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Principle of Overrides

Default » Theme » Your version

Theme =

Theme = Engine

Theme = Engine + Template

Theme = Engine + Template + Style

Egines: Smarty, Xtemplate, Whatever PHPTemplate

PHP = Template language!

<?php if (! empty ( $title )): ?> <h2 class = ”title” ><?php print $title ?></h2> <? endif ; ?>

More then Style

Look and Feel

Drupal.org | Bluemarine

Donna.be

The Onion

Drupal design Workflow How to Organize Theming

Nothing is leading

Without a site no theme Without a theme no site

Start early: lots of theme work re-done Start last: lots of module work re-done

Wall? Or Ping-Pong?

Theming in Drupal 6.0 Details found online. http://drupal.org/node/132442

.info: files Put your logic where it belongs.

tpl.php files much more powerfull

...but still inconsistent

Consistency: More rendering via structures!

...but by far not consistant enough. Volunteers?

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