What is the differnce between a theme and a template?

There is a misconception on my part every time I encounter these. Can you help me figure out their differences

I think this is not important, how a design product called. The main thing is it  functionallity.

 Templates:  are used to display the content of our site.
Themes:   are the collections of templates,images and the things which are used to create the entire page..
Is this correct?

But isn't it that functionality is also incorporated with the design?

As you  remeber we talk about theme and template, not just about design

Theme refers to a set of files which control the HTML generation/presentation. For each request the drupal and modules create the data as a data structure (associative array or object). The theme layer takes this data and creates HTML. It also has css files to control styling.

Template in the context of a theme are files with the html code, with placeholders for actual data. in the case of php templates the placeholders are php variables. Template files contain the html generated for a particular piece of content like node, block etc.

Can you use both in doing a website? Like putting a template and using a theme on it?

Template in the context of a topic are documents with the html cipher, with placeholders for genuine data. in the case of php templates the placeholders are php variables

Thanks for all the answers. It helped a lot.

Thank you for noelagnote

i agree with that answer thanks

Hello Dear Friend,

I think a theme is made up of a collection of template files are all template files which when combined with your CSS, JS and images produces a theme. In addition a themes can be inherited. A theme can be created with just CSS and no additional template files by inheriting from an existing theme, in which case the template files from the parent theme are used. Another way to look at it is a theme is what you see and the template files are responsible for generating the markup.



I hope this makes it a little bit clearer.

Good Luck.......!

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Charlesangl1

A "theme" is a fully developed look for a functioning system. It's usually very involved (code wise) and made for a specific purpose. A template is simpler, and can be more easily adapted to various purposes. It's usually just CSS and XHTML (and images)

I had a feeling you were going to reply that way. Thank you.

 a "theme" is just a special type of plugin that bundles together any number of templates (to control how a given piece of data gets rendered to HTML), CSS, JS files, images, and so on.

So, there is a single "template" for your oveevral page markup, a single "template" for how a sidebar block is rendered as HTML, and so on. All of them, bundled together and named, are referred to as a theme.

themes are a "group" of settings that you use. it can be changed from time to time depending on the user's preference. templates on the other hand are used like ready made designs - not as easily changeable as themes are.

can you explain that in more simple words.

really now I think the template and theme are the same things, just synomyms))

Great ....
I do not understand it at all ....

you do not understand the different, because it does not exist)))))

Thanks to all friends for this information like me many other people get confused between them and templates.

Theme refers to a set of files which control the HTML generation/presentation. For each request the drupal and modules create the data as a data structure (associative array or object). The theme layer takes this data and creates HTML. It also has css files to control styling.

Template in the context of a theme are files with the html code, with placeholders for actual data. in the case of php templates the placeholders are php variables. Template files contain the html generated for a particular piece of content like node, block etc.

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Theme refers to a set of files that control the HTML presentation. For each request the drupal and modules create the data as a data structure(associative array or object). The theme layer takes this data and creates HTML. It also has css files to control styling.

Template in the context of a theme are files with the html code, with placeholders for actual data. in the case of php templates the placeholders are php variables. Template files contain the html generated for a particular piece of content like node, block etc.

Theme = lots of files in a folder - for example; page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php, block.tpl.php, style.css, template.php
Template = one file, for example; page.tpl.php

A theme is therefore many files that work together and a template is just one of the files .
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Templates are files that help you design interesting, compelling, and professional-looking documents. They contain content and design elements that you can use as a starting point when creating a document.

To give your document a designer-quality look ? a look with coordinating colors and fonts ? you'll want to apply a theme. You can use and share themes among the Office for Mac applications that support themes, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

The term theme is used whan there is a CMS already built and you change the design by adding a files in the template folder and set it from teh admin panel the exact way what you do with Wordpress themes.

But Template is refered when you create the entire website in a design which is in HTML and static.