[themes] php and learning to theme

[Michelle Cox]

Personally, I wouldn't put that sort of thing in the theme. There are 
modules available to access control and you and do a lot of showing 
different things in different sections right through the interface.

Michelle


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brendan carney" <info at fresh-off.com>
To: "A list for theme developers" <themes at drupal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [themes] php and learning to theme


> thanks Laura!
> thats exactly the type of feed back i was looking for.  i was assuming 
> that the conditional arguments would be of particular importance in 
> directing which users see what, depending on where in the site they are. 
> and i've already started poking around different themes trying to get some 
> clues as to the way different people have approached things.
>
> so, thanks again for your response!
> ---------------
>
>
> Laura Scott wrote:
>> As someone who learned (and is still very much learning) PHP to work with 
>> Drupal, my recommendation is to focus on first things first: Basic 
>> syntax. Basic commands. The various conditionals arguments, especially. 
>> (if, elseif, case, switch)
>>
>> You can gain a lot of understanding, potentially, by going through some 
>> of the existing contributed themes and see how they approached different 
>> things. That's a start.
>>
>> Then maybe going into the theme snippets and php snippets in the handbook 
>> would be next. Refer to your textbooks for background and deeper 
>> understanding. (There are many online resources and books out there. I've 
>> used the O'Reilly and Visual Quickpro Guide books, both titled "PHP and 
>> MySQL".)
>>
>> I hope this helps. My philosophy is it's best to learn by doing, whenever 
>> possible.
>>
>> Laura
>>
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>> On Jul 14, 2006, at 12:40 PM, brendan carney wrote:
>>
>>> hello! my first post in this list..
>>> what areas of PHP should i get familiar with (first) in order to really 
>>> customize themes?
>>>
>>> a little background:  i've been poking around drupal for a while, and am 
>>> starting to get a feel for it.  i consider my knowledge of modern 
>>> table-less xhtml/css practices to be somewhere between intermediate and 
>>> advanced.  my knowledge of PHP (and programing in general) is very 
>>> limited.  i've made it through a few tutorials, and parts of a rather 
>>> poorly written php book.  in short, i know enough about php to be 
>>> willing to experiment, but it's still a little scary. (but only a 
>>> little) =)
>>>
>>> i love xhtml/css, falling hard for drupal, and am excited to start 
>>> learning PHP.  as i'm a graphic designer, being able really customize 
>>> themes is of extreme interest, and an area of the community i'd like to 
>>> be able to contribute to in the near future.
>>>
>>> i'm planing to start going through online php tutorials more regularly 
>>> in order to become more familiar with php in general, and specifically 
>>> so that i can customize and develop drupal themes to my heart's content.
>>> so again, what areas in php should i particularly focus on with regards 
>>> to themeing?
>>>
>>> thanks!
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