11.4. Hands-On: Working with Template Files

11.4.1. Modifying a Template File

Now let’s look at customizing the page.tpl.php file. This is the file that defines the general HTML structure of the entire page. The theme engine and enabled modules make a number of variables available to this file, and then these variables are simply output using PHP print statements. Let’s change the structure of our theme by moving the breadcrumb output up into the header region of the page. We want our breadcrumbs to look like those shown in Figure 11-10.

Figure 11-10. Breadcrumbs appearing in the header