theme node by id (node-1.tpl.php)

Posted by CoolCow on July 3, 2009 at 2:49pm

Hello everyone,

I want to theme a nodes by it's ID.
In other words i would like to create template files like node-1.tpl.php, node-2.tpl.php, ...

Trying to do this i defined the theme preprocess function like this:

<?php
function THEME_NAME_preprocess(&$variables, $hook) {
    switch($hook) {
        case 'node':
            $variables['template_files'][] = 'node-' . $variables['nid'];
        break;
    }
    return $variables;
}
?>

But this doesn't work.

I've been searching around in the theme.inc file to understand the steps drupal goes trough in choosing the template file.

The only thing i've found is that drupal only looks in the "modules/node" directory for that file and not in my theme directory.

Now my question is:
How can i tell drupal to look in the theme directory for that file?

Comments

This

Posted by nevets on July 3, 2009 at 2:59pm

This

$variables['template_files'][] = 'node-' . $variables['nid'];

should be

            $node = $variables['node'];
            $variables['template_files'][] = 'node-' . $node->nid;

Tried it, but doesn't make a

Posted by CoolCow on July 3, 2009 at 3:21pm

Tried it, but doesn't make a difference.

There are some errors in

Posted by adiatis on April 16, 2010 at 9:14am

There are some errors in variables. The following code works.

template.php:

<?php
function phptemplate_preprocess(&$vars, $hook) {
    switch ($hook){
        case 'node':
            $node_template = array_pop($vars['template_files']);
            $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-' . $vars['node']->nid;
            $vars['template_files'][]  = $node_template;
        break;
    }
    return $vars;
}
?>

...

Posted by Jeff Burnz on April 16, 2010 at 4:03pm

Just use the specific function - template_preprocess_node...

<?php
function themename_preprocess_node(&$vars, $hook) {
  $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->nid;
}
?>

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