Theme development

I have had a look in few places, but still not too sure how to go about customising login form (blocks section). I'm creating a template using a xTemplate engine...

Say for example i want my login form to look something like this:

Username: [text box] {Button Login}
Password: [text box] {Button clear}

Is this achevable via templates? i would really hate to do it somewhere else (like modifying the actual module) since this would make any upgrades extremly difficult.

Thanks in advance,
Nick Goloborodko

I have added Obsidian flavour by ScottDot to the Manji theme package.

It makes use of the same XHTML structure, only with different CSS and graphics. See a test page here http://sandbox.ichris.ws/obsidian

If you are already using Manji, you need to overwrite the existing files with ones in the new tarball. There is 2 lines of code added to the XHTML template.

I am trying to implement a fairly complicated graphical header bar that varies by the section you are in. The sections happen to correspond to node types, so at this point if I could just get

print $node->type;

or

print $node_type;

to return something helpful, I'd be off to a great start. Any suggestions?

The forums contain a few discussions of similar topic but none that got me where I was trying to get.

Well, it prohibited my posting because of suspicious data, so I just give the link,

http://vitamin.uni.cc/node/23

So I am trying to get some customize aggregator content on my site, howver I am having some problems theming the module. The aggregator module has a theme_aggregator_page_item hook, which allows me to create an aggregator_page_item.tpl.php file in my theme folder. I am using PHPTemplate by the way. I activate this theme file by modifying my template.php file. Everything works fine, except for the fact that now each time the theme_aggregator_page_item function is called in the aggregator.module, I get a new date. So my page looks like:

Date1
News Item
Date1
News Item
Date1
News Item
Date2
News Item

Instead of :
Date1
News Item
News Item
News Item
Date 2
News Item

I know why this is hapening. It is because in my aggregator_page_item.tpl.php file there is a bit of code that isn't working. Here is the file:

  static $last;

  $date = date('Ymd', $item->timestamp);
  if ($date != $last) {
    $last = $date;
    $output .= '<h3>'. date('F j, Y', $item->timestamp) ."</h3>\n";
  }

  $output .= "<div class=\"news-item\">\n";
  $output .= ' <div class="date">'. date('H:i', $item->timestamp) ."</div>\n";
  $output .= " <div class=\"body\">\n";
  $output .= "  <div class=\"title\"><a href=\"$item->link\">$item->title</a></div>\n";
  if ($item->description) {
    $output .= "  <div class=\"description\">$item->description</div>\n";
  }
  if ($item->ftitle && $item->fid) {
    $output .= '  <div class="source">'. t('Source') .': '. l($item->ftitle, "aggregator/sources/$item->fid") ."</div>\n";
  }

  $result = db_query('SELECT c.title, c.cid FROM {aggregator_category_item} ci LEFT JOIN {aggregator_category} c ON ci.cid = c.cid WHERE ci.iid = %d ORDER BY c.title', $item->iid);
  $categories = array();
  while ($category = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $categories[] = l($category->title, 'aggregator/categories/'. $category->cid);
  }
  if ($categories) {
    $output .= '  <div class="categories">'. t('Categories') .': '. implode(', ', $categories) ."</div>\n";
  }

  $output .= " </div>\n";
  $output .= "</div>\n";

  echo $output;

The problem is that the $last variable doesn't seem to get passed through the themeing functions of the aggregator module. Is there anyway to fix this WITHOUT hacking the aggregator module?

If I must I guess I will make changes in the aggregator module, but I would rather just work in the theme fucntions.

thanks

I am trying figure out how the tabs were done. It's absolutely beautiful and I have ton of questions.

For example, here:

ul.primary li {
display: block;
float: left;
_width: 1px;
height: 20px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
position: relative;
top: 2px; /* fudgyness to make tabs stay put on text resizing */
_top: 6px;

What does "fudgyness" mean?

And what does the _ right before width: 1px; do?