change theme by node or path? like administrator can have a different theme.
webengr - June 19, 2007 - 23:59
With drupal 5.x the "Admistration Theme" can be set so that the administration pages
can use a different theme. A good feature, especially if the default theme goes crazy.
My question, is there a way to have a different theme used for different parts of the website
in a similar fashion?
for example, say the site is www.foomall.com and I want a different theme for some of the sub directories,
like something green/tropical for www.foomall.com/dayspa and maybe something blue theme for www.foomall.com/poolsupplies
Is there an existing module that I missed that can do this? Is this a BAD idea or okay?
In principle it seems like a good idea....
TIA.
taxonomy or node based
Well, you should at least look at:
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_theme
http://drupal.org/project/referer_theme
http://drupal.org/project/viewtheme
View - Theme might be what you're looking for, I haven't used it myself. My first reaction would be to create paths and use drupal_goto to change the theme using the referer theme module above, but that's just a quick idea.
If
Here's another article about customizing paths http://drupal.org/node/104316
thanks
thanks for the good suggestions, I love the way drupal is growing, but it does get more difficult to know about all the possible modules.
IN answer to my question, http://drupal.org/node/104316 seemed like the direct way to do what I asked.
I thought I could create a custom template, by just copying an existing template, set it to default, THEN, add some template pages like page-dayspa.tpl.php and page-poolsupplies.tpl.php
and anything down those paths would use a different template for those pages..... under foomall
but then I read:
So it may not be that simple because I was using path...
I should also play with "views" so I can see if that is the direction best for me. Thanks again.
THE ANSWER
THE ANSWER
Taxonomy THEME
with "Extended" selected.
UNDER "Taxonomy Theme"
Enable 'Extended' (path-based) assignment of themes
Enables you to assign themes to paths (e.g. node/21) and path aliases.
So for my foomall/poolsupplies I could enter
pool*
in the EXTENEDED tab under the the theme bluemarine and anything under
that path will have the bluemarine theme.
NOTE, if you select "Allow all themes"
and enter a path under "Extended(Paths)"
but the theme you selected was not checked
in allowed thems under site building/thmes
then the blocks don't show and other things are off....
THANKS ALL.
Taxonomy Theme
The Taxonomy Theme module did it. Thanks a lot, webengr.
DRUPAL 6 -- theme change modules may not be mature
Looks Like the above suggested modules for switching/changing theme by path are not stable for drupal6 as of this notation. None of those seem to have recent drupal 6 nor 7 activity.
Taxonomy Theme has 2008-Jun-15 as last devel input for drupal 6.
I found themekey which states alpha available for drupal 6 and it seems more active with a date of 2009-Sep-25,
http://drupal.org/project/themekey
and a related add on,
http://drupal.org/project/themekey_properties
SO hope that helps..
BTW I am guessing many custom themes looks inside themselves perhaps...
If you are making a custom theme, what you might could do is change the page template by
some conditional in your theme, so rather than having a module switch the theme, have the theme
output differently based upon conditionals?