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chris_bcn · 14-12-2007, 13:56

Are there any Drupal people on here. I'm using it for a new project and getting increasinly frustrated. We have someone building thte backjen in Drupal who is telling me that it's very difficult to give me access to the HTML of the blocks.

Or rather the content of the blocks. I can edit the block.tpl.php file, and alter the containers, but I want to edit the content of the $content variable (all I want to do is change a <ul> to a <dl>, and change the wording of the login block).

Code:


<div id="block-<?php print $block->module .'-'. $block->delta; ?>" class="block block-<?php print $block->module ?>">

  <?php if ($block->subject): ?>
    <h2 class="title"><?php print $block->subject; ?></h2>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <div class="content">
    <?php print $block->content; ?> <--- I want to edit the content of this variable
  </div>

</div><!-- /block-inner, /block -->

I can't believe that a CMS would make it that difficult for the designer to alter the markup. Is there an easy way.

Movable Type is frustrating but I'm longing to use it again after this experience. I don't know if it's a limitation of the platform or the engineer.

14-12-2007, 13:56	#1 (permalink)
chris_bcn Goodbye little old lady Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Geordie in SF Posts: 340	Is Drupal really this bad? Are there any Drupal people on here. I'm using it for a new project and getting increasinly frustrated. We have someone building thte backjen in Drupal who is telling me that it's very difficult to give me access to the HTML of the blocks. Or rather the content of the blocks. I can edit the block.tpl.php file, and alter the containers, but I want to edit the content of the $content variable (all I want to do is change a <ul> to a <dl>, and change the wording of the login block). Code: <div id="block-<?php print $block->module .'-'. $block->delta; ?>" class="block block-<?php print $block->module ?>"> <?php if ($block->subject): ?> <h2 class="title"><?php print $block->subject; ?></h2> <?php endif; ?> <div class="content"> <?php print $block->content; ?> <--- I want to edit the content of this variable </div> </div><!-- /block-inner, /block --> I can't believe that a CMS would make it that difficult for the designer to alter the markup. Is there an easy way. Movable Type is frustrating but I'm longing to use it again after this experience. I don't know if it's a limitation of the platform or the engineer.