Theme development

I'm working a little bit with phpTemplate.

In node.tpl.php, the variable $content is available. In page.tpl.php (which wraps the former, I take it), there is a variable available called "$scripts".

What I'd like to do is add a script to the $scripts array *if* the value of $content contains a certain string.

So is there any way for me to make these relate? Or somewhere I can interact with both of them?

First question, does anyone know how I would display my forum taxonomy, as a block, say in the left sidebar like it appears at time on Drupal.org.

Also, my Forum containers seem to have disappeared, possibly due to the installation of the content_taxonomy module or the category module.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks for any help.

Can anyone tell me how to convert the gunmetal theme to 5.1
Thank you.

Is there any way to have different length excerpts on the main homepage? My website is primarily a blog, so ideally I would like to have about the first 500 characters of the latest post followed by shorter excerpts (200 characters?) of the next 3 latest posts.

Is there any simple way to achieve this? Thanks in advance.

Hello!

First of all i want to say: i like drupal!

But now my question...

I have installed SimpleNews for a newsletter, the form is displayed on the frontpage only not 100% how i want it...my question is..how can i edit this form? I looked in simplenews.module to the theme_ function but coulden't find it...

Hope you guys can help me..

qnallur :D

I'm using

and my summary does break at the point where I insert this tag but my theme doesn't spit out a "Read More" link. What do I need to do to my theme to add "Read More" to a blog posting when someone uses a Break tag?