By starting with the bare bones of Drupal theming to completing a custom theme, you will understand the concepts of overriding, intercepting and altering markup in Drupal. You will do a step-by-step walk through creating a new theme based on a well tested theme development framework using development best practices. You will go in more depth to coding a custom theme, using pre-process functions and theme functions to get fine-grained control. Then learn how to ensure your themes are secure, and stable. Learn how to control the output of CCK and Views.

Fee includes lunch and materials. Please bring your own laptop, if not able to one will be provided for you (please notify us in advance to reserve on).

Learning Goals

• Understand the anatomy of the Drupal theming system
• Know how to create a theme for your website
• Know where to alter the look of Views output
• Be able to locate and override markup produced by Drupal through theme functions
• Be able to change contents of variables in templates
• Be familiar with secure and safe best practices for accessing and displaying data

Course Format

The course is a two day course with a mixture of lecture, demonstrations, exercises and workshop time.

Prerequisites

Site building experience with Drupal or completion of Drupal in a Day and Site builder training. Experience with HTML and CSS and some understanding or experience with PHP is preferred.

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