By ncordell on

I've searched the forums and googles, but can't seem to find the drupal 7 equivalent of the drupal 6 user-login.tpl.php. I tried user--login.tpl.php to no avail. How do I theme the login page?

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julia_g’s picture

julia_g commented

Have you found this out? I've had user-login.tpl.php in Drupal 6, and it's still working in Drupal 7, but the form itself is not showing up.

prat0318’s picture

prat0318 commented

I tried many drupal 6 tutorials for custom login ... but drupal_render($form) gives a blank page everytime. Please help.

aangel’s picture

aangel commented

Drupal won't find those files if you don't register them in a hook_theme() function:

/*
 *  Implements hook_theme().
 */
function HOOK_theme() {
  return array(
    'user_register_form' => array(
      'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
      'template' => 'user-register',  // exclude the tpl.php
    ),
    'user_login' => array(
      'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
      'template' => 'user-login',  
    ),
    'user_pass' => array(
      'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
      'template' => 'user-password',  
    ),
  );
}

For more on this function see the API documentation.

To theme the pages, I had to use a total hack because I couldn't get D7 to see my template suggestions. This is NOT the way to do it but until I have more time to sleuth this in D7 it will have to do the job. I put it at the very top of page.tpl.php.

switch ($_GET['q']) {
case 'forum':
  include 'page--forum.tpl.php'; return;
  break;
  
case 'user/login':
  include 'page--user-login.tpl.php'; return;
  break;

case 'user/register':
  include 'page--user-register.tpl.php'; return;
  break;  

case 'user/password':
  include 'page--user-password.tpl.php'; return;
  break;  
}
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medenfield commented

Here is the way I usually go with:

Step 1, register user-login.tpl.php in template.php like so (where hook is the name of your theme):

function hook_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path){
  return array(
    'user_login' => array(
      'render element' => 'form',
      'template' => 'user-login', 
    ),
  );
}

Next, create a preprocess function that will let you modify the available variables from the output of the user module. This goes in your template.php file anywhere below the above function:

function hook_preprocess_user_login(&$variables) {

}

Now, create your user-login.tpl.php page in your theme folder. Simply put the following code at the top:

print '<pre>';
print_r($variables);
print '</pre>';

Clear your cache. On your next visit to /user/login you should see the array dumped out.

julia_g’s picture

julia_g commented

medenfield - I've done this and variables look good. Now I try to actually render the form in user-login.tpl.php:
print drupal_render($variables['form']);
and this gives me white screen and "out of memory" error. Is there anything I'm missing here?

ludo.r’s picture

ludo.r
Location Brussels
commented

I have the same issue WSOD when rendering form.

Any solution?

Connoropolous’s picture

Connoropolous commented

This is for future comers benefit. You can find the proper procedure start to finish for drupal 7 here at this drupal node: http://drupal.org/node/350634

The key thing I think was this:

<?php print drupal_render_children($form) ?>

Gil_Gamesh’s picture

Gil_Gamesh commented

Thank you!!!

choitz’s picture

choitz commented

Fairly straight forward solution:
http://www.victheme.com/blog/drupal-7-creating-horizontal-login-bar-with...

Both functions go into template.php while print login_bar (); works in page.tpl.php.

Hopefully will stop you having to try various more complex methods.