By sethstevenson on

I've seen this done in every version but 7.x.

I was thinking I could make a template for just my article nodes using "page-article.tpl.php" or "page--article.tple.php" but neither seems to work.

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LaurentAjdnik’s picture

LaurentAjdnik commented

Try using __ (double underscore) instead of - or -- and let me know.

See http://drupal.org/node/224333#theme_hook_suggestions_2.

sethstevenson’s picture

sethstevenson commented

That seems on the right track but that is specific to node template files which I can currently do with something like "node--article.tpl.php". However I would like to also use a different page template for different content types like "page--article.tpl.php".

sethstevenson’s picture

sethstevenson commented

I ended up getting it to work with this

if (isset ($vars['node'])) {
		$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'] = array();
		$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__'.$vars['node']->type;
	}

My main mistake was that in the documentation (http://drupal.org/node/224333#theme_hook_suggestions_2) they reference "$node->type" rather than "$vars['node']->type". Of course the name "$vars" is relative to your template_preprocess_page function.

LaurentAjdnik’s picture

LaurentAjdnik commented

All's well that ends well, as Shakespeare would say ;c)

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Jeff Burnz commented

I updated the docs, since theres no variable assignment it really should be $variables['node']->type; in those docs (the example assumed $node = $variables['node']->type;).

http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7#theme_hook_suggestions_2

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stiknoltz’s picture

stiknoltz commented

Thanks to everyone for your help here, came across this looking for a solution to this very issue and the above code solved when applied to template_preprocess_page, however I came across one caveat. Resetting 'theme_hook_suggestions' like this: 

$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'] = array();

Can wipe out already existing suggestions [for example page--front.tpl.php]

Perhaps a check to see if the key already exists and is an array would be more prudent: 

if (isset ($vars['node'])) {
    if (!is_array($vars['theme_hook_suggestions'])) {
        $vars['theme_hook_suggestions'] = array();
    }
    $vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__'.$vars['node']->type;
}
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ideogram_nl commented

Do I notice correctyly that in the template function we have to use underscore's, whilst in the actual file name we should use dashes?!

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Yes.

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