I am very beginner in drupal.
I want to change the theme every day of week for users.
for example in saturday show theme 'garland', on sunday show theme 'seven' and so on.
how can I implement it.
I have searched a lot but I found nothing especial.
thanks.
sounds like you are looking for the themekey module!?
ThemeKey allows you to define simple or sophisticated theme-switching rules which allow automatic selection of a theme depending on current path, taxonomy terms, language, node-type, and many, many other properties.
The easiest way to change your frontend theme is to set it in your sites/default/settings.php:
if(date("w")==0)
$conf['theme_default'] = 'seven';
else if(date("w")==1)
$conf['theme_default'] = 'garland';
...
You can easily achieve it by implementing hook_custom_theme
You can figure out what active theme key is by calling:
global $theme_key
inside your hook implementation. Of course every theme that you want to use should be enabled.
Related
For a Wordpress organization website, I want all the posts to have by default the same author name (the organization name). How can I achieve this behavior?
There are multiple possibilites.
1) Simplest: You only create one author and share the login within the organization
2) You simply do not display the author on your post - why would you do that? It is probably obvious that your organization is the publisher of these pages anyway.
3) Add the following custom code within your Theme or Plugin:
add_filter('the_author','its_my_company');
function its_my_company() {
return 'Organization Name';
}
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/the_author/
Your best best is to modify your theme or child theme to display a specific user or name wherever the template does so. In your single.php file, look for the_author() or get_the_author(). Then use something like get_user_by() to pull a specific user, or else hard code the value (less ideal, but an option).
Your other option is to manually set it each time, which I could exactly define as making anything "default." Even so, the option exists.
I don't use the Drupal Tabs because they interfere with my CSS but I need the functionality of the Edit tab to be on that screen so that a user can edit the node after reviewing it.
Any ideas on how to do this? Functions? tpl placement? Thanks!
You can do this in a custom module as follows.
In yourcustommodule.module you implement hook_preprocess_node(). In there you check if the user has permissions to edit the node and you set the edit link.
function yourcustommodule_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
if (node_access("update", $vars['node']) === TRUE) {
$vars['edit_link']['#markup'] = l(t('Edit'), 'node/' . $vars['nid'] . '/edit');
}
}
In the node.tpl.php template in the theme you print the edit link if it is available.
<?php if (isset($edit_link)) : ?>
<p><?php print render($edit_link); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
If you do not have a node.tpl.php template in your theme folder than copy the one from modules/node.
If you're using the Views Format "Fields", one of the fields that you can add is "Edit Link." It's pretty flexible; it will tell you what text to display in the link. That's probably the preferred option.
If you're not using the "Fields" format, it gets trickier, especially since you're already interfering with some basic drupal styling. I'd need more information about your View and your skill set to recommend a method that doesn't cause more problems.
As a sidenote: I learned Drupal theming from the outside in, and used to use CSS that would interfere with the underlying drupal mechanics like tabs and contextual links. I've moved away from that; I find very few cases where I need to interfere with native styling-- and for those I can use custom .tpl's to get around.
EDIT: Ah. If you're not using views, a custom page .tpl is probably the best way to go. If you're not familiar, the structure for any node edit link is '/node/<NID>/edit' (for clean URL's) or '/?q=node/<NID>/edit' for old-style URL's. Depending on how your path aliases are set up, '/<url-alias>/edit' may work as well but the previous ones are more reliable.
This link on drupal.org gives a few options.
I think u can write a theme file(.tpl) for u specific case and theme page in whichever way u want
I am working in worpress front page.
I want to add a plugin to the page at a specific location manually but adding the code to the page myself.
I basically want to include a plugin in a certain page on a certain location. So I'm create a div...
<div id="plugin-holder">
**Plugin-will-appear-here-with-this-code**
</div>
Don't anyone know how this is done please?
Thanks
If you're wanting a plugin to appear somewhere, you'll be looking for "shortcode" functionality.
This is actually surprisingly easy to code, check out the examples in the Codex under Shortcode API - ie:
function bartag_func( $atts ) {
// ... do more things here ...
return "text to replace shortcode";
}
add_shortcode( 'bartag', 'bartag_func' );
Once you've called these functions you can use [bartag] in code and it will run your function and replace the shortcode with the generated text your function returns.
If you're adding shortcode functionality to your site, it generally makes most sense to code a really simple plugin and put it in that. The reason why this works best is that, over time, it's really easy to forget and upgrade a theme by mistake (or even change to a new theme) and thus break your site by losing your custom code in your former functions.php. Surprisingly, this is pretty easy to achieve and only requires some specially formatted comments at the top of your plugin file and a little common sense in coding - there are many tutorials and "how to"s around!
Here's a useful shortcode tutorial: http://www.reallyeffective.co.uk/archives/2009/06/22/how-to-code-your-own-wordpress-shortcode-plugin-tutorial-part-1/
You should add the relevant plugin code to functions.php.
I suspect you'll want to use some conditional tags, like is_home() to pinpoint your location. But maybe not, depending on what you are trying to do,
Also, if you're trying to to insert from a pre-existing plug-in, make sure you remove the register_activation_hook or activate_pluginname action.
If your plugin supports a sidebar widget you can simply "widgitize" the div tag that you wish to insert the plugin into.. Google the term and you are gonna find many resources.
I want to write a drupal module which will toggle between 2 themes according to the time of the server.
Please say, which hook should I implement.
Should I use
function hook_init(){
global $custom_theme;
$custom_theme = (<condition> ? 'theme1' : 'theme2');
}
?
Thanks.
Yes that should work in your module. I have tested it in one of my own and it works fine.
When displaying the search form in my header, what is the preferred method to use if it cannot fit into my header region??
should I...
create a custom region?
use some kind of 'print $search_form'
drupal_get_form()??
use the theme() function??
please help! I'm new to Drupal and trying to figure out the best 'Drupal Way' of doing things.
Depends on how you want to define or maintain the search form. If you think of it as part of the theme (that is, it's as static as the page background or colors), consider just using the following in page.tpl.php:
<?php if ($search_box): ?>
<?php print $search_box ?>
<?php endif; ?>
This is de-facto the Drupal Way: if your theme didn't modify the page variables, you get $search_box for free in page.tpl.php. Adding the conditional also lets site maintainers turn it off in the theme settings and specify permissions for it.
If you want to give site maintainers the ability to move it around from region to region, consider using the Search block. This way it can be utilized just as any other block on your site. This would also be considered Drupal Way-ish: you get the block for free if you enable the Search module.
If you want theme the forms, override search-theme-form.tpl.php if you use the first method, and search-box-form.tpl.php if you used the second. Both templates can be found in modules/search.
You could do any of those. You could create a custom region, and use CSS to change the display. You could alter the form with preprocessing hooks or hook_form_alter.
Depends on whatever is easiest for you.