Drupal Subtheming nightmare with a happy ending

Im modifying the user login form of a normal Drupal installation using the adaptative theme. so far so good, until i started to create some template suggestion files for my subtheme.

The tpl in question is named block-user.tpl.php. So i create my .tpl file and put all the needed stuff inside it. Then I put it in the template directory of my subtheme and .. it didnt work.

• For now the file was in /sites/all/themes/adaptativetheme/subtheme/template/block-user.tpl

The second thing I did to make it work was copying that file on the template directory of the adaptative theme ( the father of my subtheme), and it works!. But why it didnt work on my subtheme?

• The copied file was in /sites/all/themes/adaptativetheme/adaptative/template/block-user.tpl and also in:
  

• /sites/all/themes/adaptativetheme/subthemename/template/block-user.tpl

The Fix
Apparently you have to had a copy of all the parent templates in your template directory. So the parent .tpl file of block-user.tpl.php is block.tpl.php. Its a bug in Drupal6, live with it because it wont be fixed. Why it works on the theme instead of the subtheme, because the Adaptative theme has that file by default. So I copy that file on my subtheme.. to no avail.

Clearing the Cache
I had the Rebuild the theme registry on every page load option on, so i wonder why it didnt work. I cleared all the cache ( Its an options that appears in the module Administration Menu, a must have module ), and Voila!, it worked in my subtheme!, so you must clear the cache when seeing funny stuff happening with your tpl files.

Optional Life Savier Info
Also they must be in the same directory as the parents of your subtheme. So if your main theme saves all our .tpl files in the templateyeah carpet, you need to create the same carpet in your subtheme.

Hope this little article help someone drupaling. Happy coding!

Drupal Lightbox2 and Paging

So I had a strange problem with an ecommerce site Im developing. The site shows in the front page some products. The Owner told me to put a button with the magnifying glass over there, and when clicked, make it appear a modal box that shows more info of the product.

The Magnifying Glass in all it splendor

So hands at work, i use the lightbox2 and views module to make something like the owners command. The frontpage must show 8 products and if we have more, use a pager to navigate between products.

This is the pager, just in case youre asking what is a pager.

The problem? The view use paging so i show only the first eight products in the first page but if we go to the second page, problems occurs. The lightbox show all the modal boxes with the information of the first page. Oh god i smell some bug induced headache soon


The Solution
So after an entire day of debuging I found the problem: Lightbox2 is not taking in account the page you are when it retrieve the data. Basically lightbox2 use the load() function of jquery to get the WHOLE page it need to extract the info. The url of the page is inserted by lightbox2 usign the template in the file lightbox2_handler_field_lightbox2.inc

You have to change the line 124 like this:
Before:

   // We don't actually use the link, but we need it there for lightbox to function.
    if (empty($link)) {
      // Get the path name.
      $path = isset($_GET['q']) ? $_GET['q'] : '';
      //Created By Carlos
    }

After:

   // We don't actually use the link, but we need it there for lightbox to function.
    if (empty($link)) {
      // Get the path name.
      $path = isset($_GET['q']) ? $_GET['q'] : '';
      //Created By Carlos
      if(isset($_GET['page'])){
        $path = $path .'?page='.$_GET['page'];
      }
      $link = url($path, array('absolute' => TRUE));
    }

I just get the GET value of the current page and if it have a variable called page, append ?page= and the number of the page to the path that will be inserted in the lightbox trigger. Question anyone?