By jochenh on

Hi,

I am trying to override the default way that the print.module outputs its 'printer friendly version' link. Although I felt pretty familiar with theming, I am for some reason unable to get this to work right... Can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong...?

The module itself generates the following code: 

<?php
function theme_print_link($node) {

  $links = l(t('printer friendly version'), "node/$node->nid/print", array('title' => t('Display a printer friendly version of this page.')));

  return $links;
}
?>

So i figured, this can be overridden using template.php, so added this to my template.php file, assuming that my theme is called mythemename

<?php
function mythemename_item_list($items = array(), $node) {
  return _phptemplate_callback('print_link', array('items' => $node));
}
?>

So then i made a file called print_link.tpl.php in which i placed the below. the print_friendly DIV has red background in my style-sheet just for testing purposes.

<div class="print_friendly">
<?php print $links; ?>
</div>

For some reason I thought this was going to work but it doesn't seem to be generating any output... Am I missing something totally obvious here ?

Thanks
- Jochen

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Comments

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jochenh commented

Actually in the above it should be

<?php
function mythemename_print_link($items = array(), $node) {
  return _phptemplate_callback('print_link', array('items' => $node));
}
?>

and then the print_link.tpl.php should print out the $node variable, not $links...

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ckeo’s picture

ckeo commented

into your template.php file and customize it there.

like this:

  function theme_print_link($node) {
                            
      $links =  '<div class="print_friendly">' . $links . '</div>';

  return $links;
}

Craig.

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jochenh commented

this is all on a site that is on 4.6.5, i swear to god i thought i really understood this, and have actually implemented it where everything worked... but for some strange reason, no such luck here...

assuming i want to overwrite the separator between the $links (normally a pipe character => | )
so i get the theme function from theme.inc


function theme_links($links, $delimiter = ' | ') {
  return implode($delimiter, $links);
}

and then i throw that into template.php with a minor change (mythemename being the name of my theme)

function mythemname_theme_links($links, $delimiter = ' - ') {
  return implode($delimiter, $links);
}

and voila, it doesnt work...

any ideas ?

thanks!!!!!
- jochen

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