need help with theming for Drupal 5.10

Unless the images are updated on a regular basis the solution I've liked the best for this kind of thing is assigning a unique css id for each page and then using css to place the image on the page. I believe, but am not positive, that Raincity's base5 theme and the zen theme both assign unique id's to each page, so you can get code examples from there.

As a quick example, in your tpl.php file you'd have something like:

Using a "make css safe" function you can use the $node->title and make the css id more readable.

A similar technique can be used for sections using either a cck field for designating sections, or examining the path.

I am using a 'Picture on the top of the page' block - mainly because my client wants to be able to set the pictures himself any time - different picture for different page. Following is the code I use:

// pictures - image file name
$pictures[1] = "picture1.jpg";
$pictures[2] = "picture2.jpg";
$pictures[3] = "picture3.jpg";
// ... as many as you want

// pages - relative url or alias in quotes separated by comma
$pages[1] = array("strengthenargument");
$pages[2] = array("node/97","groupwork","node","4-thesis-must-dos","groupdiscounts","notes-on-class-discussions");
$pages[3] = array("about","top-3-tips-for-most-important-skill","media","welcome-clubs","bio");
// ... as many as pictures

$alias = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
$image_base_path = "/files/images/";
$image_file_name = "defaultPicture.jpg";

foreach ($pages as $i => $pagelist) {
if (in_array($alias, $pagelist)) {
$image_file_name = $pictures[$i];
}
}

if($image_file_name) {
print "<img src=\"" . $image_base_path . $image_file_name . "\" />";
}

Hi,

I have another way to deal with such issue. As a programmer, I think this way is a little bit more generic. But I'm not sure whether it is working for Drupal 5 since I touched Drupal from version 6 and never went through the details of Drupal 5's code.

You may create a new content type called 'New Page', for example, and add one field, 'field_header_image', whose possible values are 'home.png', 'about.png', 'services.png', and etc. You may probably make this field invisible from anonymous and normal users. Thus, when you create a new page, you need to set this field. When rendering a page of such type, the variable $node->field_header_image[0]['value'] contains the value of 'field_header_image'.

In the page template file, 'page.tpl.php', you just need to

1. set the header image name at the top
   

   <?php
  if (isset($node->field_header_image[0]['value'])) {
    $_this_header_image = $node->field_header_image[0]['value'];
  }
  else { // make sure the header image set
    $_this_header_image = 'common.png';
  }
?>

2. add the img tag of the header images in a proper position,
   

   <?php
  echo 'img src="some_path/'.$_this_header_image.'" alt="" />';
?>

I have tested this way under Drupal 6 and I guess it will also work with Drupal 5 but the variable name, i.e., '$node->field_header_image[0]['value']', may be different. To get the exact name, you could dump '$node' to find it.

Cheers,
Steve