[support] Basic help getting started

[Metzler, David]

There are some theme installatioin instructions at: 
 
http://drupal.org/node/43767
 
Basically, you need to install "Theme Engines" to support specific
themes.  PHPTemplate is a theme engine used by many themes such as
Box_Grey.  So if you want to use some of the PHPTemplate themes (like
box_grey) then you need to first download and install the PHPTemplate
theme engine.  Then you download and install a particular theme (like
box_grey).  
 
To summarize: 
 
1.  Download and untar/zip the PHPTemplate them and put it in the
themes/engines folder. 
2.  Download the box_grey theme (which happens to use the PHPTemplate
theme engine). Untar/zip the theme and place it in the drupal themes
folder. 
3.  Navigate to Administer themes, and you should see the new box_grey
theme as an option. 
 
THe second question is a bit more complex, and I'd recommend you looking
through the modules list to make sure you find a module that's closest
to doing email the way you want to do it prior to trying to encorperate
it into a menu. 
 
Dave
 
 

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Bruce Whealton
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:02 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Basic help getting started


Hi all,
     While I did get Drupal installed, I am having some startup problems
with my first Drupal sites.  I have more than one, as it appears that
Drupal is a web application that will be useful for a few different
sites.
    One of the first issues deals with themes.  It seems that themes
would be much easier to use and setup then things have been for me.
Unfortunately, the themes I check out at:
http://drupal.org/project/themes/ when downloaded, do not have a readme
or installation instructions file that will tell one what to do.
   Relatedly, the PHPTemplate theme tool said that all one does it
upload the expanded zip (actually it was a tar/gz file) and upload it to
the themes/engine folder.  Am I supposed to look for something after
this is installed?  I had used Fantastico to install Drupal 4.6.4 but
thought that PHPTemplate was installed;  I guess I was wrong.
   At the risk of sounding naive, what does one do to use PHPTemplate?
It said that only one file is needed in the particular theme folder such
as theme/mytheme
I'm missing something, as I'm still not seeing any additional themes
from the default installation.
So, to get started with Themes, and PHPTemplate, I will need to do what?
or start where?
 
The second question deals with menus and Contact forms.  Suppose I want
to add a menu item which will present a form for submitting content to
two different email addresses.  I know that for a menu item, I first
create the new menu and then add that menu as a block.  However, the
path to a contact form to contact some default emails, like editors, is
not presenting itself clearly for me.  I'm not finding it, can someone
help, please,
Thanks,
Bruce


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admin at TriangleWebServcies.com
Street Exposure - Street Newspaper
http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/
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