By ljet on

I'd like to create the custom front page with my own design which excludes left and right side bars.
From that custom front page, after i click on the text, it goes to the default home page which includes left, right and contents.
How can i create this custom front page/theme in drupal 4.7?
Please advise me.
Thanks in advance.

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bs’s picture

bs commented

hi,
You can put php code at the top of page.tpl like..

<?php
if ($is_front){
include 'front-page.tpl;
return
}
?>

and then copy page.tpl , rename it as front-page.tpl and remove side_bar left and side_bar right regions in front-page.tpl
Cheers!

ljet’s picture

ljet commented

Many Thanks.

archer007’s picture

archer007 commented

I get the following error with that code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in C:\wamp\www\drupal-6-3upgr\themes\marinelli\page.tpl.php on line 11

I have front-page.tpl.php created and adjusted the code accordingly. The code gives no errors if I put a semicolon after return. What's going on here??

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archer007 commented

Will the inverse of this work? Can I have a site with columns only on the front page in Drupal 6?

yasir farooqui’s picture

yasir farooqui commented

You can create two files 'page.tpl.php' and 'page-front.tpl.php', drupal will consider page-front.tpl.php only for the front page and page.tpl.php for all other pages. Now show the left and right regions only in page-front.tpl.php and remove them from page.tpl.php

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sturgjoh commented

Have you tried the frontpage module?

It is configurable as to what you can display and to whom...

I've jsut installed it.

Thanks

John