main Drupal directory is a themes/ folder, which in turn has a number of subfolders, each named after the theme it provides:

These are the main "top level" themes that come with Drupal 6: Bluemarine, Chameleon, Garland, and Pushbutton. Later in the book, we will talk about sub-themes, (or derivative themes,) which are not visible here at the top level. By convention, they exist in subfolders within the "top level" theme that they rely upon.

Note

Theme engines are stored...