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... including a custom template.php file in your theme. That allows you to implement functions that override default behaviors lik the construction of the links array, etc.

Also, your node.tpl.php file has access to all the details of that node's data. $submitted is just a convenience variable that te PHPTemplate engine provides. If you want to build a custom info line for the node, variables like $node->created and so on are there for you to use. :)

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I'm currently converting the theme of my site to a 4.7 PHPTemplate. Currently the theme is pure php. I find phptemplate to be very easy and flexible; to whomever wrote it: great job. I hope I can add my theme (a little spiced up) to drupal.org before 4.7 is released.

After reading your post I decided to see what other vars were available. $node->links is an array with all the links for the current node (add new comment, read more). The index for read more is not garanteed however; it depends on the amount of links. I'd like them more like array['read more'] = 'the link';

This is the ugly hack in node.tpl.php I've come up with:

<?php
    foreach($node->links as $item){
      $split = preg_split("/(>|<\/a>)/", $item, 0, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);  
      $my_links[$split[1]] = $item;
    }  
?>

Then when I'm at a point I want to print the read more link:

$rm = t('read more');
if ( isset($my_links[$rm])) {
  print $my_links[$rm]; 
  unset($my_links[$rm]); // delete so it won't appear elsewhere
}

The rest of the links can be printed with a foreach or:

  print implode($my_links, '|'); 

(You can combine this with http://drupal.org/node/16383)

CAVEAT: I've written this in the middle of the night (nearly 3am) and haven't thought of all the possible consequences nor tested it completely. One possible problem is that the remaining links are not always printed in the same order.
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In comment.tpl.php

<?php
if(isset($links)){
  $comment_links = explode(' | ', $links);  // note spaces around |
  foreach($comment_links as $item){
      $split = preg_split("/(<a.*>|<\/a>)/U", $item, 0, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
      $my_links[$split[0]] = $item;
  }
}
?>

This relies on no-one ever translating a link with a 'space|space' pattern.

Print the reply link:

<?php
  $rp = t('reply');
  if( isset($my_links[$rp])) {
    print $my_links[$rp]; 
    unset($my_links[$rp]); // delete from array
  }
?>

To print the rest of the links:

<?php
    if(isset($my_links)){
      print implode($my_links, ' | '); // note spaces around |
    }
?>

add markup where necessary...

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Hi,

Heines solutions used to work like a charm with previous versions of Drupal. However, now that I'm building a website with 5.1 it seems like things have changed... Does anyone know how the code can be changed so that it will work with 5.1 too?

Thanks!
Marc

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