By jdesrig on

I needed to arrange some of the fields (on the node page) differently than they default. I found the Display Suite Module which did the trick. But now I have an issue:

I have a block which shows up on node pages. I am trying to add some php script on that block which creates a url link based on the node #. The only way I know how to do this is by doing a variable set in the node--nodetype.tpl.php on the node variable I want, and then doing variable_get on the block page (I don't think the node object is otherwise available to the block).

However, when I tried editing the tpl file, nothing happened anymore, it didn't even give me an error when I put in invalid code. It seems the file was taken over.

So, I have two questions:
1) If I can't modify this tpl file, where is the appropriate one now?
2) Is there an eaiser way to do what I am describing?

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vm commented

ds priovides it's own based on the layout you chose. ds tpl.php files are stored in ds/layouts. They can be moved to the theme folder and altered as needed (IIRC).

DS docs = http://drupal.org/node/644662

jdesrig’s picture

jdesrig commented

Do you know what variables are available in this tpl file? In the standard node.tpl.php file, I could use $content or $node to pull out the node nid, how would I do this here?

vm’s picture

vm commented

i don't know off hand. quick googlin' seems to indicate that variables with DS beghin with $ds_ ie: $ds_content
you may need to take a look with devel.

custom layouts docs: http://drupal.org/node/1098068

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jdesrig commented

I am actually also very new with devel. I know that I can click on the devel tab on the node page to see the content of $content (it doesn't say its the variable $content there, its just that I saw it in the node.tpl.php file), but in what way were you thinking about using devel to figure out my issue?

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vm commented

perhaps the best place for your question at this point is in the issue queue of the ds module as a support request. I'm sure swentel and the subcommunity of users more familiar with it's innards will be of help.

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nevets commented

If you are talking about a page that display just a node you can use

$node = menu_get_object();
if ( !empty($node) ) {
  // On a content/node page
}