By slimandslam on

In Drupal 5, it was easy to create per-module templates
by using a switch statement in the page.tpl.php file like this:

<?php 
if ($is_front) {/* check if it's the front page */
    include 'page-front.tpl.php'; /*load a custom front-page.tpl.php */
    return; }
if ($node->type == 'contact') {/* check if it's a contact page */
    include 'page-contact.tpl.php'; /*load page-contact.tpl.php */
    return; }
if ($node->type == 'forums') {/* check if it's a forum page */
    include 'page-forum.tpl.php'; /*load page-forum.tpl.php */
    return; }
include 'page-default.tpl.php'; 
    return;
?>

Under Drupal 6, this sort of works, but not really. :-)
Can someone provide a Drupal 6 version of the code above?
Would it go in the template.tpl.php file, or the page.tpl.php file?

Thanks,

J

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zeta ζ commented

http://drupal.org/node/173880
http://drupal.org/node/223440
http://drupal.org/node/190815
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slimandslam commented

Thanks. Can you show me one existing theme that replicates
the behaviour I want instead of these pages of documentation
that have almost no examples?

J

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zeta ζ commented

I doubt that any contrib theme will have a separate template for different pages.

All you need to do is note the path of the pages you wish to use a different template, then use the common part to name you template;
page-forum.tpl.php will be used for all pages at yoursite.com/forum
page-front.tpl.php should work ‘out of the box’.
You don’t need to include them any where.
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slimandslam commented

Another thing -- those pages of documentation don't clearly indicate how to change the top-level wrapper for the module output. I can see how to override the display of the module output, but what I'm trying to do is much simpler -- I just want Drupal to use a specific template for all of a certain module's output e.g. use page-forums.tpl.php as the "container" for all forum output.

J