How to change template suggestion, and use a customized template?

I'm 95% sure that's not going to work and it has nothing to do with Author Pane. The core template suggestions, which is what you are invoking, works with themes, not modules. You need to put your template file in your theme.

Michelle

Try fiddling with hyphens vs underscores in both the file name and the template suggestion. I know that can be tricky. I don't know anything else right offhand. This is dealing with the core theme system and I haven't had my head in that in quite some time.

Michelle

Setting this active because I'm not sure what's going on here and why your theme isn't in the paths but I don't have time to dig into it now.

Michelle

Did you ever figure this out? I'm gearing up for a 2.1 release and trying to make sure I've got all the kinks out.

Michelle

Same problem here.

I've found some solutions:

1) The only file available to override is "author-pane.tpl.php" the other one is totally ignored (tested with Zen subtheme and Garland), probably you have some chances to add some template_files using a preprocess of _author_pane function.

2) I've just added this snippet to my zen subtheme:

/**
 * Implementation of HOOK_theme().
 */
function aquaknow_theme(&$existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
  $hooks = zen_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path);
  foreach ($existing as $key => $val) {
    $existing[$key]['theme paths'][] =  drupal_get_path('theme', 'aquaknow');
    $existing[$key]['theme paths'][] =  drupal_get_path('theme', 'aquaknow').'/templates';
  }
  return $hooks;
}

Forcing 'theme paths' to my template directory, permits to Drupal to use "advanced_profile_author-pane" as a template override file..

Probably is not enough this:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_preprocess_author_pane().
 *
 * Enables use of a custom template for Author Pane.
 *
 */
function advanced_profile_preprocess_author_pane(&$variables) {
  if (!empty($variables['caller']) && $variables['caller'] == 'advanced_profile') {
    // If we are calling the Author Pane, use our template.
    $variables['template_files'][] = 'advanced_profile_author-pane';
  }
}

Probably there is need to use hook_registry_alter() ?

Another solution, but i'm not so sure is this:

function advanced_profile_theme_registry_alter(&$registry) {
  $registry['author_pane']['theme paths'][] = path_to_theme();
}

hook_theme_registry_alter() is a strange beast, probably someone knows that better than me.

However this 3 lines permits to use 'advanced_profile_author-pane' as an override.

I just tested this and it works fine.

I put this in my "sitemods" module:

/**
 * Preprocesses template variables for the author pane.
 */
function sitemods_preprocess_author_pane(&$variables) {
  // Author pane is used in various places. The only way to be sure to only
  // hit it when we are using it is to check the template suggestion.
  if (!empty($variables['caller']) && $variables['caller'] == 'sitemods') {
    $variables['template_files'][] = "author-pane-custom";
  }
}

Added author-pane-custom.tpl.php to t the root of my theme.

Call it by:

$account = user_load(1);
print theme('author_pane', $account, 'sitemods'); 

Showed up just fine.

@paolomainardi: All that registry alter stuff is only needed if you are trying to store the template file in your module because Drupal won't look there for it. APK used to do that so I could just refer to the included AP template but I took that all out and just tell people to copy the template to their theme because it's a a lot simpler.

Michelle

Dear MIchelle,

Thanks a lot for your test.

I'm just using flat "advanced_profile" module and Garland theme and only copying "advanced_profile_author-pane.tpl.php" inside template folder not works.

It's simply ignored and i can override only "author_pane" template.

I just tested that as well and confirmed that works, too. Make sure you still have 'advanced_profile' in the AP content type settings in your user page variant. Other than that, I don't know what to tell you. It's working fine for me.

Michelle

Yes, it was the first thing i've checked and caller is correctly set to "advanced_profile", while the function is correctly called and template suggestions updated as well.

Seems that i've the same problem of @feredoc user and the only solution is altering 'theme paths' in order to be searched by Drupal.

I think there is a bug somewhere that cause this kind of problem, did never happen before ?

If you can find some way to reproduce the problem, let me know. Otherwise, I have no more ideas for you. It's working for me on 3 different dev/test sites as well as my live site, which is completely separate. It's also working for the other 7500 sites using APK unless they're being awfully quiet about it. So it sounds like something unique to your site is interfering and I have no idea what that might be.

Michelle

Thanks Michelle for your time and test.

I'll try to reproduce the bug, i will keep you updated.

Just wanted to add that you need to have both the author-pane.tpl.php and the advanced_profile_author-pane.tpl.php files in your theme directory in order to override the display. You can then modify the advanced profile author pane file and your changes should display after clearing cache. This is for 6x and will change for 7x.