need help with theming for Drupal 5.10

Hi Katy,

One way is to add a conditional statement to your page.tpl.php. You can conditionally show an image based on node id or node type for example.

Something like this will check node type -

You can compare against anything that makes sense. I hope I'M making sense.

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 . "\" />";
}

define one block for each header required and set the visibility appropriately. Advantages

• no code needed
• headers can be reused on different pages
• non image elements can be included

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

Thank you Steve,

I would like to make it so that the cient will be able to upload new photos for the headers.

Would this be possible with this new Content Type? I'm new to CCK and Views.

Katy :-)