Sunday, February 17 2008

As part of my deal with dmitrig01 to get him to cover Drupal 6.0's actions and triggers support, I am going to do a lesson covering the advances in Drupal 6.0's handling of theme templates (those tpl.php files we all know and love).

In short, Drupal 6 brings a lot of the best practices that developed around template files in 5.0, and puts support for them into Drupal Core, as well as implementing a new standard in the core modules that contrib/custom developers can aspire to and emulate. The new omnipresence of template files radically simplifies the process of overriding the output of theme_functions, as well as making things more hospitable to designers.

My objectives for this lesson are to create a good introductory screencast to this concept, and then talk about some advanced functions/use-cases.