New block area - Content - how to put a block at the TOP?

In the theme's page.tpl.php file find and move or paste print $header; into the section above print $content;

Then in admin/block make sure the banner block or any block you choose or create is enabled and the placement is in header.

I haven't quite figured it out myself yet :)

It seems that the 'content' region is a little ambiguous. Maybe 'before content' and 'after content' might be better region names?

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I'd like to be able to create new block areas that can be managed from the administration panel (admin/block) just as 'Left sidebar' and 'Right sidebar' are.

As it is not yet implemented it should be arranged manually first. I guess we (maybe) had to modify some values in the DB (1), redefine/create some template functions (I make use of PHPTemplate) (2) and then define the areas within the template itself + style it in the CSS file (3).

(1) goes for it to appear in the admin block section
(2) for the selected blocks to be read and processed by the template engine
(3) for the block contents (whatever) to be set and style in the right place within the webpage

Do you know how to do it?

I'm assuming for your post that you're doing something similar on Drupal 4.7. I'm developing a site on last stable Drupal 4.6.

Thanx in advance,
hip

I know that 4.7 has more block areas, but one of my sites is already using them all, and would like more. I was under the impression that adding new block areas was a feature of 4.7. Does anyone know?

I would like to be able to do this with out using php snippets. Most header areas were not intended to be thick from top to bottom, hence there name header. Most headers are a few inches high via eyeball measurement ha. this is for design reasons. therefore it would really be nice to be able to add a block to the header area and have the weights that you assign go from left to right instead of from top to bottom. This should be a design feature of Drupal or perhaps the garland them I am using. What you have to do now is custom code or html or css, I think by design if you would like to include lets say three different blocks into the header area they should be weighted from left to right instead of them being stacked on top of each other. Does this make any since or am I just off my rocker here. Well I'm always off my rocker so that is irrelevant I guess. Just my thoughts on design the way I see it should be. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have control via weight for top to bottom though perhaps instead of weight maybe use an X Y coordinate approach or something giving you more placement control of blocks.

here is the solution to add 'new template regions' for your site... Found this on the net, slightly modified it but can't give credit to the author as I didn't keep track of their name or url

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add this snippet to template.php replacing themeName with your site's theme name and newRegion with what you'd like to call the new region - Don't forget to give it a memorable name as this name will be used when the regions are presented to admins, simply replace new region name with your new region's memorable name.

function themeName_regions()
{
return array(
"left"=>t("left sidebar"),
"right"=>t("right sidebar"),
"content"=>t("content area"),
"header"=>t("site header"),
"footer"=>t("site footer"),
"newRegion"=>t("new region name")
);

}

now open page.tpl.php

put in the following where you would like your new region to appear

print $newRegion;

obviously replacing newRegion with whatever you called the newRegion in template.php

Hope someone finds this useful.