Drupal Theming Introduction

Slide 1: Drupal Theme Introduction Bèr Kessels – Webschuur.com ber@webschuur.com

Slide 2: « Theme Basics » « Workflow » « Theming in Drupal 6.0 »

Slide 3: Principle of Overrides

Slide 4: Default » Theme » Your version

Slide 5: Theme =

Slide 6: Theme = Engine

Slide 7: Theme = Engine + Template

Slide 8: Theme = Engine + Template + Style

Slide 9: Egines: Smarty, Xtemplate, Whatever PHPTemplate

Slide 10: PHP = Template language!

Slide 11: <?php if (!empty($title)): ?> <h2 class=”title”><?php print $title ?></h2> <? endif; ?>

Slide 12: More then Style

Slide 13: Look and Feel

Slide 14: Drupal.org | Bluemarine

Slide 15: Donna.be

Slide 16: The Onion

Slide 17: Drupal design Workflow How to Organize Theming

Slide 18: Nothing is leading

Slide 19: Without a site no theme Without a theme no site

Slide 20: Start early: lots of theme work re-done Start last: lots of module work re-done

Slide 21: Wall? Or Ping-Pong?

Slide 22: Theming in Drupal 6.0 Details found online. http://drupal.org/node/132442

Slide 23: .info: files Put your logic where it belongs.

Slide 24: tpl.php files much more powerfull

Slide 25: ...but still inconsistent

Slide 26: Consistency: More rendering via structures!

Slide 27: ...but by far not consistant enough. Volunteers?

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