[themes] Theme Settings (was: Custom Configuration Options . . .)

[John Wilkins]

On 3/5/07, Johan Forngren wrote:
>
> http://drupal.org/node/54990

That implementation looks to have stalled. But it has some  
interesting ideas. I took a slightly different tack and looked at how  
ANY theme can add settings no matter what theme engine is in use. It  
turns out there is an existing API already in core, but PHP Template  
doesn't expose it to it's themes.

So I've create the Theme Settings API module so we can hammer out all  
the bugs and get a real implementation.  Hopefully, everything will  
work smoothly and we can then introduce an issue to fold some of the  
module code into Drupal 6.x.

If you want to contribute or integrate this module with your theme,  
take a look:

http://drupal.org/project/themesettings

It is well documented (I believe) and relatively easy to implement,  
but please submit any issues/bugs you encounter.

  - John

John Wilkins
Albin.Net  :  friendly web development
480.598.3338  :  http://www.albin.net


> On 3/5/07, Konstantin Käfer <kkaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I tried adding a hook_form_alter function to template.php, but  
> that
> > > was
> > > unsuccessful. In fact, the only thing that was successful was to
> > > create a
> > > module and do it there. I would really like to avoid having a  
> theme
> > > depend on
> > > a module.
> >
> > This would indeed be a *very* useful addition. I have often felt the
> > urge to provide configuration options for themes I have written and
> > always ended up writing an own module for it. +1 from me.
> >
> > Konstantin Käfer – http://kkaefer.com/