Firenzie Running in Drupal!
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- Daniel Safee
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Hey guys!
For a personal project of mine I decided to give drupal a shot to see what advantages (if any) it had over joomla. Of course no site would be complete without a rocket theme template so naturally i had to modify it.
It was a 3 day process converting the template over but its finally finished.
take a look
www.godlyguitartabs.com
some of the hardest things to work around were the menus (completely different!) and also the administrator control panel is displayed within the site template. This required even more modifications as the admin menus also somehow had to be worked into the theme.
Let me know what you think.
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- Andy Miller
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Daniel, that looks great! Would it be possible to provide me a temporary admin pw so I could see how you did that? Or if not that, could I get a copy of your template to see how you did it all? PM me if its easier
cheers.
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- Daniel Safee
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Thanks andy,
The template files are a tad bloated but here's the link for them. Some things (like url paths to css files) can and should be dynamically created but were entered in manually for simplicity during development. Also I based this off of the free drupal theme "bluemarine" which comes as a default install and there are some things in the template that are specific to this theme but do not display.
the template.php file is pretty simple. Its only two jobs are to create the various regions inside the template and the second portion of code is to fix a little menu bug that was annoying me.
the page.tpl.php file is the main template file. Its identical to the firenzie template file except all the J:doc includes are replaced by <?php print $region_name ?> where region_name is one of the regions we defined in template.php
Next when you log into the back end you can create blocks and tell the blocks to display in a particular region.
The menus were just a lot of trial and error.
The other .tpl.php files are for specifically styling how blocks and other things like comments display (mine are very simple i just only display the content and no titles or headings since i put those inside the block content for simplicity sake.) Blocks are a lot like modules in joomla in that you can put your own code in them and have that display.
www.godlyguitartabs.com/drupal_firenzie.zip
The admin backend i did not spend much time on. I only changed it enough to make it usable so its not that pretty. I can give you an admin PW if you want but its like inviting a friend in only to have a dirty house
- Last Edit: 17 years 5 days ago by Daniel Safee.
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- Dan L
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- Wow, nice work. And thanks for sharing the template; will be most interesting to see how it's done.
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- Sam Taylor
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Great job! I have a few clients that would love to get into the open source CMS but only with Drupal. I hope we see RT hit this area.
Thanks again for the template.
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- Tobias Heyn
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- That is really great! MMhhh, maybe I shoud try this with HiveMind. Would love to have such a template for Drupal!
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- Daniel Safee
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foteck wrote:
Best looking Firenzie Ive seen.
Wow thanks for the complement. I've actually updated the theme now to run with drupal 6.0 release candidate as well as move it to a new server (VPS).
I still have some custom PHP work to make some of the modules a little more robust. I love the flexibility of the drupal API and the ability to put PHP directly in pages and modules.
Is it better than joomla? I don't see it that way. I think they both specialize in different types of websites. I run 2 joomla sites that wouldn't work with drupal and there are examples of the opposite situation like the site listed here.
Anyway, thanks for the kind words.
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- Projekt.Daniel.Nitsche
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Hey Daniel,
at the moment I´m testing drupal6 because a client just want drupal. I was looking for the drupalversion you made of the template, but the link didn´t work any longer. Could you please make a update.
Thank You
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