Theme development

I'm not too strong in PHP, so I'm sure this is just a coding error on my part. I'm trying to have my forum nodes mimick the module nodes in layout and design. I've already done a bit of tweaking on the comment module and I'd like it to apply to forum nodes as well.

In my node.tpl.php I attempted to include an "if/then" statement, but I can't seem to get the syntax right.

I have something like this:

getting this msg: warning: Missing argument 3 for theme_menu_local_task() in /home/jwilde/public_html/ideascape/includes/menu.inc on line 696. each time I open a page with tabs on the node, eg, access control with the three tabs - permissions, roles, access rules. Any ideas? www.advancinginsights.com

Thanks Jim

I'm having CSS issues with Internet Explorer and using CSS to set the textarea to 95%. It looks pretty without text, but as soon as you type it expands beyond its set area.

I've tested this with the drupal site, and ofcourse it works great. I just wondered what trick you used, or what pit I've falled into.

In Protecting content from non-logged in users when using phptemplate overrides there is talk about how to customize the template.php so that anonymous users cannot see private information on the site, since overiding via phptemplate goes around permissions.

I'd like to extend this to allow more customization in two ways

1. display different page layouts for anonymous and logged in users (eg- display left and right columns only for logged in users).
2. create different page layouts depending on what is on the page (eg- blog)

To approach task #1 i've tried this in my template.php:

/**
* check if the user is logged in before invoking the template override
*/
global $user;
if($user->uid) { // check to see if the user is logged in
	function phptemplate_page($content, $title = NULL, $breadcrumb = NULL) {
  	return _phptemplate_callback('page', $vars);
	}
}

elseif (!  $user->uid) {
	function phptemplate_page($content, $title = NULL, $breadcrumb = NULL) {
 	 return _phptemplate_callback('page_anon', $vars);
	}
}

This, in theory, would call page_anon.tpl.php for anonymous users and page.tpl.php for registered users. But I get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare phptemplate_page() (previously declared in *edit*/themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine:143) in *edit*/themes/my_theme/template.php on line 15

The line # is actually corresponding to the first mention of phptemplate_page, i've edited out the parts that you can see by following the link above.

So am I to assume that it's not possible to customize the call to page.tpl.php? Or am I missing something else?

I think the problem will also help solve task #2.

I apologize for the double post. I shoudl have posted this problem in this forum, but it appears to be too late.

I am having a problem with template.php and theming modules. PLease read about my problem here:

http://drupal.org/node/18276

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Mateo