Blog Theme for Expression Engine convert to Drupal

page.tpl.php

From what I can see, EE has a file called index.txt that displays almost everything. This file is our page.tpl.php candidate.

Remove the

{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="journal"}

{assign_variable:main_template_group="bartelme"}

from the beginning of the index.txt file

In the html definition, replace @{lang}@ with @en@ - this is just a fix for en web sites - a proper i18n solution should be implemented for production sites

Replace {exp:weblog:info weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}{blog_title}{/exp:weblog:info} with @@

Drupal adds metadata itself, so you don't have to worry about it - so remove it

Remove links to stylesheets and javascripts and add

Replace @{homepage}@ with @@

Replace @{exp:weblog:info weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}{blog_title}{/exp:weblog:info}@ with @@

Replace @{exp:weblog:info weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}{blog_description}{/exp:weblog:info}@ with @@

Replace the navigation block with


  print theme('links', $primary_links, array('class' => 'navmenu primary-links'));

} ?>


  print theme('links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'navmenu secondary-links'));

} ?>

Replace the search code @{exp:search:simple_form search_in="everywhere" result_page="search/results"}...{/exp:search:simple_form}@ with @@ we will assign the search form to the header block to appear here

In the About section, replace the paragraph text with the mission statement @@

In the posts section, add the Drupal messages, help, tabs and the rest


  

  
'. $mission .'
'; } ?>

  
'; } ?>

  
'. $title .'
'; } ?>

  
'; } ?>

Copy the text to print the posts and paste it to node.tpl.php

Replace the code @{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="1" sort="desc" orderby="date"}...{/exp:weblog:entries}@ and @{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="2" offset="1" sort="desc" orderby="date"}...{/exp:weblog:entries}@ with

 strlen('

')) && (substr($content, 0, strlen('

')) == '

')) {

  print $content;

} else {

  print '

' . $content . '
';

} ?>

Remove the Comments block as this is also managed by Drupal

Replace the code inside the sidebar-wrapper with @
@

Replace the code inside the footer section with @@

The final page.tpl.php file looks like





  

  <?php print $head_title; ?>



            

            
'. $mission .'
'; } ?>

            
'; } ?>

            
'. $title .'
'; } ?>

            
'; } ?>

            

            

            
      	  
           strlen('

')) && (substr($content, 0, strlen('

')) == '

')) {

            print $content;

     	  } else {

            print '

' . $content . '
';

      	  } ?>





      
    


    


        Design Copyright © 1999 – 2006 Wolfgang Bartelme |

        Theme Ported by Sadhana Ganapathiraju
      

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node.tpl.php

As mentioned above, strip out the part of the index.txt file that deals with posts (or nodes in Drupal-talk) and put it into a node.tpl.php file.

The new node.tpl.php file should contain {title} {entry_date format="%d %M %Y"} {comment_total} Comments {exp:markdown}{summary}{/exp:markdown} continue reading "{title}"
and all this needs to be converted
Replace @{entry_id_path=bartelme/comments}@ with @@
Replace @{title}@ with @@
Replace @{entry_date format="%d %M %Y"}@ with @created); ?>@
Replace the comments section with @
' . $links . '

'; } ?>@
Replace @{exp:markdown}{summary}{/exp:markdown}@ with @
' . $title . '

'; } ?>@
Replace @continue reading "{title}"@ with
Add a line to print the taxonony terms @
' . $terms . '

'; } ?>@

The final node.tpl.php file should look something like the following




    created); ?>

    
' . $terms . '
'; } ?>

    
' . $links . '
'; } ?>
  

    
' . $title . '
'; } ?>

comment.tpl.php

Copy the node.tpl.php file to comment.tpl.php.

Update it a bit to suit comments and you have something like
timestamp); ?> new) { print '' . '' . drupal_ucfirst($new) .''; } ?> ' . $links . ' '; } ?>