Content-type specific templates not working [#418816]

Hi Sorry to be a PITA but here is what I have done exactly:
1) Installed the module
2) copied node-form.tpl.php to themes\garland\node-form-autowxob.tpl.php
3) edited the file themes\garland\node-form-autowxob.tpl.php to read:

<?php ?> 
<div class="node-form">
  <div class="standard">
    <?php print $standard; ?>
  </div>
  <?php print $admin; ?>
  <?php print $buttons; ?>
  <!-- this is crap to test the template-->
</div>

4) rebuilt the theme registry and deleted all caches
5) tried to create a new autowxob and could not find my comment in the source code of the page

So I am confused, am I doing something wrong here?

Comments

Comment #1

afox commented 31 March 2009 at 19:47

Title:

Have confused myself beyond usefulness lol

» Content-type specific templates not working

I had the same thing. Apparently the content type specific templates are not working.

I just used a short code to determine the content type in node-form.tpl.php:

<?php if($type == 'your-content-type'){ ?>

<div class="node-form">
  <div class="standard">
    <?php print $standard; ?>
  </div>
  <?php print $admin; ?>
  <?php print $buttons; ?>
</div>

<?php }else{ ?>

<div class="node-form">
  <div class="standard">
    <?php print $standard; ?>
  </div>
  <?php print $admin; ?>
  <?php print $buttons; ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>

Comment #2

effulgentsia commented 31 March 2009 at 23:12

I just tried it and it works for me. One thing to be aware of is that to make a type-specific tpl file work, you also need the base tpl file in the same folder. So you would need both a copy of node-form.tpl.php (which could be an exact copy of the one that comes with the module or a customized one if you want a customization to apply to all node forms) AND a node-form-TYPE.tpl.php in your theme's folder. This is a generic rule for Drupal 6 which is documented here: http://drupal.org/node/190815#template-suggestions.

@spydmobile: If this works for you, please mark the issue fixed. If not, please add another comment. Thanks.

Comment #3

spydmobile commented 1 April 2009 at 14:57

Hey thanks! I Indeed did *NOT* have the node-form.tpl.php file in the garland folder, unfortuanately
1) I placed it there,
2) used the devel empty cache function
3) Clicked to created a new autowxob
4) and checked the source of the node creation form and still did not find my comment,
5) so I can only conclude that this did not solve my problem.

I am willing to try whatever else you guys can suggest.