drupal

For the Arthemia theme I ported to drupal, I ran into a small hurdle - IE6 does not support the css :hover selector and this made the drop downs fail on IE6.

Luckily, I also found a solution: Whatever:hover:

Most modern browsers support the :hover selector for any html element. This is cool, because it enables you to, for instance, apply a mouseover effect to table rows using only CSS. IE however, has an erratic support for :hover at best, depending on the particular version your visitor is using.

Whatever:hover is a small script that automatically patches :hover, :active and :focus for IE6, IE7 and IE8 quirks, letting you use them like you would in any other browser. Version 3 introduces ajax support, meaning that any html that gets inserted into the document via javascript will also trigger :hover, :active and :focus styles in IE.

For the Arthemia theme I was trying to find a nice and simple way to add suckerfish menus. However most solutions involved either magic incantations or jquery plugins. A little too much.

Just as I was about to give up hope, I had a look at the Multiflex-3 theme for drupal and its implementation of suckerfish menus. Finally, something that was simple and easy to follow! No js either, which IMO is a good thing.

The actual code in the template.php file from multiflex-3 that you will need to add/work with is:

<?php
/**
* Return a cascade primary links.
* Clone implementation from user_block().
*
* @return
* a themed cascade primary links.
*/
function phptemplate_primary() {
$output = '';
$output .= menu_tree(variable_get('menu_primary_links_source', 'primary-links'));
$output .= '';
return $output;
}
?>

I have recently been working on porting the Arthemia Free Wordpress theme to Drupal.

I have set up a demo site to demonstrate the theme.

I have made much progress - to the point that the theme works and looks good, but my modifications are not complete yet. I want it to be more than a simple port, but to also fix any other issues with the other theme.

What I have done beyond simple porting:

• Changed the font for the main article content to Verdana/DejaVu Sans
• Added colours to tables,
• Themed the comments separately,
• Added colours to tables,
• Allow a local.css file to be dropped into the folder to override/extend/modify some theming elements.

I think I have got pretty far, and the theme looks very good, however I do think there needs to be some work on the colours used for tables and comments.

Writing about this a little late, but a few days ago I finally tagged the 2.0 release of phpbb2drupal.

The 2.0 release imports from phpbb3.x and the final slog of bugfixing should allow for better clearing of extra tags from phpbb, and also allow for the threading data from phpbb private messages to be preserved.

I appreciated all the help I got in the issue queue too. All in all a good release - especially considering that I do not use the module (last time I needed it was over a year ago, but I have done an import for another person once since too).