How to theme the Event content type node creation form in drupal 6?

Question

I have installed Event module which gave me an "Event" content type.

I want to theme the node edit/creation form for the Event content type that automatically comes once the Event module is enabled.

I have tried defining the custom tpl to handle but it's not working. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

It all depends on what changes you want to make, but the standard way of altering forms in D6 (and D7) is invoking hook_form_alter() in a custom module. Do a switch on the form_id, and enter your edits, something like this:

YOUR_MODULE_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  // print $form_id; exit;
  switch($form_id){
    case 'event_node_form':
      // change the form. The following will alter the text on the submit button:
      $form['submit']['#value'] = 'Go!';
      break;
  }
  return $form;
}

If you don't know what the form_id is of the form you want to edit, just uncomment the print $form_id line and visit the form in your browser. You can refer to the D6 form api guide to find what form elements go with which properties. Hope that helps!