[support] Basic help getting started

Wed Jan 11 16:12:21 UTC 2006

PHPTemplate to be uploaded here theme/engine/PHPTemplate 

This is the correct way.... and yes that, plus the permissions issue are
most likely the culprits. 

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Bruce Whealton
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:52 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Cc: MeltzlerD at evergreen.edu
Subject: RE: [support] Basic help getting started

I know this shouldn't be happening.  Here are some thoughts.  One is
that the PHPTemplate was installed wrong.  I added another theme also
that uses PHPTemplate and that might be setup wrong.  It was civicspace
and I wasn''t sure if it should go in the themes/engine/civicspace
folder or in the themes/civicspace  So, with it appearing in two
different places at once could that cause a problem?  

Again, the themes that use PHPTemplate are the ones not showing up in
the administer/themes page.
Is PHPTemplate to be uploaded here theme/engine/PHPTemplate or should
the content of PHPTemplate be put into theme/engine?

Why would it be that when I login as admin, the new theme that I set as
default is not being used?  The anonymous user sees a theme that I would
like to have logged in users seeing also.  I set it as default but it
seems that it isn't being used when I log in.  Why would this be?

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

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

	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. < /DIV> 

		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 s ome
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 so unding 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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