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

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.

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

Thanks so much for this! I spent a ton of time looking on the stupid Drupal site and tried about 20 things that didn't work.

Ugh!