By s.w.coughlan on

I've created three custom regions in my .info file:

regions[left-links] = Left Links
regions[centre-video] = Centre Video
regions[right-news] = Right News

I've inserted the correct code into the div's that I want to make into regions:

<?php if ($right-news): ?>
<?php print $right-news ?>
<?php endif; ?>

blah blah... you get the idea! The problem is that when I assign a block to any of these three regions, nothing happens. I have a sneaking suspicion this may have something to do with the fact that I'm using a page-front.tpl.php file, this is where the regions are defined.

When regions are defined in .info, are they only defined for page.tpl.php?

If so is there anything I can do to get these 3 regions to work? Hair pulling is about to commence...

Comments

michaels-musings.com’s picture

michaels-musings.com commented

Hi Steve,

I was just doing something similar, did you add a preprocess_node function to your template.php file as well as the above?

For a (hopefully) complete custom region write-up for D6, See:

http://drupal.org/node/208869#comment-2370828

Hope that helps,
Michael

s.w.coughlan’s picture

s.w.coughlan commented

Michael... thanks for the quick response.

I did try adding the following to my template.php file

function phptemplate_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
  $vars[$region] = theme('blocks', 'left-links');
  $vars[$region] = theme('blocks', 'centre-video');
  $vars[$region] = theme('blocks', 'right-news');
}

I found it in the forum somewhere and hoped it might work. It didn't. I've just read over your write-up, do u think this would work for my issue? Or would I need to make adjustments seeing as I'm not trying to define a region in node.tpl.php but in page-front.tpl.php?

I'm a designer at heart... all this code gives me headaches!

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

The names should not use dashes (-) since that is not a legal character in a php variable.

s.w.coughlan’s picture

s.w.coughlan commented

BOOM! That did the trick...

Thank you nevets.... and thank you Michael. Much appreciated.