By sammy-node on

Hi - I've tried amending the template.php file to add a region as follows;
(This is from a 5 tempalte which I upgraded to Drupal 6 smiply by adding the new .info file to my template file - apart from this issue it seems to work great)

 /* $Id: template.php,v 1.1 2006/06/28 18:31:05 rkerr Exp $ */

function base_theme_regions() {         **********this line is where I have written my theme name ******
  return array(
       'header' => t('header'),
        'busy' => t('busy'),           ******this is the region I added******
       'left' => t('left sidebar'),
       'right' => t('right sidebar'),
       'content' => t('content'),
       'footer' => t('footer'),
  ); 
}

This works in 5 great, but the new region isn't selectable in the block admin page

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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ugerhard’s picture

ugerhard commented

In Drupal 6, regions are defined in the .info file of your theme and not anymore via the regions hook. See http://drupal.org/node/171205 for more information, especially http://drupal.org/node/171205#regions

netmastan’s picture

netmastan commented

Thanks. I followed the tutorial.I've added regions[homepage]=homepage then it didn't show up. I cleared cache and it shows but shows only homepage. No matter what i do, i cant' get back original region. I get the following error 


    * The block Technology category latest items was assigned to the invalid region left and has been disabled.
    * The block Recent blog posts was assigned to the invalid region right and has been disabled.
    * The block Powered by Drupal was assigned to the invalid region footer and has been disabled.
    * The block User login was assigned to the invalid region left and has been disabled.
    * The block Navigation was assigned to the invalid region left and has been disabled.
johnbarneson’s picture

johnbarneson commented

Once you create even a single custom region then you have to define the formerly default regions in the theme's .info file. I just ran across this same problem.
I just added the default regions back into the .info file:

regions[left] = Left sidebar
regions[right] = Right sidebar
regions[content] = Content
regions[header] = Header
regions[footer] = Footer

Once I did this everything popped back into place.

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joshcanhelp commented

This was a problem I've been having for a while... thanks (3 years later)!

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CompShack commented

I will have to keep this in mind when upgrading as I have 2 custom regions in 5.7 - Will update this post with any issues :)

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pradeepbagga’s picture

pradeepbagga commented

how can we create a new region in drupal 6.0
please tell me in which file I will have write this code & after this what will to do

seaneffel’s picture

seaneffel commented

Find your theme's .info file and create new regions there. If your theme is called "Awesome" then you are likely to find this .info file in the theme folder in your sites/all/themes/awesome/awesome.info.

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CompShack commented

I figured this one out a while back - here is the link http://drupal.org/node/237391

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