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Posted by jfha73 on September 8, 2010 at 2:03am

Hello guys,

I don't know if this is the right forum to post this, but here it is:

How do I declare regions for a theme?

I just bought a theme from a third party and I want to add a couple of regions to it and I don't know how to do it.

Can anyone help?

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Posted by nevets on September 8, 2010 at 2:16am

See http://drupal.org/node/171205

Thanks, I did include the

Posted by jfha73 on September 8, 2010 at 3:56pm

Thanks,

I did include the name of the new regions I want to the info file, but how do I tell page.tpl.php where they go?

Thanks in advance.

In the .info file you have

Posted by nevets on September 8, 2010 at 4:08pm

In the .info file you have lines of the form

regions[some_name] = Some Label

some_name will be in available in page.tpl.php as $some_name (so 'some_name' needs to be a valid PHP variable name). In general it is added to page.tpl.php something like

<?php if ( !empty($some_name) ) : ?>
<div id="some-name">
<?php print $some_name; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

That helped a lot, thank you

Posted by jfha73 on September 9, 2010 at 11:21pm

That helped a lot, thank you very much