11.6. Hands-On: Using template.php for Overrides

11.6.1. Overriding a Template Variable

Drupal gives us lots of nice variables to use, but they don’t always look the way we prefer. A common item that many people wish they could change is the “Submitted by...” line, which prints out the author name and date that a node was created. You can turn this display off and on in the theme configuration screen at Administer→Site building→Themes (admin/build/themes), under the Configure tab (admin/build/themes/settings), but you can’t change what information is actually printed out when the display is on. We’re going to change this line to instead print out “Posted on” followed by the date, as shown in Figure 11-18.

Figure 11-18. Changing the text of the “Submitted by…” line to “Posted on…”