By sheraz4pro on

hi i am new to drupal, i am creating a theme, i want to create theme header and footer separately and include them in each page. in custom php we just create 1 header and footer.php files and include them with the include() function. now please guide me whether i have to include them as in custom php or is there any other way to do this in drupal.

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Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

I'm not sure if it's the 'correct' way but I'd create a separate theme for your header and footer files, implement hook_preprocess_page in your template.php file and add the header and footer as page vars, something like this:

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  $vars['my_header'] = theme('my_header');
  $vars['my_footer'] = theme('my_footer');
}

Then you can output the variables just like any other in your page.tpl.php file:

print $my_header;
...rest of page...
print $my_footer
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sheraz4pro commented

i have created a header file my_header.tpl.php in themes folder.
then in template file i put following code in the template file 

bluemarin_preprocess_page(&$vars){
      $vars['my_header'] = theme('my_header');
}

now i am using to display it in page.tpl by using this line of code

    print render($page['header']);
    print $my_header;

but its not displaying anything :(

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I'd guess you haven't registered your theme function in hook_theme, documentation is here:

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--hooks--core.php/function/hoo...