I am building a website using Drupal 7, Views, Rules, Ctools, Panels, etc.
I need to change the content color based on the date. The idea is that each quarter's reports have a different color to make them easier to sort over the life of the student.
Any ideas on how to achieve this?
In your theme, you can implement hook_preprocess_page(&$variables) were you can retrieve the currently displayed content (if any) as $variables['node']. From there, you can retrieve the value of a date field using field_get_items() and use that value to assign classes to the <body> of the page in $variables['classes_array'].
function THEME_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
if (($node = $variables['node']) && ($node->type == 'report')) {
if ($items = field_get_items('node', $node, 'field_report_date')) {
$variables['classes_array'][] = drupal_clean_css_identifier('report-month-' . format_date($items[0], 'custom', 'F'));
}
}
}
Maybe consider the ThemeKey module? From its project page (bold markup added here):
... allows you to define simple or sophisticated theme-switching rules which allow automatic selection of a theme depending on current path, taxonomy terms, language, node-type, and many, many other properties.
In combination with Drupal's theme inheritance you can easily achieve features like:
- a date/time-selected Christmas theme
- ...
So by using like 1 theme variation for each quarter you could get the job done, no?
