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Theming Basics For Drupal 7 Series

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1. Introduction to Theming Basics for Drupal 7 FREE 19m
2. Preparing a site for theming 8m
3. Enabling themes and theme settings 7m
4. Translating a design into a Drupal theme 5m
5. Helpful browser extensions for Drupal theming 4m
6. Creating the .info file and adding CSS 10m
7. Customizing the page template file 23m
8. Adding regions to the page template 16m
9. Customizing the node template 24m
10. Creating dynamic templates for specific node types 8m
11. Using the theme developer module 6m
12. Adding JavaScript to a theme 16m
13. Tour of popular page template variables 12m
14. Adding a screenshot to your theme 4m
15. Conclusion to Theming Basics 3m
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Shows how to create a theme template suggestion for a specific node type. In this chapter, we create a dynamic template for the article node type by copying the node.tpl.php into a node--article.tpl.php where the 'article' is the machine-readable name for the article content type. We add some specific styling to the node author submission information as well as the date. We also discuss how Drupal looks for the most specific template suggestion (i.e. the node id), then moves to more and more generalized template files like the content type, and then the node.tpl.php as the most general. The Drupal.org documentation page that we look at can be found at http://drupal.org/node/1089656.

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stevieb on October 28, 2011 - 9:38am

Another dense but very thorough and practical walk-thru. What I particularly like about Joe's presentations is that he takes the time to explain new code and variables. Small exception with the 'field_tags' element here-- it's origins are not explained.

joe on October 31, 2011 - 10:28am

@stevieb. The field_tags variable relates to the corresponding tags field on the article content type. For every field you have on your node the $content variable will contain the rendered content of that node in a key that is the name of the field. So in this case $content['field_tags'] contains all of the tags applied to the node. Hope that helps clarify where it came from if not let me know and I can try and explain further.

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