Can't seem to theme the events module output

Hello,

"Learning Drupal 6 Module Development" by Matt Butcher contains a section about "template.php Gotchas" on page 88 in chapter 3 about The Theme System.

This gives some hints how to overcome problems when trying to theme your content with sub-themes, as you can only override a theme function once (i.e. not in the sub-theme if the same function is already declared in the parent theme).

And if you use a function in phptemplate_hook then this will override the theme function in hook.tpl.php.

You should not use phptemplate_hook but one of the preprocessor functions such as phptemplate_preprocess_block etc.

Hope that will help you.

Kind regards
Frank

Hm, could you perhaps post a code snippet to illustrate the problem?

Thanks for the link. I will have a look at it and give it a try myself.

The following code does work with my installation of Drupal 6.4 (in template.php file in your theme folder):

function zen_event_upcoming_item($node) { 
  // Initialize the content 
  $output = "TEST: "; 
   // Put in the event title with link and some more HTML - just for testing
  $output .= "<em>" . l($node->title, "node/$node->nid", array('title' => $node->title)) . "</em>"; 
  // Return the output back to Drupal for display 
  return $output; 
} 

Have you remembered clearing your cache?

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i would like to theme it as well....what exactly are u trying to do???

is it possible to add cck fields in the events calendar views??

As my theme is a sub-theme of Zen this might be a Garland specific bug. You might have a look at the following post:

"Garland overrides template with theme function"
http://drupal.org/node/295895

PS:
Oops, it's not the cache, it's the theme registry which has to be cleared (http://drupal.org/node/173880).

when u clear cache it clears that too :D

I am marking this fixed, Frank gave a lot of input wrt to theming.