Theming Drupal user login page

Since I didn't find a good tutorial for theming the Drupal login page I wrote one here. This is for the page if you want to theme the login block or login form take a look at http://drupal.org/node/350634.

Getting a page template for the user login page should be as easy as copying your page.tpl.php file and renaming it to page-user-login.tpl.php. Problem is when I tested this It didn't run on /user but only on /user/login. To get the same template file to run on both you add in your template.php:

function YOURTHEME_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
// Check to see that the user is not logged in and that we're on the correct page.
if ($vars['user']->uid == 0 && arg(0) == 'user' && (arg(1) == '' || arg(1) == 'login')) {
// Add a custom template-file.
array_unshift($vars['template_files'], 'page-login');
// Add body classes for easier css.
$vars['body_classes'] .= ' userlogin';
}
}

Note you could add arg(1) == 'register' or 'password' to have it set on those pages as well.

The last part adds a body class for our login page so that you in your theme can use for example:

.userlogin a {
color: green;
}

That CSS will only be visible on the /user and /user/login for anonymous users. The body class .page-user that you will have as a default is also set on /user for authenticated users.

Now copy your page.tpl.php and rename it to page-login.tpl.php. Then flush all caches an you should be good to go to edit your page-login.tpl.php file without affecting other pages.

Nov 30 2010

Hej Det måste vara nått fel i

Submitted by Emma (not verified) on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 19:54.

Hej
Det måste vara nått fel i syntaxen?..dreamweaver visar att det är något som är fel och så fungerar inte tampleten alls...

Aj då, en missad parentes :)

Submitted by viktormiranda on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 02:12.

Aj då, en missad parentes :) Nu ska det fungera.

nice theme! Thx for

Submitted by sunny bear (not verified) on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 08:14.

nice theme! Thx for sharing!!
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Hi, I tried doing this, but

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 04:24.

Hi,

I tried doing this, but it doesn't seem my changes are taking effect. I double-checked my code and cleared up my theme registry. Any help?

Referring to my previous

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 04:33.

Referring to my previous comment, I tried changing page.tpl.php and it worked fine. But when I copied page.tpl.php and renamed it to page-login.tpl.php, the changes went away. Any help?

Once again, referring to my

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 04:53.

Once again, referring to my previous 2 posts, it seems page-user-login.tpl.php works great. However when I use the code above in YOURTHEME_preprocess_page and then try page-login.tpl.php, it seems to fail. Could it possibly be because I'm using a subtheme and hence array_unshift($vars['template_files'], 'page-login'); is referring to a file in the main theme?

Hi, have you switched

Submitted by viktormiranda on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 23:54.

Hi, have you switched YOURTHEME for your own theme name? This works on a sub-theme as well. Also have you cleared all caches afterwards at /admin/settings/performance?

Thanks alot! I think there is

Submitted by Nikolay Borisov (not verified) on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 19:12.

Thanks alot! I think there is a tiny typo in the code. If my template file is called page-user-login shoudn't the next line be like this (at least this one worked for me):

array_unshift($vars['template_files'], 'page-user-login');