By feeper on

May not be posted under the right area...but it is for a theme.

Seeing $content is used to basically show everything....I was wondering if there was a way of separating the title, creation date and the the article into separate variables that could be used to display the content differently. I did a bit of searching and didn't come across anything that stood out.

So basically...looking to have the following variables from $content when it comes to displaying article content.

$title
$creation
$article_content

Is there a way to do this...taking into fact that other things are passed through $content (like account view, editing content....) Not so much worried about the administration side of things seeing another theme is going to be used for this area.

I want to make it clear that I am not talking about the site title here...just the article title.

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nevets commented

If you are talking about node content you can modify node.tpl.php (applies to all content types) or for a single content type copy node.tpl.php to node-content_type.tpl.php,for example if your content type was 'bike' you would copy node.tpl.php to node-bike.tpl.php. You can then modify the new file. Not sure whats available to print, see http://drupal.org/node/11816 (for Drupal 6 see http://api.drupal.org/api/file/modules/node/node.tpl.php/6)

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feeper commented

Yea...that's what I just figured out.

http://drupal.org/node/11816

I just came to put that link in here in case somebody has a brain slow down like I just did. Thanks for the response nevets!

I guess I don't understand how it would be called (node-content.tpl.php).

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nevets commented

It's not called by your code but through the theming of the node. So when a node is viewed it is passed to a theme function which ends up using node.tpl.php by default but can also use a content specific .tpl.php if present.

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adx commented

I understand the above, that you can use the variables from http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--node--node.tpl.php/6 to show certain elements.

However, $content contains not only the body content but also any images that are uploaded. If I wanted to show an uploaded image in a different area, anyone know how I would refer to it?

I've tried things like :

<?php print $node->content['field_image']['#value'] ?>

(in a custom node.tpl.php file for the content type, and a custom page.tpl.php file is showing $content)

But I don't know if that works for a regular custom node..

Any help is appreciated!