Theme and render

display some content using drupal_render() and theme (this is the official way to use theme function)

  1. /**
  2.  * Implements hook_menu().
  3.  */
  4. function mysnippet_menu() {
  5.   $items['mypage'] = array(
  6.     'title' => 'My title',
  7.     'page callback' => 'mysnippet_mypage',
  8.     'access callback' => TRUE,
  9.   );
  10.   return $items;
  11. }
  12.  
  13. /**
  14.  * Menu Callback
  15.  */
  16. function mysnippet_mypage() {
  17.   $title = 'Hello';
  18.   $content = 'Here is my content';
  19.   $render['myitem'] = array(
  20.     '#theme' => 'mysnippet_page',
  21.     '#title' => $title,
  22.     '#content' => $content,
  23.   );
  24.   return drupal_render($render);
  25. }
  26.  
  27. /**
  28.  * Implements hook_theme().
  29.  */
  30. function mysnippet_theme() {
  31.   return array(
  32.     'mysnippet_page' => array(
  33.       'variables' => array('title' => NULL, 'content' => NULL),
  34.     ),
  35.   );
  36. }
  37.  
  38. /**
  39.  * Finally output html
  40.  */
  41. function theme_mysnippet_page($vars) {
  42.   $output = '<div class="my-item-wrapper">';
  43.   $output .= '<span class="title">'.$vars['title'].'</span>';
  44.   $output .= $vars['content'];
  45.   $output .= '</div>';
  46. }
  47. <drupal7>

override a default .tpl.php file in a custom module

to basically use a template file in a custom module use the hook_theme_registry_alter(&$theme_registry) like this

Testing date fields: strtotime tips

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Enable block

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simpletest: count checkboxes checked

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Add a conditional stylesheet for IE

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debug drush (and php-cli)

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Create an image style

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Current path alias

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Unset core stylesheet in a custom theme

by using use hook_css_alter() in template.php

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