How to add theme overrides in template.php

Posted by friedman on April 1, 2011 at 12:35am

I recently posted a question over at Drupal Answers - Stack Overflow which I thought might be better addressed here.

I am simply trying to change the "more-link" on a node display. My understanding was that that could be done by
adding an implementation of theme_more_link to template.php. However, that doesn't appear to work. I then noticed the
HOOK_theme implementation with its comment: // @TODO: Needs detailed comments. Patches welcome!

I tried adding a line:
$hooks['more_link'] = array( 'arguments' => array('url' => NULL, 'title' => NULL) );
to this hook. But that also failed. I then had a look at the value of $hooks returned by zen_theme() and it was a null array.

Is zen_theme() used by the zen theme and if so why are no hooks defined?
If anyone has the time, an explanation of how to do this would be helpful.

Thanks,

Note: the latest version of my code is at: http://pastebin.com/K2HztnFQ

Comments

I think you're trying to work

Posted by Garrett Albright on April 16, 2011 at 11:21am

I think you're trying to work a little too hard at this. All you should have to do is to add a THEME_more_link() implementation in your subtheme's (not Zen's) template.php file. So if the system name of your subtheme is "myzen," the function name would be "myzen_more_link()." That should be all you need to do - no need to change anything in Zen's core files.

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