Theme development

Hello there! I need to customize the output for comments and blocks in my site. I'm using phptemplate, but I don't know which variables are available to print the dynamic content, like $title, $body, etc. Somebody could tell me where can I find some example templates for this sections, comment.tpl.php and block.tpl.php?

Otherwise, how can I show all local variables that exists in the execution environment of the script (if posible), so I can see where is this content.

Hi,

I recently installed the WebCounter module for displaying the counter statistics on my website. It is working well. Althought the more option does not work yet. It is a great feature.

However most of the available THEMES are not working OK anymore. There are some which are still OK, but most of them displays the three colums layout not right anymore. Sometimes the right colum is displayed over the left colum and sometimes the right colum is displayed directly after the leftcolum. No middle section than anymore.

It's most likely that this topic has been discussed before but I couldn't find any good threads, forgive me if I cross-post.

But I have this important question I hope you can answer for me. How does Drupal's template-system really work? I thought the hole meaning of a template-system was to separate business logic from presentation? In drupal you will find some in the templates directories and some in the modules, right?

I'm using xtemplate with three columns. The left and right column automaticall stretch to the proper page length, but the center column only stretches as far as the content pushes it. I can set the lenght/height of the column to get it to stretch to a decent length more in line with the side columns and in IE it will stretch further if the content forces it, but not in Mozilla. In Mozilla it stops at the designated length/height and just cuts out the remaining content.

I am new to Drupal and am trying to use it to build a community site which I might have built from scratch, but I'm trying Drupal instead because I have a ridiculous deadline. The design for the home page calls for a layout nothing like the default, and I don't know how to change it. I've gathered that in my theme if I make a modulename_page() function, I can control the layout of a specific page, but can't figure out how to do that for the home.

It seems no matter what I do the list tags in block-list won't drop the bullet. For normal css I'd just set a ul class to remove it, but this doesn't seem to work within the style.css of this theme.

What would the correct method to do this be?