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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.

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Drupal 5 Themes
Dec, 2007 | 260 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 5 Themes
Drupal 5 Themes
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Elements of a Drupal Theme
The Elements of a Drupal Theme
What is a Theme?
What is a Templating Engine?
The Range and Flexibility of Drupal Themes
What You See on the Screen
The Big Picture: How Drupal Displays a Page
The Importance of Themes in Drupal
The Contents of the Drupal Distro
The Theme Files
Summary
2
Theme Set Up and Configuration
Theme Set Up and Configuration
Finding Additional Themes
Installing an Additional Theme
Configuring a Theme
Managing Modules and Blocks
Theming in Action: Dressing Up Garland
Uninstalling Themes
Summary
3
Working with Theme Engines
Working with Theme Engines
What is PHPTemplate?
How does it Work?
Getting Started with PHPTemplate
Alternative Theme Engines
Installing Additional Theme engines
Summary
4
Style Sheets and Themeable Functions
Style Sheets and Themeable Functions
A Guide to Drupal Style Sheets
Identifying Themeable Functions
A Guide to Themeable Functions
Summary
5
Intercepts and Overrides
Intercepts and Overrides
Overriding the Default CSS
Overriding Functions
Intercepting Template Files
Summary
6
Modifying an Existing Theme
Modifying an Existing Theme
Setting Up the Workspace
Planning the Modifications
Cloning a Theme
First Look at Zen/Tao
Turning Zen into Tao
Summary
7
Building a New Theme
Building a New Theme
Planning the Build
Build a New PHPTemplate Theme
Extending Your PHPTemplate Theme
Build a New Pure PHP Theme
Summary
8
Dealing with Forms
Dealing with Forms
How Forms Work in Drupal
Modifying and Overriding Form Functions
Common Form Issues
The Default Forms
Summary
Appendix A
Appendix A

Finding Additional Themes

There are several factors to consider when determining the suitability of an existing theme.

The first issue is compatibility. Due to changes made to Drupal in the 5.x series, older themes will not work properly with Drupal 5.x. Accordingly, your first step is to determine which version of Drupal you are running.

To find the version information for your installation, go to Administer | Logs | Status Report. The first line of the Status Report tabular data will show your version number.

The Status Report screen showing Drupal version number. Note also this screen includes other useful information, like your MySQL and PHP version numbers

Note

If you do not see the Status Report option, then you are probably using a Drupal version earlier than 5.x. We suggest you upgrade as this book is for Drupal 5.x.

If you know your Drupal version, you can confirm whether the theme you are considering is usable on your system. If the theme you are looking at doesn't provide versioning...

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