Hi
This book is good, video tutorial try lynda.com drupal creating customs themes. Other videos are made by lullabot, but not so well organized. Video tutorial by lynda id for the beginners, well organized a very clear. U don't have to be PHP guru to create theme for customers requirements, like simple one, just understand basic is OK. U have to be familiar with PHP if comes to module development.Have a look at drupal files page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php, block.tpl.php there are variables with some short description to give U idea what going on. Check drupals tutorial on the web and good luck.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Warren Vail <warren@> wrote:
I can recommend a book;

http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-themes/book  turns out a lot of it is not
php (template files and such, but it's probably not like anything else
you've used, so unless you've done themes before, you will have to learn
about what is needed.  Fwiw, it's not rocket science.

Warren Vail

-----Original Message-----
From: saksiri.kridakara@yahoo.com [mailto:saksiri.kridakara@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:55 PM
To: themes@drupal.org
Subject: [themes] How much php knowledge required?

How much php knowledge is required to develop / customize drupal
themes efficiently?

Do I need to read a whole book or is there some basic documentation of
the essential php used for drupal theming?

Any resources would be greatly appreciated!

Saki
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