Control display of Slide show from page.tpl.php

Posted by doncheks on November 21, 2012 at 12:27pm

Hey guys,I just downloaded a drupal starter pack.The default theme has a slide show option.Problem is when slideshow is set to yes,it shows on all the site pages.The slideshow is not a block but is coded into the theme's page.tpl.php file, and there is no way to control its visibility from theme settings
I opened page.tpl.php and here is what I found

	  <!-- Banner Area -->
<?php if(theme_get_setting('slideshow')=='yes'): ?>
	 <div class = "slideshow-banner">
		 	 <div class = "page-center">  <!--page center start-->
				 <div id="slideshow-area">
					  <div id="slideshow">
<?php print render($slideshow); ?>
					  </div>
				  </div>

			  </div> <!--page center end-->
	 </div> <!--slideshow-banner end-->
<?php endif; ?>

 </div> <!-- End Header Wrapper -->

How do I make the slideshow to show only on the home page.Thanks.

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There are a few ways you

Posted by mshepherd on November 21, 2012 at 1:16pm

There are a few ways you could approach that.

I would probably copy the page.tpl.php to page--front.tpl.php (note the 2 hyphens). Edit the page.tpl.php file and delete this section:

<?php if(theme_get_setting('slideshow')=='yes'): ?>
<div class = "slideshow-banner">
<div class = "page-center">  <!--page center start-->
<div id="slideshow-area">
  <div id="slideshow">
<?php print render($slideshow); ?>
  </div>
  </div>

  </div> <!--page center end-->
</div> <!--slideshow-banner end-->
<?php endif; ?>

Reset the theme registry (if you use drush, drush cc all will do that for you, otherwise go here: http://drupal.org/node/337176).

The slideshow should now appear on the front page, but no other pages

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Posted by mshepherd on November 21, 2012 at 1:18pm

accidental double post - apologies

Thanks

Posted by doncheks on November 21, 2012 at 1:55pm

Thanks man.Will give this a try but was hoping i could solve it by modifying page.tpl.php file.
I checked and there is a module page theme that can allow me to switch themes for pages.
However modifying the php statement to show the slideshow only on the front page will be the best solution.Thanks again.Still trying.

Another way

Posted by mshepherd on November 22, 2012 at 2:20pm

If you want to avoid creating new template files, you could also extend the conditional in the code there with if(theme_get_setting('slideshow')=='yes' AND drupal_is_front_page()):. Like this:

<?php if(theme_get_setting('slideshow')=='yes' AND drupal_is_front_page()): ?>
  <div class = "slideshow-banner">
    <div class = "page-center">  <!--page center start-->
      <div id="slideshow-area">
        <div id="slideshow">
          <?php print render($slideshow); ?>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div> <!--page center end-->
  </div> <!--slideshow-banner end-->
<?php endif; ?>

So you're also checking if the front page is the current page.

More about the function I've used at http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!path.inc/function/drupal_is_front_page/7

Control display of Slide show from page.tpl.php

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There are a few ways you

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Thanks

Another way

Perfect Solution

you're welcome :-)

I'd say the module you