Node Form Template 6.x-1.0-beta3

The editing form of a node is themed using theme('node_form'), which is implemented by the theme_node_form() function in Drupal core's node module and can be overridden by adding a _node_form() function in the theme's template.php file. However, this is less convenient and less powerful than taking advantage of Drupal's templating system. Why not be able to override by placing a node-form.tpl.php file in the theme's folder and allow modules to use preprocess functions for customization? This module allows exactly that.If you want, take a peek at the module's default node-form.tpl.php implementation, which includes documentation you might find useful before deciding if you want to use this module.This module also lets you have type-specific tpl files. For example, a node-form-story.tpl.php file if you want to customize the node editing form for story nodes only. However, to take advantage of this, you need to have a copy of a default node-form.tpl.php in the same folder as the type-specific one. This is due to drupal's way of handling template suggestions.As an alternative to this module, you might want to check out the node form columns module, which provides a different API for themers and also a pretty cool UI for customizing the node form entirely through point-and-click. For now, however, these two modules are entirely incompatible with each other -- you cannot have both enabled on the same site. Hugo (the maintainer of node form columns) and I hope to have a solution to this at some point.Note if upgrading from beta1 to beta2: Thanks to a recommendation from webchick, the tpl file is now more themer-friendly. However, it's not backwards compatible with beta1, so when you upgrade, you'll also need to update the node-form.tpl.php file in your theme's folder, if you have one there.Beta2 introduced a critical bug #437114: Author Information Form Element disappears and author of nodes is allways "guest", so upgrading to beta3 is strongly encouraged.

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Platforms:	PHP
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