Comments on: Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 7: Installing Modules and Themes

By: Costas

Costas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:06:35 +0000

I just started a new drupal website (my first experience with Drupal) and after about 5 hours (installation included) I am now at the end of part 7 of your excellent tutorial.
You have done an amazing job, I am in my 70s and all works fine to this point. Congratulations and all the very best to you.

Costas

By: mary

mary — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:17:46 +0000

Andrew
What tags are you referring to? The “< ?php" should be there with no space between the < and ?, similarly to the "? >” again with no space between them, I just added the spaces so they would render correctly in the comments and not be processed as code by wordpress. Basically the < ?php opens the block of code and the ? > closes the block. Anything between those tags gets processed as PHP code.

Is this what you meant by tagging?

mary

By: AndrewBW

AndrewBW — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:55:16 +0000

Worked like a charm Mary. Thanks. I thought I tried that setup but if I did I must have been off slightly somewhere. Just one question I’m curious about. The .php file has tags around the < ?php print t('By ') tagging but they're omitted from your tagging above. However putting them in or leaving them out doesn't seem to make any actual difference. Are they there for some other reason?

By: mary

mary — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:04:54 +0000

Andrew Sorry for the delay. OK, I looked into the Marinelli node.tpl.php. If you want the author and date information to appear in both the teaser and full view, here's what you need to do. In the node.tpl.php you have a block of code that looks like this:

< div class="metanode">
'. theme('username', $node).'< / span>' . t(' - Posted on ') . '< span class="date">'.format_date($node->created, 'custom', "d F Y").'< / span>'; ?>
< / div>

OK, right under that block of code, paste this:

< ?php if ($teaser): ?> < div class="metanode">
'. theme('username', $node).'< / span>' . t(' - Posted on ') . '< span class="date">'.format_date($node->created, 'custom', "d F Y").'< / span>'; ?>
< / div>

PS: Remove the extra spaces that I added in the code tags, I put them there so the code would read correctly in Wordpress. This should now work. What the first block basically does is say that if what we're seeing is the full view and not the teaser (hence the ! before $teaser, post the author and date info). The second block of code says that if what we're seeing is the teaser view (notice there's no ! before $teaser), then show the author and date. Because we're applying this to the overall node.tpl.php it will apply to Marinelli plus all it sub-themes. Hope this helps :) mary

By: AndrewBW

AndrewBW — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:27:00 +0000

Hi Mary. I’m using Alagna, a sub-theme of Marinelli. The URL is http://www.cuyahogafx.com. Thanks.

By: mary

mary — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:46:39 +0000

Andrew,
The first place I would look would definitely be the node.tpl.php file as the posts recommend. What theme are you using? I may be able to make a better suggestion based on your theme.

mary

By: AndrewBW

AndrewBW — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:25:38 +0000

Hi Mary. Here’s a Drupal/PHP question for you. In my setup, the author and post time don’t show under the teaser, but do show under the full view of a story. Postings at http://drupal.org/node/266730 and http://drupal.org/node/577454 point to the node.tpl.php file. I’ve tried several variations of the suggestions in these posts but they haven’t quite worked, unless I made some error along the way. One way, for example, displays the author and date twice under the teaser; another displays it under the teaser but not under the full view; and another wipes out the formatting of the page completely. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks! Keep up the great work! (Except do more of it!)

By: mary

mary — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:14:28 +0000

thanks for sharing that info Howard

mary