Default theme implementation to display a file.

Available variables:

  • $label: the (sanitized) file name of the file.
  • $content: An array of file items. Use render($content) to print them all, or print a subset such as render($content['field_example']). Use hide($content['field_example']) to temporarily suppress the printing of a given element.
  • $date: Formatted added date. Preprocess functions can reformat it by calling format_date() with the desired parameters on the $timestamp variable.
  • $name: Themed username of file owner output from theme_username().
  • $file_url: Direct URL of the current file.
  • $classes: String of classes that can be used to style contextually through CSS. It can be manipulated through the variable $classes_array from preprocess functions. The default values can be one or more of the following:

    • file: The current template type, i.e., "theming hook".
    • file-[type]: The current file type. For example, if the file is a "Image" file it would result in "file-image". Note that the machine name will often be in a short form of the human readable label.
    • file-[mimetype]: The current file's MIME type. For exampe, if the file is a PNG image, it would result in "file-image-png"
  • $title_prefix (array): An array containing additional output populated by modules, intended to be displayed in front of the main title tag that appears in the template.
  • $title_suffix (array): An array containing additional output populated by modules, intended to be displayed after the main title tag that appears in the template.

Other variables:

  • $file: Full file object. Contains data that may not be safe.
  • $type: File type, i.e. image, audio, video, etc.
  • $uid: User ID of the file owner.
  • $timestamp: Time the file was added formatted in Unix timestamp.
  • $classes_array: Array of html class attribute values. It is flattened into a string within the variable $classes.
  • $zebra: Outputs either "even" or "odd". Useful for zebra striping in listings.
  • $id: Position of the file. Increments each time it's output.

File status variables:

  • $view_mode: View mode, e.g. 'default', 'full', etc.
  • $page: Flag for the full page state.
  • $is_front: Flags true when presented in the front page.
  • $logged_in: Flags true when the current user is a logged-in member.
  • $is_admin: Flags true when the current user is an administrator.

Field variables: for each field instance attached to the file a corresponding variable is defined, e.g. $file->caption becomes $caption. When needing to access a field's raw values, developers/themers are strongly encouraged to use these variables. Otherwise they will have to explicitly specify the desired field language, e.g. $file->caption['en'], thus overriding any language negotiation rule that was previously applied.

See also

template_preprocess()

template_preprocess_file_entity()

template_process()

File

modules/file/templates/file.tpl.php

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