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Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting
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Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting

by Emma Jane Hogbin, Konstantin Käfer
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
10h 37m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 4. The Drupal Page

Get out your crayons and your coloring book! In this chapter you will learn how to connect the dots and build context-sensitive page templates. The adventures in this chapter begin by dissecting how Drupal builds the pages that are delivered to your Web browser. You will then learn about sitewide variables so you can split your page templates into a clean HTML framework with Drupal-served data being injected into the right spots at the right times. Next, you will learn to draw “outside the lines” with custom page variables and page templates based on categories, page aliases, and content types. And for those who don’t like to color at all, the chapter wraps up with information on creating print-friendly templates and ...

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