Rendering each page for each content type differently
evilgenius - July 1, 2008 - 19:23
Say I have a content type 'News' and I want all the pages on that particular content type to render page differently from other content/node types.
I have assigned all content types on my site to their particular URL - mysite.com/contenttype/*title. I manage to get page-news.tpl.php working but the problem with this is that the changes only occurs on mysite.com/news and not on the content view. When viewing the node already (through mysite.com/news/title) the page returns to its default page.tpl.php template. I want to render the page of mysite.com/news/title the same way as mysite.com/news. I don't know how to accomplish this.
Note that it's not the node I want to customize here, its the whole page where that node type is being displayed.
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Good question!
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See http://drupal.org/node/256302 (that discussion is big, but the answer is about three lines of code).
Wow... I myself is a TOTAL
Wow... I myself is a TOTAL newbie and this guy is claiming he's a newbie too but I can't seem to absorb all the php stuff in there. 'Three lines of code'? It really sound so simple but I don't know which/where to put the what....
I wish there is an easier way around this like creating 'page-nodetype/*title.tpl.php' or something like that.
Sorry I'm just a newbie really trying hard my way around this stuff.
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Put this in your 'template.php'. Then clear your Drupal cache. Then you'll have support for 'page-nodetype.tpl.php'. We're talking about Drupal 6.
Incidentally, note that Drupal adds a 'node-type-nodetype' CSS class to page.tpl.php's BODY tag.
Thanks so much
Thanks so much mooffie!!!
The problem is that I already have the function phptemplate_preprocess_page() in my current theme template.php with existing variables:
/**
* Override or insert PHPTemplate variables into the templates.
*/
function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
$vars['tabs2'] = menu_secondary_local_tasks();
// Hook into color.module
if (module_exists('color')) {
_color_page_alter($vars);
}
}
I'm not even really sure what it does exactly. I'm using the Framework theme btw.
... But still I tried inserting this code elsewhere in the template as per your instruction:
function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {// are we on a page that displays ONE node?
if ($vars['node']->type){
$vars['template_file'] = 'page-' . $vars['node']->type;
}
}
and it returned me a site error (as expected):
FATAL ERROR: Cannot redeclare phptemplate_preprocess_page() (previously declared)So what I did was insert the new variables to the existing function and it worked like a charm! This is my new phptemplate_preprocess_page():
function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
$vars['tabs2'] = menu_secondary_local_tasks();
// Hook into color.module
if (module_exists('color')) {
_color_page_alter($vars);
}
// are we on a page that displays ONE node?
if ($vars['node']->type){
$vars['template_file'] = 'page-' . $vars['node']->type;
}
}
So my question is... being a total newbie and all - Is that the proper way of inserting it to my existing phptemplate_preprocess_page() function? You know technically speaking. Though it did work, I just want to make sure that what I did is correct and I won't run into some problems in the future.
Thanks again.
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It's ok.
Or you could name that function XYZ_preprocess_page, where XYZ is the name of your theme.
If you don't want to alter your designer theme files (because then you'll have to update them manually when the designer changes them), then you can create a theme which is inherited from that designer theme. You'll have a 'template.php' of your own.
OK will do just that! Thank
OK will do just that!
Thank you so much mooffie for everything. This is like the 3rd time you have helped me.
P.S: You going to Drupalcon next month?
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It's 4th, a moment ago I answered another :)
(No, I'm not going.)