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Some nice Drupal 6 theming links

Dear peeps from the Drupal street,

it's been a while since my last blog, kinda busy with some awesome Drupal projects!

I thought: maybe you'd like some theming resources. Here at Lucius HQ we bundle online resources in a wiki, so we have nice overviews of all that is important.
Here is a part of our theming page:

VERY important: Security

• Writing secure code: http://drupal.org/writing-secure-code

Important documentation of Drupal coding

• Anatomy of Drupal 6 theme http://drupal.org/node/171194
• Drupal 6 theming documentation http://drupal.org/theme-guide/6
• Core tpl-files and vars (cheat sheet) http://drupal.org/node/190815
• HTML en CSS tools en techniques http://drupal.org/node/37156
• Drupal coding documentation: http://drupal.org/node/360052
• Securing your site http://drupal.org/security/secure-configuration
• Use the Theme developer module http://drupal.org/project/devel

Important theming files

• http://drupal.org/node/171205 .Info file
• http://drupal.org/node/171194 Template.php
• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--system--page.tpl.php/6 Page.tpl.php
• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--system--block.tpl.php/6 Block.tpl.php
• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--node--node.tpl.php/6 Node.tpl.php

Optional files and vars

• Core templates (cheat sheet) http://drupal.org/node/190815
• Define your own vars in preprocessing http://drupal.org/node/223430
• Preprocess Vars per node type http://api.drupal.org/api/function/template_preprocess_node/6
• Advanced theme settings, like adding images in theme settings page http://drupal.org/node/177868 module for example: http://drupal.org/project/themesettingsapi

Blocks

• http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_block/6 hook_block to define own blocks in custom modules with custom .tpl files
• http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/block Working with blocks
• http://drupal.org/node/104319 Overriding structure blocks

Menu's

• See http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_links/6
• Use print theme("links", ....) in page.tpl.php
• See also api.drupal.org search for "menu"
• Example: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_menu_tree/6

Drupal core and module core overriding / theming

• Unset CSS files from core or modules http://drupal.org/node/285562
• Remove or replace CSS & Javascript http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/remove-or-replace-jscss-page
• Deafult theme implementations http://api.drupal.org/api/group/themeable/6
• Complete resource for override-able theme output http://drupal.org/node/341628
• Theming core html and module core functions: search for "theme_" in the module directory. Then you'll find the function that can be overridden in template.php
• Check file "theme.inc" for Drupal core overridable output
• Override and Variable overview for core theme components node/page/block/comments/..: http://drupal.org/phptemplate
• Using a theme function instead of the .tpl.php. If you want, for example, search-theme-form.tpl.php to be rendered through a function. Simply declare this function in your template.php:
  function MYTHEME_search_theme_form($form){}

Further online Drupal resources for theming

Custom node on frontpage http://drupal.org/node/190815#comment-2201902

Switching Drupal tpl.php files at will http://www.nicklewis.org/drupal-tutorials/switching-drupal-tplphp-files-...

Very nice theming dev hints http://www.lullabot.com/articles/my-aha-moments-drupal-theming

Deafult theme implementations http://api.drupal.org/api/group/themeable/6

Quick search Drupal.org & api.drupal.org with Firefox search plugin http://www.pixelclever.com/firefox-search-plugins-drupal-org-drupal-api-...

Theming cheatsheet http://www.minezone.org/blog/2009/02/04/drupal-6-theming-cheat-sheet/

Implememt theme settings http://drupal.org/node/177868

Theming layer in modules http://drupal.org/node/165706

Node handeling example code http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_example_view/6

Color module

http://kevinhankens.com/content/creating-colorable-theme
& http://drupal.org/node/108459

IRC http://drupal.org/irc #drupal-themes

Theming forum http://drupal.org/forum/3

Drupal group http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development

Drupal Theming differences between 5 & 6 http://drupal.org/node/132442

Drupal Theme updates http://drupal.org/update/theme

Drupal beyond the basics: http://drupal.org/handbook/customization

Feedback or Questions about theming in Drupal?

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