Theme development

OK, I'm a little confused at the minute. Could still be lack of sleep but...

I'm working on a custom theme for my site, which I would like to keep private for the same reasons drupal.org keep bluebeach private. I don't want other sites to look like mine.

However, I am learning the Druapl themeing system, so I started from the Pushbutton PHPTemplate variant and have been modifying from there. Pushbutton is under the GPL, so, I believe I am legally bound to release any derivative work to the public also under the GPL. Which I don't want to do.

On my site I use story nodes and page nodes quite differently. The page nodes are used to display static information that is about the site - it's not really content - for example, the about page. On the other hand, I use story nodes for stories - the difference being that a story has attributes that the user needs to see, such as the date it was submitted, who submitted it, etc -- for example http://classfivenews.com/node/25 (note: currently does not display correctly -- its missing information -- see below).

The problem is that I need to display these two different types of nodes differently. For a "page node" I just want to display the content and nothing else. For a "story node" I want to display the submitter, when it was submitted, the taxonomy terms, etc.

The problem is, there doesn't seem to be a way to distinguish between these two types of nodes in node.tpl.php. i.e. what I want is something like this:

<!-- What can I actually put on the line below to get the result I need? -->
<?php if ($node-type == "story"): ?>  
    <?php print $content ?>
<?php else: ?>
  <!-- show the submitter, date, taxonomy terms, etc -->
  <!-- ...ommitted for brevity -->  
<?php endif; ?>

Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?

Hi, everyone,,,

I'm new to this drupal,,,

I'm currently using cameleon theme and I want to get rid of timecounter under each categories,,,,

How can I do that???

Thank you !!

I have had a look in few places, but still not too sure how to go about customising login form (blocks section). I'm creating a template using a xTemplate engine...

Say for example i want my login form to look something like this:

Username: [text box] {Button Login}
Password: [text box] {Button clear}

Is this achevable via templates? i would really hate to do it somewhere else (like modifying the actual module) since this would make any upgrades extremly difficult.

Thanks in advance,
Nick Goloborodko

I have added Obsidian flavour by ScottDot to the Manji theme package.

It makes use of the same XHTML structure, only with different CSS and graphics. See a test page here http://sandbox.ichris.ws/obsidian

If you are already using Manji, you need to overwrite the existing files with ones in the new tarball. There is 2 lines of code added to the XHTML template.

I am trying to implement a fairly complicated graphical header bar that varies by the section you are in. The sections happen to correspond to node types, so at this point if I could just get

print $node->type;

or

print $node_type;

to return something helpful, I'd be off to a great start. Any suggestions?

The forums contain a few discussions of similar topic but none that got me where I was trying to get.