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Overriding themable output

  • Overriding themable output
  • Beginners guide to overriding themable output
  • Introduction to PHP for theming
  • About overriding themable output
  • Setting up variables for use in a template (preprocess and process functions)
  • Default baseline variables
  • Customizing and Overriding User Login page, Register, and Password Reset in Drupal 6 and 7
  • How to add a "?destination=URL" to the request new password link
  • Useful tutorials & links
  • Example: Themable output
  • Identifying Core Components
  • Core Block CSS IDs
  • Mission statement and highlighted region
  • Primary and Secondary links renamed to Main and Secondary menu
  • Taxonomy
  • Unrendered taxonomy links no longer available as a separate variable in node.tpl.php files
  • Menu theming
  • Overriding a menu in a block or template file
  • The theme registry for special cases
  • Working with template suggestions
  • Architectural view of theming

Identifying Core Components

Last updated on
31 August 2016

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A list of Drupal core components and how to override them.

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