By JohnnyHa on

Starting a new theme from scratch, and i have looked at all the variables from Drupal.org which is kinda explained but not in detail.

Like if i do print $content it will output my entire article with

Title by author
Article content
Comment link

I kinda need to control every aspect of this, is it anyway i can output just the title , or just the article content ? I need to do it that cause i have a very unique design i am gonna put it into. So i cant have Drupal outputting entire contents without me controlling every aspect of it hehe.

And how do you output the user menu ? So i can edit profile and visit Administration Area.
I see default themes have it, but tried several variables and cant seem to output it. Which variable does it come from ?

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ainigma32 commented

This should get you started: http://drupal.org/theme-guide

Try reading through and then post back any questions that pop up.

HTH

Arie

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JohnnyHa commented

I have read it but it only covers some basics behind a theme.
Just want to know every variable so i can output what i want to show.

Just to give you an idea.

<div id="news">
<?php print $newstitle ?>
<?php print $newscontent ?>
<?php print $comments ?>
</div>

Just an fast and rough example here. Just need to know what the variables are called for all of this, not only this but for showing loginbar as well :)

Couldnt find any info on this at drupal.org.

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ainigma32 commented

Use a preprocess function to dump the variables array:

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  echo '<pre>'. print_r($vars) .'</pre>';
}

Alternatively you can use the Devel module to inspect the variables that are available.

HTH

Arie

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JohnnyHa commented

Any specific requirements for this to work ? Tried inputting:

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  echo '<pre>'. print_r($vars) .'</pre>';
}

in my page.tpl.php file but nothing was shown.

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ainigma32 commented

Stick it in the template.php and it should work.

- Arie

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JohnnyHa commented

Hmm nothing, it should come up at the front of the page ? Nothing is shown here. Weird.

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ainigma32 commented

Here?

- Arie

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JohnnyHa commented

; $Id$
name = Test
description = Test theme.
version = 1.0
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate

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ainigma32 commented

Seems to work at my end:

/themes/test/test.info :
- Exactly what you posted -

/themes/test/page.tpl.php :

<html>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
</body>
</html>

/themes/test/template.php :

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  echo '<pre>'. print_r($vars) .'</pre>';
}

And you just get a blank screen?

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JohnnyHa commented

Yeah all i got is the word Test from the page.tpl.php file. Everything else is blank .

My themefolder only has .info , page.tpl.php ,style.css and template.php.

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ainigma32 commented

Or was that just a typo?

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JohnnyHa commented

yeah its called test.info :)

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ainigma32 commented

That's really the last thing I can come up with.

Next thing you could try though is to install the Devel module and see what kind of info it gives you.

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JohnnyHa commented

Also done that, installed the devel module and enabled logging but i cant see anything special when viewing my theme. Should variables come up automaticly ?
Anyways appreciate your help.

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ainigma32 commented

See here http://drupal.org/node/209561

That should get you started with Devel. Hope you find the problem. I'm starting to get very curious as to why you can't see the output of the print_r statement.

- Arie

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JohnnyHa commented

Got Devel to work now, awesome :) But Devel fins function names. Like i found in my news the function is called phptemplate_node_submitted.
How do i output it in my theme ? I tried $phptemplate_node_submitted and $test_node_submitted but didnt work.

Sorry for dumb questions but this CMS confuses me :)