Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/21517 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: theme system Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: stefan nagtegaal Reported by: stefan nagtegaal Updated by: killes@www.drop.org Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/cleaner_themable_help_0.patch (1.99 KB) The patch had DOS line endings and wouldn't apply. I fully support this patch. +1 killes@www.drop.org Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 28, 2005 - 17:21 : stefan nagtegaal The theme system is very inconsistent and not clean. In a steady stream of patches i'll try to make the theme system clean and let most of the theme functions behave the same.. One of the main goals is, that when writing themes in PHPTemplate for example, the way how things are being returned is different from theme function to theme function.. Let's try to unify this, so theming will be more efficient, simpler and more consistent.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 28, 2005 - 17:40 : stefan nagtegaal Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/cleaner_themable_help.patch (1.99 KB) The attached patch does: - remove unused function theme_help() and theme_error(); - added a wrapper function drupal_get_help() inside common.inc (for consistency with drupal_get_title(), drupal_get_breadcrumb(), etc); - reimplemented theme_help(), only this time for a more consistent way for themers; This patch makes it easier to theme the page specific helptexts for drupal. To change your PHP-based themes, you can do: <?php -  if ($help = menu_get_active_help()) { -    $output .= '<small>'. $help .'</small><hr />'; -  } +  $output .= theme('help', drupal_get_help()); ?> To change your PHP-Template based theme: <?php if ($help): ?> <?php print $help; ?> <?php endif; ?> becomes a simple: <?php print $help; ?> If this patch is accepted i'll try to make the functions for returning the local tasks and the status messages behave the same.. Overriding the <div class="help">...</div> could be done through deifinig your own theme_help() function in your theme or template.php file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 28, 2005 - 17:44 : dikini +1 from me it makes help text themeable it uses semantic markup, which is good practice, or as some say the Right Way