By drupalzack on

If I have to theme just this from page.tpl.php print theme('links', $secondary_links) , what is the right approach? I don't want to hack menu.inc/common.inc as some solutions.

Of course I could break up the creation of secondary_links in page.tpl.php itself, but I want to override the appropriate function. I just don't know what function.

I suppose the file would be template.php. What would the function name be? Or do I have to create a file bluemarine_? Why do we use one over the other? This always confuses me!

Thanks for your help.

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Nick Lewis’s picture

Nick Lewis commented

Its quite common for themable functions to be written differently than they are declared (I wish I understood why...). Fortunately the translation is always easy enough. theme('links', $links) is the equivolent of theme_links($links);

See:http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/theme_links

So, to override the function in your template.php file, I'd recommend:

phptemplate_links($links) {
return _phptemplate_callback('links', array('links' => $links));
}

The variable is now sent to links.tpl.php "which you'll need to create". "$links" is an array, so it should be easy enough to work with

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styro commented

Its quite common for themable functions to be written differently than they are declared (I wish I understood why...). Fortunately the translation is always easy enough. theme('links', $links) is the equivolent of theme_links($links);

As (sort of) explained at http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/theme, all calls to theme_* functions should go through theme().

From my understanding, this is an extra level of indirection/abstraction that translates from generic theme_* function name to the appropriate themename_* function based on the current theme to use. Because PHP4 doesn't allow you to redefine an already existing function name, your theme overrides can't use the same name as the existing default ones.

I hope that makes some sort of sense :)

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drupalzack commented

Thank you! Really appreciated.

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Nick Lewis commented

Um... that makes a truckload of sense. Thanks!

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