Theme development

OK, so I have this completely hacked mangled thing that I call a theme, and it's surprisingly pleasing to me given my complete lack of understanding of CSS. I am definitely adding "working knowledge of CSS" to the list of tasks once I go off active duty, but in the meantime, I have a really annoying visual element I can't figure out how to fix.

Hither is an example: http://www.sobrania.net/user/register

Hello all.

I am attempting to re-do how the theme_bookreview_list function is displaying my books. In template.php I have the following function to override the theme_bookreview_list function:

function phptemplate_bookreview_list() {
  $header = array(' ', array('data' => t('Title'), 'field' => 'n.title', 'sort' => 'asc'), array('data' => t('Author'), 'field' => 'b.author'));

  $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT n.nid, n.title, b.author from {node} n INNER JOIN {bookreview_authors} b on n.nid = b.nid WHERE n.type = 'bookreview'";
  $sql .= tablesort_sql($header);
  $result = pager_query($sql, 20);

  while ($node = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$output = '<table width="100%"><tr><td>';

    if ($node->title) {$output .= '<h2>'. l($node->title, "node/$node->nid"). ' - ';}
    else {$output .= '<h2>No Title';}

$output .= '</td><td align="right">';
    if ($node->author) {$output .= t($node->author). '</h2>';}
    else {$output .= 'Unknown Author </h2>';}

$output .= '</td></tr></table>';
    $rows[] = array(array('data' => $output, 'colspan' => '5'));
  }

  if (!$rows) {
    $rows[] = array(array('data' => t('No books available.'), 'colspan' => '4'));
  }

  $pager = theme('pager', NULL, 20, 0);
  if (!empty($pager)) {
    $rows[] = array(array('data' => $pager, 'colspan' => '2'));
  }

  return theme('table', $header, $rows);
}
?>

If you've tried to apply a special style to node or comment previews in your theme, you've probably found that the information just isn't there to let you do it. This is unfortunate, because the similarity between a preview and a normal page view makes it easy to lose data when you forget to save after previewing.

Dear forum,

I apologize for the poor title of this post. Let me try to explain what I want to do. At the moment on my site I have a masthead image that is a white neon light through a green background. Say I made copies of that masthead image and turned each copy into a different color so there was a green one, a red one, a blue one etc. Then would It be possible to have the images change every 5 to 10 seconds or so? What would it take to do that?

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks alot

FrancisQ

Hi,

I'm running a quite large non-profit website that currently are converting to Drupal from another CMS. We have no understanding of Drupal-theming and need a new theme developed rather quickly. We have a couple of themes we like (FriendsElectric, Kubrick, SpreadFireFox) and we're looking to do some modifications of these themes to fit our need - or develop a new theme from scratch with these themes as a sample.

My node.tpl.php file is extremely over-crowded (making exceptions for different node types). I'd like to clean it up by creating seperate template files for each node type (as mentioned in the new PhpTemplate engine functionality).

Adrian mentioned that he was going to backport this a few days ago, but I have heard nothing yet. Is it done? Can I download the CVS version and will it work on 4.5.2?

Thanks a million for the awesome engine!

Mateo