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Theme developers guide updates on new regioning system

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [nedjo](https://www.drupal.org/user/4481) >>> The following updates to various pages are intended to I've also created two new pages on regioning: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/29140">http://drupal.org/node/29140</a>, Regions in themes, and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/29139">http://drupal.org/node/29139</a>, Regioning in PHPTemplate themes both of which I believe need to be reviewed and approved. =================== Additions to page <a href="http://drupal.org/node/25297">http://drupal.org/node/25297</a>, Home » Developing for Drupal » Theme developer's guide » Updating your themes » Converting 4.6 themes to HEAD =================== <h3>Regions</h3> Drupal theme authors can now define and implement any number of 'regions' for content to be rendered into. This regioning system replaces the previous 'left' and 'right' sidebar regions and should enable much more flexible layout and design, and requires changes to every theme and theme engine. At a minimum, all plain PHP themes must now include a <code>mytheme_regions()</code> function in their .theme file, defining the available regions. If left and right sidebars were already available and no new regions were introduced, a plain PHP theme could be upgraded simply by adding the following function: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php function mytheme_regions() {   return array(        'left' => t('left sidebar'),        'right' => t('right sidebar')   ); } ?></pre></div> Want to do more? Look to the regioning information in the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/11795">plain PHP theme</a> author's guide. To upgrade PHPTemplate-based themes, the minimum change needed is to add a "header" region to the page.tpl.php page (a region below the top of page banner). In bluemarine, the added region looked like this: <pre>  <tr>     <td colspan="2"><div><?php print $header ?></div></td>   </tr></pre>See the page on <a href="http://drupal.org/node/29139">regioning in PHPTemplate themes</a> for tips on how to introduce your own custom regions. Like plain PHP themes, template engines besides the core PHPTemplate one can be minimally upgraded simply by adding a <code>mythemeengine_regions()</code> function defining the already-available left and right regions. But full support for regioning will require more extensive changes. The phptemplate.engine section of the recently-applied <a href="http://drupal.org/files/issues/regions4.patch">regioning patch</a> should be a partial guide for what's needed. =================== Changes to page <a href="http://drupal.org/node/11812">http://drupal.org/node/11812</a>, Home » Developing for Drupal » Theme developer's guide » PHPTemplate theme engine » Page.tpl.php =================== [insert after: [is_front: True if the front page is currently being displayed. Used to toggle the mission.]] header: the HTML for the header region. =================== Changes to page <a href="http://drupal.org/node/11795">http://drupal.org/node/11795</a>, Home » Developing for Drupal » Theme developer's guide » Plain PHP themes =================== [replace [Aside from theme functions, there is one function that you need to include, called mytheme_features().], with:] <h3>Required functions.</h3> Aside from theme functions, there are two functions that you need to include. The first is <code>mytheme_features()</code>. [Insert after "function chameleon_features()" code block:] The second required function is <code>mytheme_regions()</code>, which defines the available regions in the theme. Here's the <code>chameleon.theme</code> <code>_regions()</code> function: [? function chameleon_regions() { return array( 'left' => t('left sidebar'), 'right' => t('right sidebar') ); } ?] For each region you define, you'll want to include a code block including the region's content in the page output. Typically, this might look something like: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php   if ($blocks = theme_blocks('regionname')) {     $output .= '[wrapping content]' . $blocks . '[/wrapping content]';   } ?></pre></div> Note that 'regionname' here is the array key, not it's text description (that is, 'left' and not 'left sidebar'). By 'wrapping content' we just mean any div, td, text, or other elements you might want to enclose your region's content in. So, to introduce additional regions beyond just the standard 'left' and 'right' ones, you simply (a) add your region to the list defined in your <code>_regions()</code> function and (b) render the resulting content to the output as shown. So the coding part's quick and easy, don't hesitate to be creative!

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