PHP

Three tips for comment theming in Drupal

Nik — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:09:30 -0400

Today I’m just demonstrating a few simple theme adjustments to comments. Comments in Drupal 5 are “not sexy”, out of the box, so in this short post I’m going to illustrate how to:

change the text on “submitted” lines in comments (just a little)
add nofollow to username links – unless you’re feeling generous

remove the “not verified” marker from anonymous users

Creating custom error pages in Drupal

Nik — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:28:43 -0500

Currently there are three options for creating error pages in the Drupal system, that I know of. I’m going to show here which I think is the best, for reasons of usability, performance and general webmaster sanity. At the foot of this article, there’s some free code too!

The options:

Drupal’s built-in support for error pages (@ /admin/settings/error-reporting)
Search404.module (404’s only, of course)

Customerror.module (404 & 403)

Drupal’s build in error page support

Adding website section images in Drupal themes

Nik — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:06:26 -0500

Quite frequently I’ve been asked about putting images into site “sections”, depending on path or menu trail. Look up, that “Blog” image is what I’m talking about. It’s on all blog related pages. So, here goes – it’s nice to be able to finally offer this information here.

The first main chunk of code attempts to get a menu item and build an image link from that. The second chunk assumes failure of the first and tries again using a partial path method.

Where do I create PHPTemplate variables in Drupal theming?

Nik — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:54:31 -0500

Here’s some code, which you can put into your template.php file. It demonstrates how to insert code into that file, so you can make new variables available to page, node and comment template files. Examples of where this is useful are shown in the snippet below.

uid > 0) ? TRUE : FALSE; break; case 'node':