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April 8, 2010
Drupal 6 provides many avenues to modify its appearance, including ways to theme a form. Recently I themed all node edit forms at once. I will share here how I did it.
The usual...
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January 28, 2009
Perusing the themes available on drupal.org reveals that there are over seven starter themes for Drupal 6 in addition to Zen, the original "starter" theme for Drupal. Starter or "...
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August 16, 2008
Once of the biggest advances "under the hood" in Drupal 6 is the addition of the preprocess architecture to the theme layer. This is part and parcel with the deeper...
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June 8, 2008
There comes a time in the life of every young child when begin to dress yourself. No longer are you content with the dorky collared shirt your mother laid out for you each morning...
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February 19, 2008
With the release of Drupal 6.0, there have been major steps forward in the theme layer. Two of the most important are the standardization of template files and their associated...
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February 14, 2008
Just a little to the left please. Flip it around. Put that on top of this. Call it by a different name. It is the little changes, that seem trivial and small, that often end up...
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May 30, 2007
Navigation. Without it, we'd all be lost. And yet, for many of us power-users site navigation can be something of an afterthought, with "a useful set of links" falling somewhere...
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April 27, 2007
The PHPTemplate system in Drupal is a powerful theming system. However, because it is written in PHP it is easy to abuse since it is possible to directly inject PHP logic into...
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April 27, 2007
When theming things I run into situations where a block of text is too long and I need a really quick way to truncate text and append an ellipses or custom trailing text. The...