September 2006 - themes - lists.drupal.org

Lists look different in IE
by Jody Cleveland 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hello, I've got a site here: http://beta.menashalibrary.org/about/history The side menu's are made up of unordered lists. In firefox, opera, it looks exactly how I want it to look. In internet explorer, however, there's about a 15 pixel gap on the left hand side of the list items. I've validated both stylesheets the template uses: http://beta.menashalibrary.org/themes/multiflex/css/style_override.css http://beta.menashalibrary.org/themes/multiflex/css/style_screen.css Any ideas what may be wrong? - jody

4 11

How to troubleshoot themes?
by Jody Cleveland 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hello, I'm having a problem with a theme I'm using, and I'm at a loss as to how to troubleshoot the problem. The problem is, for menus I create, they should be wrapped like this: <ul> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> But, my theme wraps them like this: <li></li> I have absolutely no idea why it would leave out the <ul> tags. So, needless to say, it breaks validation and doesn't honor the stylesheet. Any ideas on how I can troubleshoot this problem? - jody

3 9

What controls the appearance of taxonomy?
by Jody Cleveland 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hello, I'm currently setting up taxonomy for all the pages on my site. My question is, what determines what information is displayed on the page for the taxonomy? If I use bluemarine, I see this: Submitted by cleveland on Tue, 2006-09-19 14:50. About Us On the template I'd like to use (multiflex), I only see this: About Us I know the stylesheet determines how it should look, but how do I change what is displayed? - jody

5 6

shortcut for phptemplate variable printouts
by Farsheed 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi, In order to minimize the php code seen by a themer, I was wondering what people thought of making simple aliases for basic printouts of phptemplate variables. The phptemplate engine would go in and find these aliases and convert them to their actual values. BEFORE: <?php print $content ?> <?php print $sidebar_left ?> AFTER: {$content} {$sidebar_left} Just looking to reduce the amount of potentially intimidating code for new themers. Of course regular PHP should still work. Farsheed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

7 9

Menu problem - sidebar menu items not getting wrapped in<ul>
by Jody Cleveland 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hello, I've got a site here: http://www.wals.lib.wi.us/drupal/ (I'm using a modified version of the multiflex theme) If you look at the menus on the right, the lists are pushed to the left, so the bullets are chopped in half. (looks ok in IE) viewing the source, I noticed that menus I create don't get wrapped in <ul></ul>. Rather, they're stranded <li>'s. Using the standard Bluemarine template, it works fine. So, that leads me to believe it's a problem with my template. From what I can tell, that would be defined in block.tpl.php, right? If it is, does this look ok? <?php // Content region needs different wrapper divs if ($block->region =='content') { ?> <div class="content<?php echo $layoutcode ?>-container line-box"> <div class="content<?php echo $layoutcode ?>-container-1col"> <p class="content1-pagetitle"><?php print $block->subject?></p> <div class="content-txtbox-shade"> <?php print ($block->content) ?> </div> </div> </div> <?php } // Test to see if the main menu is being output. If so, // use a special class to format it properly elseif ($block->module == 'user' and $block->delta == '1') { ?> <p class="sidebar-title-noshade bg-blue07"> <?php print "$block->subject"; ?></p> <div class="sidebar-txtbox-noshade bg-grey03 mainmenu"> <ul> <?php print $block->content; ?> </ul> </div> <?php } else // normal sidebar { $colours = array("grey","grey","grey","grey"); $colour=$colours[$block_id % 4]; // a bit of a fudge, but it will do for now. ?> <p class="sidebar-title-noshade bg-<?php print $colour ?>07"> <?php print "$block->subject"; ?></p> <div class="sidebar-txtbox-noshade bg-<?php print $colour ?>03"> <?php print $block->content; ?> </div> <?php } ; ?> Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. - jody

1 0

Re: [development] PHPTemplate theme & usability
by Khalid B 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

On 9/6/06, Stefan Nagtegaal <Drupal-Devel(a)istyledthis.nl> wrote: > I'm not sure I posted this to the right list, but you guys should > forgive me when I'm on the wrong track.. Ccing this to theme list. > As you (probably) know, I'm designing/coding a new theme. I am using > PHPTemplate for the first time in my life to create a full theme > (please don't ask why). > > Now, on my road to get this darn theme working I noticed that the > following code is used inside coore themes to place the primary/ > secondary navigation: > > <?php if (isset($secondary_links)) { ?><?php print theme > ('links', $secondary_links, array('class' =>'links', 'id' => > 'subnavlist')) ?><?php } ?> > and: > <?php if (isset($primary_links)) { ?><?php print theme > ('links', $primary_links, array('class' =>'links', 'id' => > 'navlist')) ?><?php } ?> > > Now, my question is why do we do this? > > There is a block generated for every new 'menu list' which can be > positioned into every region a theme supports. This is imo very weird.. > > Even weirder is the way before you get the links to display into the > defined place using the method above. > (Goto 'admin/build/menu/settings', set the 'Menu containing (primary| > secondary) links'). I thought we had the blocks generated for that? > > I was totally confused.. it took me 2 hours to spit through > PHPTemplate to find a bug, another hour to fid some settings which > would popup this idea on my mind, and 2 minutes in #drupal to get the > solution.. > > I hope you guys don't mind me saying this, but as someone who has > been using drupal for 4 years now, this does not make any sense to me > at all.. > is this only me? > > Is there anyone who could think of a way on how we can improve this? > Or am I all wrong, and is this usable "as is"? You don't need to use the block to display the primary and secondary links. You can use something as simple as: <ul id="primary"> <?php foreach (array_reverse($primary_links) as $link): ?> <li><?php print $link; ?></li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> Or <div id="secondary"> <?php print is_array($secondary_links) ? theme('links', $secondary_links) : "" ?> </div> Or for a more complex way, see: http://2bits.com/articles/adding-unique-styles-to-primary-and-secondary-lin… More than one way to do things, and I like it this way ...

1 0

Themeswitcher
by Ken Rickard 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

I have finished the first part of the corrections to the themeswitcher module. Results are posted here: http://drupal.org/node/82340 I found the original array handling too complex, so I simplified it greatly. But that really reflects my limits as a programmer rather than the value of the original code. May need to put in a check to ensure that count($themes) > 1, otherwise the theme browser block is useless. Do we still need a themes overview page that shows all available themes and ties them to themeswitcher? - Ken Rickard agentrickard

1 1