By gtothab on

Hey,

I'm theming this site and I need a way to have the pages of a certain node type as well as the node creation pages of the same node type display differently than the rest of the site. How do I go about creating custom tpl files for these pages. What I need is not node.tpl files but rather the more granular control afforded by page.tpl files. I'm thinking I would need something like this: page-node_node_type.tpl AND page-node_node_type_add.tpl. How do I achieve this?

Thanks a bunch!

G

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marcvangend
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See this page and its comments: http://drupal.org/node/223440#comment-1045201

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gtothab commented

Hey thanks a bunch that worked for the node pages. Any idea how to tweak that code to get something for the node ADD page for that content type? (page-node-my_node_type.tpl.php affects the node's pages as well as the node's edit pages but not the node's creation page)

This is the code I tried adding to my template.php file:

function signupmate_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  if ($variables['node']->type == "event") {
    $variables['template_files'][] = 'page-node-event';
  }
  if ($variables['node']->type == "event" && arg(1) =='add') {
$variables['template_files'][] = 'page-node-event-add';
}
}

The first if statement is working and allows for the page-node-my_node_type.tpl file. The second is supposed to allow for the add page of that same node type but it dosent work. What do i have wrong?

Appreciate it!

G

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marcvangend
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I assume that it does not work because there is no node loaded on the node-add form. After all, the node still needs to be created, so how could Drupal load the node object into $variables['node'] ?

Fortunately, the node add page always has the same url, so there must already be a template suggestion for it, following the rules on the page I sent you earlier.

Don't delete the second if-statement completely though; you will probably need a similar rule for the node/123/edit url's. When you change 'add' to 'edit' in the second part, you will probably have the edit pages covered.

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gtothab commented

Thanks again. I got it.

For all who want a way to theme the node creation page of a certain node type the tpl file name should be: page-node-add-my_node_type_name.tpl.php (I had been trying page-node-my_node_type_name-add.tpl.php to no avail!)

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marcvangend
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You're welcome. One last tip: if you need to figure out how something was themes and what the template suggestions are, try the devel module and its theme inspector.

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rahulbile commented

thanks all. This information was helpful.

Cheers