Sorry I miss spoke (or typed).
There is mention in many of the Drupal programming books of theming functions that can be invoked by a module. I don't understand them fully yet, but I believe some of them are standard and others may not be. I believe the idea is to make sure the theming is kept separate from the data, even if some of the theming is data dependent (something that proponents of separation tend discount), a compromise at best.
Warren Vail
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From: themes-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:themes-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of David Landry Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:03 PM To: A list for theme developers Subject: Re: [themes] theme dependencies
Warren,
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "theming modules." The first thing that comes to mind is something like HTML5 Tools http://drupal.org/project/html5_tools . The HTML5 Base http://drupal.org/project/html5_base theme is "designed to go with HTML5 Tools," but HTML5 Tools does its magic before anything reaches the theme layer, leaving no reason for the theme to call any HTML5 Tools functions.
David Landry
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Warren Vail warren@vailtech.net wrote:
David,
Doesn't the opposite exist where modules request specific theming modules? Is there a standard set of theming modules yet, or must you just test to see if the function exists?
Warren Vail
From: themes-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:themes-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of David Landry Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 2:17 PM To: A list for theme developers Subject: Re: [themes] theme dependencies
It's bad practice for themes to have module dependencies like that. There is no centralized standard for tracking modules that a theme depends on. You'll have to go through the entire theme looking for references to modules.
If you want to be kind to the next person who has to maintain the site, you could break out any template code that has module dependency as a custom module or Feature, so that the module dependencies can be declared.
David Landry
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bert Van Kets mailing@vankets.com wrote:
Hi all,
is there any easy way to know what modules a theme is depending on? I have a theme from a Drupal 6 site with a multitude of installed modules. When I use the theme on a plain vanilla Drupal install a blank page is installed. I really do not want to go through all the tpl files to see what modules are referenced. How is a problem like this tackled?
Thanks.
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