[support] Same node, multiple places

[Larry Garfield]

That would work for changing the theme, as would the $suggestions array, but 
it wouldn't do anything for a node "existing" at two different paths.  That's 
the tricky part.

On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Andrew Hankinson wrote:
> Create a hook in your template.php file:
>
> function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
>   $path = $vars['node']->path;
>   switch($hook) {
>      case 'page':
>           if($path = '/one/of/your/paths') {
>                 $vars['template_file'] = 'page-difffile';
>            }
>   }
>   return $vars;
> }
>
> This will specify a page template ('page-diffile.tpl.php') for a specific
> path.  You can use any number of operators in the 'if' statement to test
> for various levels of truth (i.e. use a strstr to see if the path contains
> a substring, and return a template for all paths below that.)
>
> -Andrew
>
> On 10/16/07, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks.  I'm trying to figure out the cleanest way to set this up.
> >
> > I have a site that is actually kinda sorta 2 sites.  It doesn't make
> > sense to make it a multi-site, really, but it needs to give the
> > impression of multiple sites, visually.
> >
> > For the most part that's easy; just base the template file off of the
> > path for the sub-site.  (/ and /journal in my case).  However, the client
> > wants news items (news nodes) to appear on both "sites", with each one
> > having its own visual appearance.  That is, at /news/$nid it uses the
> > main site template, while at /journal/news/$nid it uses the sub-site's
> > template.
> >
> > Is there a good way to do that?
> >
> > So far my best guess is to use something like Panels 2 to create a panel
> > at each location that has only one pane, which is the node specified by
> > an argument.  Of course, I haven't actually worked with Panels 2 yet,
> > just seen Earl's demos, so I'm not sure if that's actually a reasonable
> > plan.  Is there some better way?
> >
> > (This site will be built on Drupal 6; it's just in planning stages now,
> > so I want to figure out what I'll be doing in 3 months to build it. <g>)
> >
> > --Larry Garfield
> >
> > --
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