forms

The following exercise consists in theming the contact form in Drupal 6. Once we're done, it will look like we'll have created two fall-back-on 'pages' for contact forms, one page/form to 'request a quote' at Randy.com/contact/quote, and an other page/form for general inquiries at Randy.com/contact/info. The trick here — if there's one — consists in theming the contact form differently based on the requested URI.

This exercise will show you how to:

• recognize when a module has not registered a specific theming function for a form it generates,
• register a theming function for a Drupal form in your theme, using HOOK_theme,
• work with template suggestions,
• use the Devel module function dsm() to inspect complex variables, such as Drupal forms.

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The following exercise consists in moving pieces of code around, code that I did not write myself. Credit for the code goes to Joakim Stai (nicknamed 'ximo' on Drupal.org), the maintainer of the excellent Node form layouts module, as well as to the Usability group.

This exercise is all about gaining experience in:

• adding theme settings to a theme configuration page
• theming forms inside a theme, as opposed to writing a module for the same purpose
• creating a sub theme

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