[support] Basic help getting started

Tue Jan 10 23:09:51 UTC 2006

Wow, Really?  That should be it.  Done it zillions of times. Just to
confirm: It doen't show up in the "administer/themes" list of themes,
right? 

The one obvious thing to check is permissions:  

Does the anonymous web user that you're running apache on have
permissions on the newly installed engines and theme?  If their not
owned by the www user, make sure the chmod o+rx. 

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From: Bruce Whealton [mailto:brucewhealton at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:50 PM
To: Metzler, David; support at drupal.org
Subject: RE: [support] Basic help getting started

Hi,
   Thanks for the help/support.  I did both of these things.  The
PHPTemplates is installed in the directory as described.  Then I put
box_grey in the directory in the folder themes/box_grey
But other than the default themes that came with the Drupal
installation, I have no other theme options showing up.
Thanks,
Bruce

"Metzler, David" <MetzlerD at evergreen.edu> wrote:

	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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