Make phptemplate the default engine to simplify .info file [#801632]

Since phptemplate is what most themes use these days, I think it would make sense to make it the default, so we don't have to specify it in .info files. We could make it so pure PHP themes, which are the exception, need to specify engine = none or something similar.

If this is too late for 7.x, I understand. Just wanted to throw this out there in case it's not.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	drupal.theme-engine-default.2.patch	5.87 KB	jacine
#1	drupal.theme-engine-default.1.patch	1.01 KB	sun

Comments

Comment #1

sun

German

Karlsruhe

commented 6 November 2010 at 19:00

Category:	feature	» task
Status:	Active	» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	drupal.theme-engine-default.1.patch	1.01 KB

I seriously was under the impression that this is Drupal 4.7 stuff and no longer possible.

Everyone uses some engine. Almost everyone uses PHPTemplate, a minority uses Smarty. But Chameleon is most probably the only existing theme that uses no engine.

Comment #2

jacine

she/her

New York

commented 6 November 2010 at 20:13

Status	File	Size
new	drupal.theme-engine-default.2.patch	5.87 KB

Sweet! The awesome thing about this is that it doesn't affect existing themes (in contrib). They all already have phptemplate = engine specified, and making it a default doesn't affect that at all. It's great because now you only need 2 lines in a .info file to create a theme: name and core version.

Yay for simplicity and for not exposing unnecessary complicatedness to themers for something that is done 99.9% of the time! :D

Here's an updated patch that removes the entry from themes.