Drupal 5 Themes

Create a new theme for your Drupal website with a clean layout and powerful CSS styling

Key Features

• Learn to create new Drupal 5 Themes
• No experience of Drupal 5 theming required
• Set up and configure themes
• Understand Drupal 5's themeable functions

Book Description

What you will learn

• This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource even to experienced theme developers. It covers:
• Creating custom templates
• Basics of theming in pure PHP
• Modifying an existing PHPTemplate theme?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù a step-by-step guide
• Creating a new PHPTemplate theme?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa step-by-step guide
• Working with forms
• The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity! Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 5 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.

Who this book is for

This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource even to experienced theme developers. It covers: Creating custom templates Basics of theming in pure PHP Modifying an existing PHPTemplate theme' a step-by-step guide Creating a new PHPTemplate theme' a step-by-step guide Working with forms The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity! Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 5 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.