theming

Just trying to see if anyone would be interested in a 2-day evening theming seminar held in Elizabeth, NJ sometime in January of next year. Please let me know ASAP, so I can make the proper arrangements. For those who are not familiar with NJ, Elizabeth is about 10 minutes away from Newark International Airport. Hope to hear from a lot of you soon. Thanks.

There seemed to be a lot of interest in theming at the Drupal group last night. This is a place to post your theming questions as you come across them and see if we can't find some solutions. I'm leaving it wide open!

These questions may be addressed or lead to theming workshop at the next meetups. So keep posting here for the next meetup.

What an awesome event this past Saturday!

For those of you who were there, at the end of the workshop we had discussed conducting some sort of event where people could work together to build out their sites and deal with any problems they might have in a more personal setting.

My colleague Kev Walsh recently helped out at a Drupal Barnraising in Paris, and I'm just wondering out loud about the opportunity for us to do something like this locally.

Hey all-

We mentioned this in our breakout group at the last meetup, and some people sounded interested, so I thought I'd post here...

We (Tree House Agency) are doing a session at Do it with Drupal where a couple of our devs (Sean and Josh) are going to present solutions to theming challenges. Rather than make up our own, we decided to put together a little contest and invite people out in the Drupal community to ask us their questions.

Another great meetup, we had 15 attendees and spent 4 hours talking all things Drupal. This was a 4-hour meetup, covering multiple topics. We had some new faces and covered quite a few topics.

Check out everything we covered after the jump...

I'm working on a project that involves refactoring a content site while upgrading from Drupal 4.x to 5.x. One of the pieces I thought would be somewhat easy—displaying recent posts from blog feeds—has turned into a roadblock.

The desired outcome is to have the latest post from each of several external (i.e., non-Drupal) blogs show up such that the title of the blog links to the blog and the title of the post links to the post.

Let me describe where we started, what we tried, and where we wound up.

Hey everyone!

So I've made some amazing headway thanks to some of the help I received on here from Steve Edwards! If you ever get the chance to work with him you'll be quite lucky as he's very patient, good at explaining things, and pretty well versed in Drupal. Anyways, he's been helping me through most of the issues I've been encountering, but as of lately has become really busy, this is where you all come in!

On a theme registry rebuild, this evil version of the theme registration function peeks in the theme path for a template file with the same name as the theme function (i.e. if somethemefunction is called, it looks for somethemefunction.tpl.php), and forces the template found to register for that theme call, no matter how it was supposed to work originally.

This will provide all the variables that would have been passed to the preprocessor or the theme function directly to the template. This is quite evil, dangerous, and powerful.

Hello everyone,
I am writing a module that requires quite a bit of theming and I want to be able to use a tpl to control the layout of the page callback on a menu item. I have tried using the theme() function like so but I am getting a blank screen in response:

in the menu code: 'page callback' => 'featured_page',

the callback function:

function featured_page () {
$hello = "Hello world";
return theme("main_page", $hello );
}

the theme function:

function bookeditions_theme() {
$path = drupal_get_path('module', 'bookeditions');
$theme['main_page'] = array(

Hi, I wanted to point you guys to a demonstration of color.module I am working on.

http://www.skiquel.com/lab/drupal-6/ - You should be able to get to try it as 'user' and 'admin', and play around with the scheme functionality.