Meetup and Presentation

OK, so we are overdue for another meetup. To make up for this, we have two great community presentations lined up. Two people have so far volunteered to present so that this week we'll have Nesta's talk on how to do theme overrides in Drupal and next week Yannick (axle_foley00) has offered to present on multisites.

So this week Nesta will lead us through theme overrides with "Overriding HTML output in Drupal" (extremely useful stuff). Here's an outline of the talk:

Aim: Should be able to:
1. Locate overridable output
2. Override HTML using
* Functions - template.php
* Template files - *.tpl.php
3. Understanding rendering hierarchy

Intro:
* Structure of a Drupal theme
* Info files?
* template.php
* Theme registrty

Body:
* Finding themeable output
- theme functions (theme_)
- preprocess functions (template_preprocess_)
- theme file (.tpl.php)
- or just use the devel module's theme developer functionality
* Overriding theme or template preprocess function
* Overriding a theme file
* Converting from functions to templates
- getting the correct file name
- variables
* Forms?
* CSS Only themes?

Examples.
Tips.
Summary.

So overall the Agenda for the event is as follows:

1.    First 15 min to half hour: introductions
     * Who are you?
     * What brings you here?
     * What do you do?
     * How do you use Drupal?
     * What are your websites, what companies do you work for?
     * Generally catching up.
   

2.    Presentation: "Overriding HTML output in Drupal"
     * Use cases and examples
     * Q and A on the presentation
   

3.    Group discussion
     * Anyone want to show off their multisite install?
     * Any projects or problems people have found and need help on?
     * Working on any interesting projects?
     * Want to share best practices when building Drupal sites?
   

So I hope to see you all on Saturday at UWI. 2pm sharp I will post further details of the venue later this week.