[documentation] Theme developers guide overhaul

Kieran Lal kieran at civicspacelabs.org
Wed May 24 01:38:19 UTC 2006


On May 23, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Heine Deelstra wrote:

> Dear fellow Drupaleers,
>
> In my opinion, the theme docs could use some love and attention.  
> Perhaps a reorganization or even a rewrite.
> A stronger focus on learning themeing (how do theme functions  
> work); not too difficult, not too dummy *and* a complete reference  
> would be a boon.
>
> I'm envisioning something like the Forms API quickstart guide  
> coupled with the Forms API reference.
>
> - A proper introduction to theme functions
> - A list of form_ids and corresponding form would be great for  
> themers. The list of form_ids is a simple grep -rn drupal_get_form *.
> - A list of themeable functions, with arguments and a short  
> description.
> - Assorted goodies for phptemplate, smarty etc
>
> As you can see I haven't thought it through yet. This is were you  
> come in. Any ideas?
> I'm also looking for people willing to work on this. It's fairly  
> large, and I'm not sure whether I can do it all by myself.

Get an outline and we can start helping to fill it out.

Kieran
>
> Regards,
>
> Heine Deelstra
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