Awesomeness redefined: Drupal 7 Theming

Last time the king of denmark was here in stockholm 40 nobles were decapitated. Now I had the opportunity to present the new Drupal 7 theme layer at the Drupal Stockholm, and that will cost 40 modules their head. The 2. Bloodbath in stockholm: drupal 7 theming ;)

Whats new in Drupal7 Theming

I must admit I have been very lazy (and busy at work) so I havent been putting so much time, as i should, into the whole Drupal7 theme, as i would and should - But WOW the theme layer looks so sweet it will turn water into beer
For realz we can no finally do what we always wanted to do \mm/

Heres my slides fromt the session: whats new in drupal 7 theming slides

Drupal 7 Theming is gonna change the way we look at themes!

1. Drupal render & hide
   You can now hide elements from the $content, and print them later in the .tpl files
   so something like this
   
     //hide elements from $content
  hide($content['field_image']);
  hide($content['links']);

  //print whatever thats we didnt hide
  print render($content);

  //print the image field
  print render($content['field_image']); 
2. hook_form_alter
   This is really awesome - themes can now actually do stuff with forms!
   This basically means that the small module a themer have to do to be able to change even the simpelst things in a form. is now going away.
   Ive heard some developers crying that now the themer can destroy the site - well get down from your high horse please ... We can do that allready - die("Im sick and tired of having to add modules to change my markup");
   This means that we now have the same tools as the modules have to change the markup - so now it make sence to learn that form api thing ;)
   Seriously im so hyped about this that i wanna make drupal7 Sites now!
3. hook_page_alter
   Grap the whole page just before its rendered, and mess around with it its one biiiig array so you can really fun
   with the content for the final page

And thats just a small part of whats new so go grap a devel version of d7 it now and play around its amazing

Resources

• John "Got 20 Dollars" Albin screen cast "D7 theming is so awesome youll need to change you pants
• Moshe talk about render() from DrupalCon paris
• upgrade d6 -> d7 notes
• the Theme Issue list

Mothership

I did the first real presentation of my "clean up the html" theme, showed of some of the coolness that themes can get out of using the mothership as a preloading theme. I really hope I can get other front end loving geeks into rocking with me on this so we can get the markup to be as beautiful on the front end as it is on the backend
A thing i was really happy with was the comments "Im happy that im not the only one that cares about the way the source looks"
Will mothership be ported to drupal 7 - well what do you think ;)

All you html are belong to us Slides

Sweden Röcks

The worlds first hard rock Drupal Tribute band saw the light of day at the event: Kitten Killers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2pXcNu4GRo

Watch them live: http://www.twitvid.com/F2F66

They totally Gets the Drüpal Rocks concept ;)
What im hoping for is the rewrite of Judas Priests classic: "Breaking the Law" try shifting that out with "Hacking core"...

Im hoping that we can get them to play copenhagen sometime in 2010

Its pretty cool to se how much ass the swedes are kicking - Last time I hooked up with the Swedes, Druplicon got laid at my local bar - Besides of hanging out and talking drupal for 2 days.

A big thanx to the nodeone Guys & Girls they have been wonderful host. and have made sure that everything just worked and us invited guest really felt welcome all around.
oooh and Big kudos! for make sure that I had a hotel booking now im staying the weekend here in stockholm with the Queen - i mean how awesome is that! Its the Drupal community love kicking in.

Its actually hard when I as a Dane see the swedes raising the standards for drupal comunity buikding - but you better belive that the Drupal Copenhagen Camp in May will follow up on this, and redifine awesomeness! if not ill change my name to Rainbow moonbeam!