How to make a new Drupal theme.

How to make a new drupal theme:

Make a copy of core theme e.g. Garland, copy Garland direcotry and rename to it mytheme or as you wish. e.g. mytheme.

Now we have /sites/all/mytheme/ with all the templates files.
On this directory are important files, and that is the important part to make a new theme.

Drupal theme files:

.../sites/all/mytheme/

screenshot.png
logo.png
mytheme.info
/css
/images
/color
page.tpl.php
node.tpl.php
template.php
maintenance-page.tpl.php
comment.tpl.php
theme-settings.php

1.screenshot.png:
The screenshot should show the entire page and be about ~960x720 (4:3 ratio) resized to exactly 294x219 (~30% of the original size). Try to show many useful page elements (menu, tabs, title, links). Don't include browser chrome (toolbar, status bar, scrollbar, etc). A screenshot used for display purposes in the admin panel.

2.logo.png:
Your logo, if you are using one.

3.mytheme.info:
A required file that is new to Drupal 6 which provides information about the theme.

4.page.tpl.php
!!!page.tpl.php is the only file which is absolutely required. It overrides the theme('page') function, which outputs the final page contents, along with all the extra decorations like a header, tabs, breadcrumbs, sidebars and a footer.
This template defines the main skeleton for the page.
The main template that defines the content on most of the page.

5.node.tpl.php
This file defines the content of the nodes.
This template controls the display of a node, and a node summary. It can only affect the output of the $content variable.

6.template.php
Any PHP functions in your theme should use the Drupal API and follow best practices for writing secure code. Note that functions should be placed in template.php or a module and not in *.tpl.php.
7.maitenance-page.tpl.php

8.comment.tpl.php
Defines the content of the comments.

9.theme-settings.php
Any PHP functions in your theme should use the Drupal API and follow best practices for writing secure code. Note that functions should be placed in template.php or a module and not in *.tpl.php.

10.html.tpl.php
Default theme implementation to display a single Drupal page.

style.css — The CSS file that sets the CSS rules for the template.
block.tpl.php — Defines the content of the blocks.
box.tpl.php — puts a box around things like comments. See also http://drupal.org/node/11814.
style-rtl.css — this file is new to Drupal 6's Bluemarine. I think it's a CSS for right to left languages and can be ignored if you're using a left-to-right language like English.

#You can create files to override the following functions:
theme('page') (page.tpl.php): theme a page
theme('block') (block.tpl.php): theme a block in sidebar
theme('box') (box.tpl.php): theme a generic container for the main area
theme('comment') (comment.tpl.php): theme a comment
theme('node') (node.tpl.php): theme a node

Useful links for druapl theme information

https://drupal.org/node/341707
https://drupal.org/documentation/theme
https://drupal.org/node/173880

Quotes - Frases

“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” - zig ziglar

“BUT WHO PRAYS FOR SATAN? WHO, IN EIGHTEEN CENTURIES, HAS HAD THE COMMON HUMANITY TO PRAY FOR THE ONE SINNER THAT NEEDED IT MOST?” MARK TWAIN

http://blog.logos.com/2013/05/10-more-warren-wiersbe-quotes/ - Warren Wiersbe - Religion!!!

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Linux LAMP - Virtual Hosts Configuration

<sub>Hello Linuxers this article may be helpful to set-up virtual hosts on a Linux Box.

The purpose of Virtual-hosts is to use different domains or multiple websites being served/hosted from one single web-server e.g. Apache2 and also organize them by directory, this can be done via name-based or IP-based virtual hosts.

In this case I use name-based website on a single ip address.
For example we need one directory on the document root for all files don't mix up in the same folder, so that each host has its own directory to avoid confusion.

Our goal is to make a new host called site1.com - we wish to put all files at /var/www/site1/ and access it via http://www.site1.com or http://site1.com
We know the Document Root is in /var/www/ that is explicit defined in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default
Here are the commands to make a virtual-host just repeat to create new ones.</sub>

Virtual-host set-up configuration

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/site1/public_html
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/site1/public_html
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/
sudo nano /var/www/site1/public_html/index.html

1.Inside index.html put this small text, use echo or edit file with nano:

<html>
<head>
<title>www.site1.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Success: You Have Set Up a Virtual Host</h1>
</body>
</html>

2.Now we create and add the real virtual-host and directory information entry to Apache2 configuration:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/site1

3.inside the file write:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
        ServerName site1.com
        ServerAlias www.site1.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/site1/public_html
        <Directory /var/www/site1/public_html>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_site1
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_site1 combined
        ServerSignature Off
</VirtualHost>

4.now we enable this site using a2ensite utility and reload Apache configuration:

sudo a2ensite site1
sudo service apache2 reload

5.To review we created the directory for the website, we gave permissions to the directory, we created a simple index.html, and created virtual-host configuration file and enabled it with a2ensite.
6.To finish we also need some ip-hostname entry to /etc/hosts to recognize this domain, I call it domain aliased to ip-address because we set *:80 in the config file.
On the sites-available/site1 file as you see are important directives like ServerName, ServerAlias and DocumentRoot which give unique identity to the virtual-host.

nano /etc/hosts

7.Edit the file and add an entry at the last line of the file:

127.0.0.1 site1.com www.site1.com

Useful configuration files location:

_{/etc/hosts - hosts file to define hostname ips and aliases
/etc/php5/ - php5 configuration file is php.ini
/etc/phpmyadmin/ - phpmyadmin directory
/etc/apache2/ - apache2.conf configuration file
/etc/mysql - my.cnf mysql configuration file}

Helpers to enable or disable virtual-hosts, modules

#They are activated by symlinking available configuration files from their
# respective *-available/ counterparts. These should be managed by using our
# helpers a2enmod/a2dismod, a2ensite/a2dissite. See
# their respective man pages for detailed information.

# enable site

sudo a2ensite

# disable site

sudo a2dissite

# enable an apache2 module

sudo a2enmod

# e.g. a2enmod php4 will create the correct symlinks in mods-enabled to allow the module to be used. In this example it will link both php4.conf and php4.load for the user
# disable an apache2 module

sudo a2dismod

# force reload the server configuration

sudo service apache2 reload

# useful links for virtual-host information
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-apache-config.html

Linux LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

  Install Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

Testing Apache

http://localhost/

Install PHP

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Step: Eventually you need to:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Test PHP

Step: Let's test if PHP is working correctly.

sudo nano /var/www/index.php

or...

sudo echo “<?php phpinfo(); ?>” > /var/www/index.php

Step 3. Save and close the file.

Step 4. Now open you're web browser and type the following into the web address:

http://localhost/index.php

(It will show you the page that has all information about your php. If you have prior experience of installing php in some other OS, you must have seen this page.)

Congrats you have now installed both Apache and PHP!

Install MySQL

To finish this guide up we will install MySQL.

Step 1. Once again open up the amazing Terminal and then copy/paste or type this line:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Step 2 (optional). In order for other computers on your network to view the server you have created, you must first edit the "Bind Address". Begin by opening up Terminal to edit the  my.cnf  file.

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Change the line

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

And change the  127.0.0.1  to your IP address.

(In Linux Mint 11, terminal itself asked to the set password, But if it doesn't follow the step 3.)

Step 3. This is where things may start to get tricky. Begin by typing the following into Terminal:

mysql -u root

Following that copy/paste or type this line:

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('yourpassword');

(Make sure to change yourpassword to a password of your choice.)

Step 4. We are now going to install a program called phpMyAdmin which is an easy tool to edit your databases. Copy/paste or type the following line into Terminal:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin

After that is installed our next task is to get PHP to work with MySQL. To do this we will need to open a file entitled  php.ini. To open it type the following:

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Now we are going to have to uncomment the following line by taking out the semicolon ";"
Change this line:

;extension=mysql.so

To look like this:

extension=mysql.so

Now just restart Apache and you are all set! 

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

PhpMyAdmin Configuration

If you get a 404 error upon visiting http://localhost/phpmyadmin: You will need to configure apache2.conf to work with Phpmyadmin.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Include the following line at the bottom of the file, save and quit.

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Installing LAMP on Linux Mint

1. Install Apache2 on Linux Mint using apt-get.

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

2. Install PHP and the various modules enabling Apache to work with PHP using apt-get.

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

3. Install MySQL Server and set root MySQL user password with the following command, it will automatically prompt you for the password during installation.

4. Create a quick php test script that uses the phpinfo() function to test your server with. After running this command simply open up Firefox or Chrome and go to http://127.0.0.1/index.php or http://localhost/index.php.

sudo echo “<?php phpinfo(); ?>” > /var/www/index.php

5. Reload Apache2 Configuration

service apache2 reload

Poesia 2014 - Fernando Pessoa

Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
Por te cruzarmos, quantas mães choraram,
Quantos filhos em vão rezaram!
Quantas noivas ficaram por casar
Para que fosses nosso, ó mar!

Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena
Se a alma não é pequena.
Quem quer passar além do Bojador
Tem que passar além da dor.
Deus ao mar o perigo e o abismo deu,
Mas nele é que espelhou o céu.

_{Fernando Pessoa Pessoa, F. Mensagem. Poema X Mar Português. Edições Ática: Lisboa. 1959.}