inheritance

Facebook Login and Drupal

I have the FB mod installed and it is working fine. But I would like to move it further down the login page. right now, it sits between the user/pass and the login button. i think that this is confusing.

so i am using firebug to track down where this placement is occurring. this is a great exercise for me and when i accomplish it i’ll post how i did it.

this is that I have so far. the login block comes from the core user module. specifically, the user.module file. look for the user_login_block function.

then the fbconnect.module file appends it code to the user_login_block function. I can change the weight of the output and move the login stuff above the regular login, but not below it completely, which is where i would rather have it. i have a post on drupal. i’ll update again tomorrow.

well, after i finished up some PHP stuff, i decided to have another go at the weight of that element. I didn’t think it would work. but, when i made it a negative number, it rose to the top. I had made it a 10 but it stayed in the same place. so, i made it 100. still the same. i thought, what the hell, and i made it 1000. and it went right where i wanted it to go. i don’t know what to say. i’m a little annoyed with myself over that. but i learned a few things about drupal architecture and inheritance. and i think that if you know those thing really well in drupal, you’ll be in a good position to do real customization work.

Subtheming, CSS and template files

I’m finally at a point that i’ve wanted to be at for a long time. and, as usual for me, as soon as I ask for help with something, i figure it out.

on my sand/prod sites, i configured a “title” in a block. i then kind forgot that i had the title in the block and looked at its appearance as the result of the site information. then, using the tools that i described i changed the css. and, although i expected only the one element to be changed, i found that all the block titles were changed. but, that’s by design and is just the result of my ignorance of the way Drupal works. But now I know better. I am going to post what i did in a new post. i think it might really be beneficial.

Core CSS Files and Drupal Inheritance

So I am exploring subtheming. and because i am a bit OCD, i have to understand the whole underlying thing. so i have been looking at the core files; not to hack but to see what the overrides and intercepts are actually affecting. Here are the core CSS files in Drupal 7

..drupal…mod…sys…

system.admin.css

system.base.css

system.maintenance.css

system.messages.css

system.theme.css

then, if you enable the stark theme, you will see a little bit more styling. stark contains:

stark.info

layout.css

if you remove the reference to the css file for stark in the .info file you will see what the default css styling looks like. this helped me to see, literally, the consequence of the styling in layout.css. and since i am a monkey, i need to see it… and because i am an idiot.