On Wednesday 28 October 2009 5:35:35 am Michel Morelli wrote:
> Hi all. I have a template file called "foo.tpl.php", and I have $vars.
>
> How can i theme "foo.tpl.php" with $vars ?
>
> I have thinked that I need to use "theme" function(), but how ?
>
> And for a box ?
>
> M.
You're actually putting the cart before the horse, it looks like.
Somewhere in code, you'll need to format some data. OK, you want to use a
template. So you first add a hook_theme[1] entry to define your theme key
(foo), and you specify that it uses a template file (foo.tpl.php by default).
Then you call:
$output = theme('foo', $somevar, $anothervar, $somethingelse);
in your module code where you want to turn $somevar, $anothervar, and
$somethingelse into rendered HTML.
With the theme hook setup correctly, that will result in foo.tpl.php getting
called with $somevar, $anothervar, and $somethingelse, along with various
other globally added variables. You can also use a template_preprocess_foo()
function of your own to filter and mutate $somevar, $anothervar, and
$somethingelse as needed or add more variables at that point. see the theming
guide[2] for more information.
You should start thinking from the point in code where you need to have
something rendered, not from the template and then finding a place to put it.
It will conceptually make more sense that way when you implement it.
[1]
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_theme/6[2]
http://drupal.org/theme-guide/6--
Larry Garfield
larry@...
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