[support] changing front page layout

[Jason Flatt]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 01:32 am, D_C wrote:
> hello -
>
> > In the modules download, find the frontpage.module for your particular
> > Drupal version. This will be able to do what you want.
>
> tx for the tip. there doesnt appear to be any "frontpage.module" or
> anything that looks like it. there is node block and page.module, but
> assme these are more general components.
> any other ideas what the frontpage.module might be called/under?

http://drupal.org/project/front

> i dont know how to tell the drupal version, but i think it was 4.6
> (3-4 months ago, with XML-RPC issues).

Look in the CHANGELOG.txt file in your Drupal installation's root directory.  
If it has "x.x.x, xxxx-xx-xx" as the version and date, then you have a 
pre-release version.

> also, if i were to modify, what is the "hook" i modify for page display?
> i dont want any of the rest of drupals page rendering mechanism to
> output to the screen/buffer...

The Front Page module is what you want.  Make sure you get the version that 
matches the version of Drupal you have installed.

http://drupal.org/node/16617/release

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