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Both these are needed to work for teaser nodes in a view, at least:

All, not just most, but all the content on a particular site was set to be posted without showing the by-line or submitted by text. Given this requirement, it makes no sense to have search results show the user that submitted the content, every time. This can be themed away in search-result.tpl.php or it can be removed with a pre-process function as shown below.

You can do this from a module or a theme, where 'example' is the system name of that module or theme:

This code goes in a module (not in template.php).

Drupal 6 introduces the feature of choosing an administration theme, and it can be any theme that is physically present in your Drupal installation; it does not have to be enabled. You simply select the theme at admin/settings/admin

However, to modify which blocks are in which region, to have the theme show up on the configure blocks page at admin/build/blocks, you must enable the theme at admin/build/themes (once you are done you can disable it again).

So it's 1am and you want to theme the search form output of your brand new drupal 6 theme, here's the quick and easy one step guide that will get you though it. Yep, that's right, 1 step, because that's how we do it the agaric way...

Resolution

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Paste the code below into into your trusty template.php file and customize to your heart's desire... (leave out the php open and closing tags, we use em to make the output look nice, with pretty colors and stuff...)

Drupal's administration theme functionality works very simply: if the first argument of the internal path is admin, the custom theme is set to the admin theme.

This suggests that the $custom_theme variable can be set by modules to change to any arbitrary theme, and it will override the default theme.

The setting of custom_theme to admin_theme is done in system module's implementation of hook_menu:

Motivation for this function: sure, we could use a plain node_load($nid) and wrap every $node->field['0']['value'] in a check_plain or the function for rendering with the proper input format (check_plain). The proper format is available to be grabbed from the data provided by a regular node_load. But that's a lot of work and not the way we're used to theming things in .tpl.php