Hi
from what youve just sayd, I take it blocks are the best route to go ? Simply populate the blocks in drupal and hook the blocks where needed via the template ?
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1. Re: How much php knowledge required? (JasonN) 2. Re: How much php knowledge required? (Tomasz Kisielewski) 3. Re: How much php knowledge required? (Wahiaronkwas)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:58:29 -0500 From: JasonN imjasonn@gmail.com Subject: Re: [themes] How much php knowledge required? To: A list for theme developers themes@drupal.org Message-ID: 4df456281003161158q3c665b56yf77447079dbc9f6b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Someone needs to do a training course that's pure Drupal design. I'll admit there's little out there about it, in a format that makes sense to non-PHP developers.
The design process is quite simple.
There's a template.
The template has hooks for both code and design elements.
You can position the template hooks in the "blocks" you want them to be manually. But, using the Drupal block management system requires a bit more flexibility and therefor a bit more sophisticated code layout.
If I am blessed to have a few hours to mark this up, I'll share it with you all. Though, I tend to think for most on this list it's remedial.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:07, Jared Stoneberg jared@stonebergdesign.comwrote:
That php/mysql course is overkill. IMO theming Drupal is 75% CSS/HTML 10% PHP and 15% Drupal Configuration. If you only have a little CSS knowledge spend your time there.
-Jared
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:52 AM, saksiri.kridakara@yahoo.com < saksiri.kridakara@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you everyone for these responses!
I have watched the lullabot and lynda.com videos and have a good conceptual understanding at this point...along with a little css and html experience.
I have not dug in and developed a theme yet, but getting prepared. I guess what I'm trying to extract is how php is used in relation to drupal themes.
With so much else to get my head around, I'm hoping I can somehow learn just what's necessary for theme development so I don't have to read a whole additional book.
For example there is a lynda.com php/mysql course but that might be overkill?
Saki
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, JasonN imjasonn@gmail.com wrote:
What is your strength now? That's an important place to start.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 22:55, saksiri.kridakara@yahoo.com saksiri.kridakara@yahoo.com wrote:
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!
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