Drupal for Developers

Want to create a front page that's styled differently from the rest of your site? Perhaps you need a separate admin theme? Or how about a login page which only shows the login block and nothing else? With a little PHP knowledge these problems are easy t

Functions to enable output of HTML forms and form elements. Drupal uses these functions to achieve consistency in its form presentation, while at the same time simplifying code and reducing the amount of HTML that must be explicitly generated by modules.

With the introduction of the Forms API (FAPI) in Drupal 4.7, module authors got a new, shiny, but above all, powerful tool to generate and validate advanced forms. For some it's such a big leap from Drupal 4.6 that they still feel a bit lost.

Here's a little trick that will allow you to use a different block.tpl.php for a specific block. You can control by Block name or Block ID. Here' a modified block.tpl.php with a conditional at the top. All you need to do is edit the module == '[modulename

The node rendering solution Published July 31, 2006 - 1:22am Tags: drupal | geekery | patches Jeff's blog