Theme a CCK input form in Drupal 6

Question

In my template.php file I've this:

function myadmintheme_theme(&$existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
  return array(
    'node_form' => array(
        'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
        'template' => 'ccktype',
    ),
  );
}

And I've a ccktype.tpl.php in the same dir:

<b>works!</b>

But is not working, if I enter to node/add/ccktype I don't get the "works!" message.. I tried everything!

any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

The theme function you need to override is ccktype_node_form, not node_form. All node forms maintained by the node module get mapped to the node_form function for building, but they still have unique form ids.

Answer 2

This is the solution:

function myadmintheme_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
  return array(
    'ccktype_node_form' => array(
        'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
        'template' => 'ccktype',
    ),
  );
}

thanks a lot Eaton!

Answer 3

It started to work for me but after a loong set of trials. :) I'm using Drupal 6 & I made the mistake of writing code for Drupal 5. I used form_render (wich is meant for D5) instead of drupal_render (for D6), in my node-minister-edit.php.

And the next change in template.php was function

waffles_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path){ 
    return array( 'minister_node_form' => array( 'arguments' => array('form' => NULL), 'template' => 'node-minister-edit' ) ); 
}

See the array argument template is changed from minister to node-minister-edit which is my node specific template file. Here in minister_node_form , the first word 'minister' is my content type.

And as Seb said I cleared the caches before I started to use any such change. Hope this helps others :)

The following items have helped me out:
1. http://drupal.org/node/601646
2. http://drupal.org/node/98253

Answer 4

First of all, see that Drupal's not caching your module. Go to Administer > Site Configuration > Performance, and clear all caches.

If that doesn't work, try renaming the file to node-add-ccktype.tpl.php.