How to hide/disable sidebars, footer, header etc for just one module?

By cafewebmaster on 1 May 2009 at 20:05 UTC

I need a module, which should send just its self output, also nothing from Drupal core or other modules. No header, no footer, no sidebars-blocks etc...

Example:
It must just print "Hello World", nothing else from header, footer, blocks etc

Let say I have a captcha module and I just want to print an image to screen also no-html code.

How can I do that?

Comments

Are you creating the module?

nevets commented 1 May 2009 at 20:32

Are you creating the module? If not what is the source of the output?

Yes, I want to create a

cafewebmaster commented 2 May 2009 at 12:38

Yes, I want to create a module which prints just "Hello World" nothing else. No output from any module or Drupal core.

You will need a module that implements hook_menu() and a callback function. See http://drupal.org/node/206753 for a tutorial on creating modules. You need to read at least 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9. 8 covers the callback function, 9 hook_menu (also talked about in 7).

To just print "Hello World" the one difference from the tutorial you want to implement is that in step 8 the callback function returns the output, you want your callback function to print the output.

I have already read module

cafewebmaster commented 2 May 2009 at 14:36

I have already read module docs and developed a hello_world module. The problem is I see left and right blocks and header-footer too. For example this module should print a demo javascript page, means just module content should transferred to browser nothing from blocks etc. I dont want to disable blocks or change template for whole site.

ie: I want to prevent that ..< html >< head >... appears twice on that page

<html>
<head>
... some js for test
</head>
<body>
... some demo code
</body>
</html>

there's no normal way to do

mm167 commented 2 May 2009 at 15:07

there's no normal way to do it ..but there are many hacker ways to do it ...

say ..follow the "site is off-line" way.

Make another "off line" module. Then u will have the only the output from your module but NOT from others (i.e. header, footer, sidebars..etc)

another option:
set the css style "display:none" to all you div u dont want to see.
But u may have to do it one by one for all div u dont want to see.

have a nice weekend.

What does your module look

nevets commented 2 May 2009 at 15:14

What does your module look like?

If I want to show users a

cafewebmaster commented 13 May 2009 at 13:03

If I want to show users a html-demo of a menu or any code etc, I cant do it with Drupal's node/add. It will be printed as $content, also subcontent of a Drupal page. But I want to print exactly what code you see in this menu, nothing else.

http://www.cafewebmaster.com/demo/css-menu/dropdown_web2_style.html

I know this thread is old,

stefan vaduva commented 14 January 2010 at 11:45

I know this thread is old, but in case anybody else needs this.

1. Create a file called page-node-simple.tpl.php and add the following code:

<?php 
  print $node->body 
?>

2. On your page.tpl.php add this above everything else:

<?php
//display a page without header, footer and regions
if ($_GET["format"] == "simple") {
  include ('page-node-simple.tpl.php');
  return;
}
?>

3. Create a new page and put your HTML in the body field (don't forget to select full HTML or PHP code as input format)

4. Access your newly created node with /node/[your node id]?format=simple

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Hi Stefan, Thanks very much

krystlel commented 25 January 2011 at 04:18

Hi Stefan,

Thanks very much for your quick and easy solution! I have just tried it and it works great. I really expected to have to create a whole new sub-theme, or add large amounts of code.

I am happy now. :) I'm glad you decided to post on the thread even though it's really old.

Thanks.

Thanks Stefan x2

tyler-durden commented 7 February 2012 at 17:46

Just thought I'd post this code has saved me from hours of coding and unneeded overhead. This was brilliant!

You can also achieve this

nevets commented 25 January 2011 at 05:23

You can also achieve this without code by using the display suite module which allows you to add any number of build modes and use them in both views and panels.

Problem in Drupal 7

himagarwal commented 28 June 2012 at 16:34

I am getting a page with just "Array" in Drupal 7.

Is there something wrong that I am doing?

I am now trying to apply this

tyler-durden commented 6 August 2013 at 02:09

I am now trying to apply this to D7 and it's working wonderfully, other than an error message on every page:
Notice: Undefined index: format in include() (line 3 of sites/all/themes/at_mono/templates/page.tpl.php).

The line this refers to is

if ($_GET["format"] == "simple") {

Does it need to be modified for D7, or does something else need to change? Thanks for any tips.

It's not a Drupal thing, it's

jaypan

Victoria, BC

commented 6 August 2013 at 02:14

It's not a Drupal thing, it's a PHP thing. You are checking if $_GET['format'] is equal to something, but $_GET['format'] doesn't exist in the first place, so it cannot be checked. This throws up a PHP warning, which is what you are seeing.

You can change it to this to get rid of the warning:

if (isset($_GET['format']) && $_GET["format"] == "simple") {

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.

not working

naitik commented 6 September 2013 at 11:52

I had execute your code nut it is not working
it show just "Array" print on page

In case you are creating a custom page.

jdjeet commented 8 June 2012 at 10:41

In case you are creating a custom page and want this to be loaded through ajax callback.

All you need to create a tpl file in your theme named page--UR_MENU_NAME.tpl.php
and write the html with required content only.
Normally you can have your page related data through $page variable.
like if you want to load only returned content of your custom page. just print $page['content']

clear the cache and reload the page. you are done.