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Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

You're reading from   Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook Over 100 clear step-by-step recipes to create powerful, great-looking Drupal themes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198686
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Drupal Theme Basics 2. Beyond the Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Custom Themes and Zen 4. Templating Basics 5. Development and Debugging Tools 6. Advanced Templating 7. JavaScript in Themes 8. Navigation 9. Form Design 10. Customizing CCK 11. Views Theming 12. Rapid Layouts with Panels Index

Introduction


One of the more prevalent adages with respect to Drupal development and theming is:

Do not hack core!

Modules, themes, and other files which come with a stock Drupal installation should never be edited directly. In other words, we really should not need to modify anything outside the sites folder which is designed to contain all our changes and customizations. The reasoning behind this is that most, if not all, aspects of core are accessible and modifiable through a clean and non-invasive process using Drupal's APIs. Therefore, hacking core modules and themes to get things done is almost always unnecessary and ill-advised.

Another reason why directly editing core modules and themes, or for that matter, even contributed modules and themes, is that whenever an upgrade of Drupal or said modules and themes takes place, we will very likely be overwriting the changes we have made, or at the very least, make the upgrade a trying exercise.

With respect to themes, let us take the example...

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