Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook Table of contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Drupal Theme Basics
Chapter 2: Beyond the Basics
Chapter 3: Custom Themes and Zen
Chapter 4: Templating Basics
Chapter 5: Development and Debugging Tools
Chapter 6: Advanced Templating
Chapter 7: JavaScript in Themes
Chapter 8: Navigation
Chapter 9: Form Design
Chapter 10: Customizing CCK
Chapter 11: Views Theming
Chapter 12: Rapid Layouts with Panels
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Drupal Theme Basics
  • Introduction
  • Installing and enabling a theme
  • Uploading a new logo
  • Uploading a new favicon
  • Adding a slogan to the theme
  • Allowing users to choose from multiple themes
  • Displaying a different theme for administration
  • Adding an existing block to the theme
  • Adding a custom block to the theme
  • Displaying a block only on the front page
  • Controlling block visibility based on user role
  • Controlling block visibility based on node type

• Chapter 2: Beyond the Basics
  • Introduction
  • Understanding the anatomy of a theme
  • Creating a sub-theme based on a core theme
  • Overriding base theme elements in a sub-theme
  • Changing the screenshot image of a theme
  • Including a CSS file in a theme
  • Enabling CSS optimization
  • Creating the mysite module to hold our tweaks
  • Adding a CSS file from a module
  • Displaying a different theme for each day of the week
  • Creating a fresh look using the color module

• Chapter 3: Custom Themes and Zen
  • Introduction
  • Clearing the theme registry
  • Creating a theme from scratch
  • Creating myzen, a Zen-based theme
  • Choosing a CSS layout for myzen
  • Overriding Zen template files with myzen
  • Adding a custom region to myzen
  • Adding a background image to the theme
  • Adding a conditional stylesheet in Zen
  • Modifying myzen's theme settings

• Chapter 4: Templating Basics
  • Introduction
  • Changing the layout of a page using page.tpl.php
  • Customizing the appearance of a particular node type
  • Customizing the appearance of a specific node
  • Theming made easy using the Devel module
  • Theme overrides using the Theme developer module
  • Listing all available variables in a template file
  • Displaying the profile name instead of a username
  • Styling the site maintenance page

• Chapter 5: Development and Debugging Tools
  • Introduction
  • Finding the right function to use to theme an object
  • Analyzing variables using the Devel module
  • Generating sample content using the Devel generate module
  • Resetting the default theme manually
  • Live preview with Web Developer
  • Validating HTML and CSS using Web Developer
  • Turning off JavaScript in the browser
  • Disabling CSS in the browser
  • Inspecting elements and debugging CSS using Firebug
  • Diagnostic logging of JavaScript using Firebug

• Chapter 6: Advanced Templating
  • Introduction
  • Adding a variable to all node templates
  • Deleting a variable from the page template
  • Adding a custom theme setting
  • Hiding all regions on a page
  • Displaying the last updated date instead of the submitted date
  • Module-based variable manipulation
  • Optimizing using hook_preprocess()
  • Displaying the date field in calendar form

• Chapter 7: JavaScript in Themes
  • Introduction
  • Including JavaScript files from a theme
  • Including a JavaScript file only for certain pages
  • Giving the username textfield keyboard focus
  • Exporting a variable from PHP to JavaScript
  • Adding default text to the search textfield
  • Displaying comments in compact form
  • Adding column-sort functionality to tables
  • Minimizing and maximizing blocks using JavaScript

• Chapter 8: Navigation
  • Introduction
  • Adding a menu to our theme
  • Adding content pages to the menu
  • Styling the primary links menu
  • Contextual submenus using the Menu module
  • Adding a drop-down navigation menu
  • Customizing breadcrumbs in Zen-based themes
  • Hiding node links using CSS
  • Styling all external links in a page
  • Styling the Drupal pager

• Chapter 9: Form Design
  • Introduction
  • Finding the form ID of a form
  • Changing the height of a textarea
  • Turning off the resize feature for textareas
  • Replacing Drupal's textareas with a WYSIWYG HTML editor
  • Reordering fields in a form
  • Replacing a standard submit button with an image button
  • Styling the comment form
  • Using a fieldset to group fields
  • Theming form elements
  • Adding class attributes to form elements

• Chapter 10: Customizing CCK
  • Introduction
  • Creating a custom node type
  • Hiding fields and labels during display
  • Displaying fields together using field groups
  • Theming CCK content using hook_nodeapi()
  • Theming a CCK field using a template file
  • Adding image support using the ImageField module
  • Using ImageCache to scale and crop images on the fly
  • Adding lightbox support for images

• Chapter 11: Views Theming
  • Introduction
  • Creating a simple view
  • Styling a node listing using a grid display
  • Merging columns with the Views table style plugin
  • Embedding a view inside a node template
  • Overriding the Views table style plugin
  • Adding a class to a Views style
  • Creating a custom Views style plugin

• Chapter 12: Rapid Layouts with Panels
  • Introduction
  • Using Panels to create a front-page layout
  • Embedding content in a panel
  • Styling a panel with rounded corners
  • Creating custom styles with the Panel stylizer module
  • Changing the layout of a panel
  • Creating a custom panel layout
  • Replacing the site contact page with a panel
  • Embedding tabbed panels in blocks

• Index