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drupal tutorials Welcome to my Drupal Tutorial listing. I have tried to make the tutorials as easy to find as possible by categorizing them by skill level and by the three major areas of Drupal development: Drupal Administration, Drupal Theming, and Drupal Module Development. If you are not able to find the information you are looking for feel free to post a Drupal question and I will do my best to answer it. (Note: you must login or register with this site in order to post content.)

How to theme the search form for Drupal 6

Submitted by Aaron Hawkins on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 17:58

Drupal is made to be customized; however some parts of Drupal theming don’t have much documentation written about them. Theming the search form is a good example. I don’t know if someone has added a tutorial in the last couple of months, but when I made the switch from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 I couldn’t find a tutorial anywhere that explained how to do it, and the function that I had used for Drupal 5 was no longer working. So I tinkered with it a little, and after a bit of trial and error I came up with a method that works.

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How to theme specific blocks in Drupal

Submitted by Aaron Hawkins on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 19:33

Drupal blocks can be themed on several levels. You can create a custom html layout for all the blocks on your site, you can create a different layout for a specific region on your site, you can customize the blocks according to the module that created the blocks, or you can even theme an individual block with its own unique html and corresponding CSS styles.

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How to insert a block into a tpl or into content programmatically with Drupal

Submitted by Aaron Hawkins on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 20:06

There are several ways to insert blocks onto a page with Drupal. You can use panels, you can add a region to the theme, or you can call the blocks programmatically with php. Though it might not seem evident at first there are some situations where it really is much easier, or better just to call a block with php rather than using the other options. One good example is where you want to add a particular block to a page that shows up in an odd location (such as the top right hand corner of the page) where panels can’t get to.

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How to programmatically insert a view into a tpl or content in Drupal 6

Submitted by Aaron Hawkins on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 20:14

In Drupal 6 views has been completely rewritten from the ground up, and as such we have to adjust the little code snippets that we developers have collected over the years to compensate.

The old way ( Drupal 5 views 1 ) of inserting a view into a tpl or into a php enabled content area was as follows:

<?php
$view_name = 'text_listing'; //name of view
$view_args = array($oldstring) ;
$view = views_get_view($view_name);
print views_build_view('embed', $view, $view_args, $view->use_pager, $view->nodes_per_page);
?>

This has now changed to the following:

<?php
  $view_args = array();
  $display_id = 'page_1';
  $view = views_get_view('logo_slideshow');
       if (!empty($view)) {
        print $view->execute_display($display_id , $view_args);
  }
?>

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