By pruner on

is it possible to customize the "Submitted by" line for different types of nodes?

for instance, I would like forum topics to say "Posted by..." since users can post them without approval; and book pages to say "Submitted by..." since they go into the queue.

I've been hacking my way through the Xtemplate theme, so far to no avail.

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ti’s picture

ti commented

You might find this thread helpful.

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pruner commented

that thread only deals with hiding the "Submitted by" line for a particular node type... not customizing it for different types.

Stefan Nagtegaal’s picture

Stefan Nagtegaal commented

Change the following lines inside xtemplate.theme under function xtemplate_node():
$xtemplate->template->assign(array(
"submitted" => t("Submitted by %a on %b.",
array("%a" => format_name($node),
"%b" => format_date($node->created))),

switch ($node->type) {
case 'page':
$xtemplate->template->assign(array(
"submitted" => t("Submitted by %a on %b.",
array("%a" => format_name($node),
"%b" => format_date($node->created)))));
break;
case 'story':
case 'blog':
case 'forum':
$xtemplate->template->assign(array(
"submitted" => t("Posted by %a on %b.",
array("%a" => format_name($node),
"%b" => format_date($node->created)))));
break;
}

This is untested, but i'm pretty sure this should work...

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pruner commented

it caused a parse error.

what did work is adding the lines you suggested:

switch ($node->type) {
   case 'page':
    $xtemplate->template->assign(array(
        "submitted" => t("Submitted by %a on %b.",
        array("%a" => format_name($node),
        "%b" => format_date($node->created)))));
   break;
   case 'story':
   case 'blog':
   case 'forum':
     $xtemplate->template->assign(array(
        "submitted" => t("Posted by %a on %b.",
        array("%a" => format_name($node),
        "%b" => format_date($node->created)))));
     break;
 }

just below this:

$xtemplate->template->assign(array(
         "submitted" => t("Submitted by %a on %b.",
                       array("%a" => format_name($node),
                             "%b" => format_date($node->created))),
       "link"      => url("node/view/$node->nid"),
        "title"     => $node->title,
        "author"    => format_name($node),
        "date"      => format_date($node->created),
        "static"    => ($main && $node->static) ? 'static' : '',
        "content"   => ($main && $node->teaser) ? $node->teaser : $node->body));

above this:

if ($page == 0) {
    $xtemplate->template->parse("node.title");
  }

thanks for your help. :-)