Jtemplate is the first step towards Joodr,It aims at allowing usage of vast number of premium joomla templates with drupal with minimal effort. It is basically a set of Drupal Module and a templating Engine based on phptemplate. The idea is to allow the use of Joomla templates on Drupal as good templates for drupal are missing, drupal templating is expensive and few premium template providers who are there charge really high.Currently you just need to upload the template to the themes directory and just create a dummy template_name.infofile in the directory and the rest everything is taken care by Jtemplate.
Currently a lot of work is still remaining but here are a few features -
- Drupal 6 supported
- Joomla 1.5 templates compatible
- Little to no changes required to Joomla templates
- Support for Template params and Template styes from admin
- Effects and Suckerfish menus supported
- Tested with premium templates from some providers.
Anyhow will be releasing the download soon , am looking for people to help me improve it for now.As everything does not work 
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You can check a demo here – http://joodr.org/demo/ . The demo is running plain Drupal 6.5 with Jtemplate installed. The template is from rocketheme , with no changes or editing done .
Here is an alpha release as im not getting time to work on it , this is meant for people comfortable with drupal and know what they are doing.
Upload the site structure in the zip file and enable jtemplate module in the admin. To create menus use joomla like names mainmenu,footer,usermenu etc for drupal menu name. Also make the default drupal theme as admin theme from settings.
what about loading speed when you play joomla templates on drupal ? slow than normal ?
Yep itll be a little slow compared to phptempalte templates. But then the difference should not be noticeable. The only thing added are a few preg_matches and str_replaces .
Nothing to worry about here .
Good idea, but how about, theming nodes/pages, etc ? drupal with joomla design its magic :d thanks for your work and effort
Is this likely to become a drupal project? I would be very interested in working on this with you, any chance of a download so we can test this?
Nope not a drupal project yet. Im gonna keep it under wraps till i dont see its stable enough.
Love the idea, would love trying it even more.
I have a pro membership with rockettheme, but have moved more towards drupal.
I can help with coding if you need it.
Ive released a alpha for demo , still requires a lot of work .
Very Cool Stuff! I have played around with Joomla 1.5 in the past and just making the reluctant but necessary transition into Drupal 6 for some project ideas I have had:)
I like what you have done thus far as I’m a fan of rockettheme templated sites. You mention that not everything works and you need volunteers to help. What areas do you need the most help in? As time allows me to get away from my already chaotic work schedule, I would love to help as you’re onto a cool concept here;)
Best of Regards,
Clifton
Download the files and try it out yourself. Basically not everything has been themed , only the basic stuff has been.
So all the other stuff need custom template files.
Can you give an example of the “dummy” theme.info file for the RocketThemes used in the demo? I’m new to drupal and find myself a little confused on that fron.
My fellow on Orkut shared this link and I’m not dissapointed that I came here.
p.s. Year One is already on the Internet and you can watch it for free.
Maintain a consistent look on all pages. Use the same color, same font, and same navigation bar .
This is cool, thank you. How about theming nodes?