Drupal 7: page-user-login.tpl.php

I just wrote an entire blog post on this last week: http://dannyenglander.com/blog/customizing-user-login-page-drupal-7

It should give you everything you need.

Whatever I try on my drupal 7 .. i cannot get the above to work. I am using Marinelli as my theme, but I also tried the above with Bartik and others that come with drupal.

Below is what i have in my template.php

/**
 * Overrides of theme implementations
 */
function marinelli_theme() {

  return array(
    'custom_links' => array( // function that renders classic primary menu with <h2> 
      'variables' => array('links' => NULL, 'attributes' => NULL, 'heading' => NULL),
    ),
    'mega_menu' => array(
      'variables' => array('menu' => NULL),
    ),
    'mbanner_text' => array(
      // 'variables' => array('text' => NULL),
    ),
    'mbanner_nav'  => array(
      'variables' => array('prev' => NULL, 'next' => NULL),
    ),

    'user_login' => array(
      'template' => 'user-login',
      'variables' => array('form' => NULL), ## you may remove this line in this case
    ),
    'user_register' => array(
      'template' => 'user-register',
      'variables' => array('form' => NULL), ## you may remove this line in this case
    ),
    'user_pass' => array(
      'template' => 'user-pass',
      'variables' => array('form' => NULL), ## you may remove this line in this case
    ),

  );
}

function marinelli_preprocess_user_login(&$variables) {
$variables['form'] = drupal_build_form('user_login', user_login(array(),$form_state)); ## I have to build the user login myself.
}

I have the folling file in my themes/marinelli/templates/ folder

page--user-login.tpl.php

I aso tried with

user-lgin.tpl.php

but it still loads my page.tpl.php page. As a workaround I have in my page.tpl.php

<?php
	
	 if (!$user->uid) { //check to see if the user is logged in. If not display the special login page layout
	?>

Not the solution I am looking for :(

I see so much trouble for simple things. I just scrolled for a bunch of posts how to theme the "Login Page" but actually people are theming the login block, imitating each other posts all over their blogs and websites.


Do you want to achieve a minimal designed and beautiful page like this?
Login page: http://s10.postimg.org/42qaumbbt/login.png
Password page: http://s22.postimg.org/lv2psotsh/password.png

1 )
Create the login and password empty page files and place them in your theme "templates" folder.
The name of the files are page--user--login.tpl.php and page--user--password.tpl.php. There's no need of all those steps of "hook", "alter", blablabla... Drupal will use those files automatically without any call or whatever.

2 )
Put this code inside your files.

page--user--login.tpl.php

<?php print $messages; ?>

<?php print drupal_render(drupal_get_form('user_login')); ?>
<a href="user/password">Request new password"</a>

page--user--password.tpl.php

<?php print $messages; ?>

<?php print drupal_render(drupal_get_form('user_pass')); ?>
<a href="user/login">Go back</a>

3 )
Done!
In thee steps. Now style your css as much you need and pimp your new fancy login page. "Inspect" your html output of your new login page and see how clean it is now. ; D

Afterwords )
I just spent this last hour reading posts and questions about this all over the internet, and the work around in some cases are simply crazy like using the dpm(get_defined_vars()); function, copying html and paste all of those input forms and attributes, blablabla.
I didn't found a concise post like this. It's crazy!!!

Also, you will need (if you still don't have it and if you want it) to disable "label/description" and enable "placehover" for the inputs. You can do it all together like this:

/*
 *  Remove labels and add HTML5 placeholder attribute to login form
 */
function THEMENAME_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ( TRUE === in_array( $form_id, array( 'user_login', 'user_login_block') ) )
    $form['name']['#attributes']['placeholder'] = t( 'Username' );
    $form['pass']['#attributes']['placeholder'] = t( 'Password' );
    $form['name']['#title_display'] = "invisible";
    $form['pass']['#title_display'] = "invisible";
}



/*
 *  Remove login form descriptions
 */
function THEMENAME_form_user_login_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
    $form['name']['#description'] = t('');
    $form['pass']['#description'] = t('');
}

PS )
Do you have the "header", "footer" and "sidebar" visible and want to remove them too? No problem.
Go to #overlay=admin/structure/block and click "configure". Scroll down and include this on "Show block on specific pages" option:

user/login
user/password

Done!
Drupal it's incredible powerful. I think people complicate things a lot and if you see it in a simple way it will be more efficient... Most of the things you can do it inside Drupal environment.

The template file at http://dannyenglander.com/blog/customizing-user-login-page-drupal-7 saved the day for me. It helped me find the variables that I needed to change.

Made everything you said.
This is my code:

This is the error:
Strict warning: Only variables should be passed by reference in include() (line 88 in file /sites/all/themes/venture_theme/templates/page.tpl.php).

How can I solve it?

I also stuck somehow. I user custom popup to show user/login form and user/register form now i have 2 issues. one validation message how to print in popup.

And is big issue when i user rules or trigger for user redirection on home page after login or register user nothing work on it. i am using drupal 7.3 version. 

even no nay module fork for me on this situation.