By orbi on

hi,
I am trying to switch templates for different parts of my site. I put this in my template.php:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
  switch ($hook) {
    case 'page':
      if (arg(0)=="alias" && arg(1)=="myAlias"){
          $vars['template_file'] = 'mypagetemplate';
      }
      break;
  }
  return $vars;
}

That works fine - if my URL is "www.drupalsite.com/alias/myAlias". But I want to go with "www.drupalsite.com/myAlias". So I changed the above lines to:

      if (arg(0)=="myAlias"){
          $vars['template_file'] = 'mypagetemplate';
      }

But this doesn't work. What have I to change? Or is there another way to do this?

thanks
orbi

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Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Using arg(n) returns the un-aliased parts of the path so you would want to look for the unaliased version of the name

orbi’s picture

orbi commented

hi, I don't understand this. When I look for

      if (arg(0)=="alias" && arg(1)=="myAlias"){

then it works with "www.drupalsite.com/alias/myAlias". But "myAlias" is an alias also ...!
Is there no way to skip the "alias" part?

thanks
orbi

shanghaiguide’s picture

shanghaiguide commented

Seems like we're both trying to do the same thing ;)

I solved it by grabbing

$_REQUEST['q']

This returns the actual url after the http://www.somedomain.com/

eg

If its http://www.somedomain.com/country
$_REQUEST['q'] = country

If you have multiple url pieces - eg
http://www.somedomain.com/country/city

You can use explode

eg

$mypath = explode("/", $_REQUEST['q']);

$mypath[0] contains country
$mypath[1] contains city...

I'm using this and a custom page.tpl.php with a switch statement based on the path to make customized pages based on the menu path..
Each of my template pages has a bunch of php code to pull in queries and stuff populated from other nodes.

Hope that helps.

Of course, after the lightbulb went off in my head, I tried searching for explode and $_request, and found this node which says pretty much the same thing. Grrr :)

http://drupal.org/node/55433

Cheers,

Lawrence.
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orbi commented

Nice - I was close to giving up ;)

I will try it - thanks a lot!

g
orbi