By John Carbone on

I've used the Features module to create a feature and I'm trying to add a tpl file to that feature but I can't get Drupal to recognize it. The feature is basically a cck content type and some imagecache settings. Normally I could add a tpl to the the site 's enabled theme folder and it would work fine, but I'm trying to create a bunch of features that can easily be used on any site with any theme. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

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John Carbone commented

Figures. After searching for hours, reading articles and general head scratching, I finally came across this http://hddigitalworks.com/theming-cck-content-type which includes a section called "theming from a module" about 10 minutes after posting this topic. In case anyone else ends up wondering the same thing, here's how I did it.

After creating my tpl and adding it to my module's folder, I opened my MYMODULE.module file and added the following: 

function MYMODULE_theme_registry_alter(&$theme_registry) {
  $my_path = drupal_get_path('module', 'MYMODULE');
  $hooks = array('node');  // you can do this to any number of template theme hooks
  // insert our module
  foreach ($hooks as $h) {
    _MYMODULE_insert_after_first_element($theme_registry[$h]['theme paths'], $my_path);
  }
}
 
function _MYMODULE_insert_after_first_element(&$a, $element) {
  $first_element = array_shift($a);
  array_unshift($a, $first_element, $element);
}

After flushing the site's caches to rebuild the theme registry, my tpl.php was finally being called by the Feature. Sweet!

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