Comments on: Creating custom regions in Drupal themes

By: Pranav

Pranav — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:32:19 +0000

Hi i need to define my own region.for this i have made a new region below leftsidebar (in admire grunge theme). i want to make a below.tpl.php file but i dont know from where this file is called like other files.so that i can give that region style.
Please help me

By: Muthuraj

Muthuraj — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:57:53 +0000

Hi,

I need to change the default header and footer and middle part of the block to have my own design, so to do that what can i do, i am new to drupal so can you pls explain me in detail, that would be more helpful for me.

Thanks

By: Shiva

Shiva — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:42:29 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for the tips, I managed to add regions to my theme. However, I does not show anything inside it. I do have .
for example I am trying to add menu inside but does not show any thing inside.
I did test with: Is working
but did not work!

would you please give me some advise?

Regards,

By: Kareena

Kareena — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:00:01 +0000

Really nice information you guys have put around here. am really impressed its really help me out to work with drupal 6…

By: Parsiya

Parsiya — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:19:10 +0000

Thanks for the info, pretty useful for me as a Drupal newbie.
I will bookmark this page for when I want to modify my generic downloaded theme further.

By: Nabil

Nabil — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:01:32 +0000

Solution: View my answer at http://drupal.org/node/573444#comment-2029290

By: Nabil

Nabil — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:28:38 +0000

ok why it is not printing my php code?
here is the link to original question…
http://drupal.org/node/573444

By: Nabil

Nabil — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:22:59 +0000

oops forgot to put code snippets…

I am using a different theme than default Garland, Vitzo. So in my page.tpl.php I have :
…

…

…
and my custom region is

If I print this custom region before and after $content or $breadcrumb, it works fine as you have illustrated. Like I get my Crousel block either at top of page or before or after the Content region.

However, In my node-XYZ.tpl.php I am outputting CCK fields individually rather than printing everything in $content.
Instead of

I have a bunch of different CCK-fields (etc1, etc2, etc3, etc4) as follows.
…

etc1; ?>

etc2; ?>

etc3; ?>

etc4; ?>
…

each with individual CSS divs and styling.

I want this custom region to be printed between etc1 and etc2 fields so that it satisfy my website look, you know like a nice intro followed my images then body and so on. I have tried

between etc1 and etc2in my node-XYZ.tpl.php but no luck (and i am assuming it wont because this piece of code should go only in page.tpl.php). Do you have any suggestion how should I take care of this.

p.s. in this carousel region I am trying to print jcarousel_block for images.

By: Nabil

Nabil — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:40:59 +0000

Your tutorial is definitely what I was looking for but the implementation i am looking for is a bit different. I am using a different theme, Vitzo. So in my page.tpl.php I have :
…

…

and my custom region is

If I print this custom region before and after $content or $breadcrumb, it works fine as you have illustrated. Like I get my Crousel block either at top of page or before or after Content.

However, In my node-XYZ.tpl.php file where I want to print this Crousel region, I am not outputting

but a bunch of different CCK-fields as follows.
…

etc1;
?>

etc2;
?>

etc3;
?>

etc4;
?>

…

I want this custom region to be printed between etc1 and etc2 fields. I have tried

between etc1 and etc2in my node-XYZ.tpl.php but no luck. Do you have any suggestion how should I take care of this.

(sorry if i confused you)

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:18:44 +0000

how about collapsible regions?
personally it makes more sense to me to have each(or most) regions to be split up 3 parts. left normal and right
if you do not use one or two of them then they should collapse
i have seen it in Rooplethemes (roopletheme.com) themes

but i have a lot of regions in .info /template.php
so is there a easy way ?