Theme ? in 6: How to specify a particular page.tpl.php

Posted by thumbslinger on December 19, 2012 at 7:41pm

As much as I've read, I haven't quite got the hang of applying a new template file to, say only 5 pages.

If I design a mini-section of an overall site and for those pages I don't want the same background specified in the default, overall theme, how does drupal know to apply that particular template on those pages?

So, if I make a joggingTrails.tpl.php template and want that template used on the 4/5 pages for that section, I'm not getting how or where I tell Drupal to use that template.

Does this question make sense?

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Focusing on for those pages I

Posted by nevets on December 19, 2012 at 8:07pm

Focusing on

for those pages I don't want the same background specified in the default

you do not need (or want in my opinion) page specific variations of page.tpl.php

I would use the context module to add a context that reacts on the path (page) and adds a body class that you could use to apply css based on the body class.

ahh, interesting. That makes

Posted by thumbslinger on December 19, 2012 at 8:45pm

ahh, interesting. That makes sense. I'll look more into that way... thanks for that idea!

Now, are you referring to using Taxonomy to tag content or something else? I don't see an actual "context module" at this site.

I am referring to the Context

Posted by nevets on December 19, 2012 at 9:14pm

I am referring to the Context module.