By Craventree on

Hi everyone,

i am pretty new to Drupal and trying to set up my 'first' site with Drupal 5.0. Now i have come to one use case i dont know how to implement with Drupal.

The site consists of 2 main parts:

  1. Community Part
  2. Knowledge Base (Structured Informations on Topics decided by the Maintainer)

The requirement is that both parts are differently styled/themed.
For example the community part should have the navigation block on the left, the knowledge base on the right.
Is there some way to accomplish that? Perhaps with the distinction of taxanomy terms (i have practically no experience with that yet) or node types.

At the moment i would set up 2 sites with shared user tables and same code base. That the users would have to login to both sites would be a little annoying, but acceptable. Another problem would be, that search request would work only on one site at a time. This approach would of course not be good if there are more cases with more styles/themes.

If something like that is not implemented yet, but you see a way to tweak Drupal, please share your ideas. Perhaps i can realize it or help implementing it.

Thank you for any help you can give :)

Craventree

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.carey commented

http://drupal.org/node/46027

I have various sections on my site tricked out with taxonomy and custom node types (coping either the page or story module) and then use the following (examples) to setup for a different theme and format for each one (the "news" one is for a views page):

if ($node->type == 'store') {/* check if it's a storepage node */
    include 'page-store.tpl.php'; /*load page-storepage.tpl.php */
    return; }

if ($node->type == 'article') { /* check if it's an article page */
    include 'page-article.tpl.php'; /*load a page-article.tpl.php */
    return; }

if (arg(0)=="news") {/* check if it's the news 'view' page */
    include 'page-news.tpl.php'; /*load a custom page-xxx.tpl.php */
    return; }

if (arg(0)=="taxonomy" && arg(1)=="term" && arg(2)=="39") {/* is /taxonomy/term/term# */
   include 'page-section.tpl.php'; /*load a custom page-xxx.tpl.php */
   return; }

I considered the sections module but I found it had a bug that prevented sidebar blocks from working properly. But the above solution works even better for me, I think, as I can customize the page layout, moving sidebars or eliminating one.

Hope this at least gives you some ideas.

Carey

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Craventree commented

This is exactly what i needed :)