I don't know that it's the Right Way or the Best Way, but I have used template_preprocess_region() to add content to an empty region from template.php. <div><br></div><div>hope that helps,</div><div>-Benj</div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Jeff Greenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:listmail.ayendesigns@gmail.com" target="_blank">listmail.ayendesigns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was asking a slightly different question in the themes list, but I've narrowed down my issue, and believe it's more of a support question than a theme development question.<div>
<br></div><div>I am trying to add content to a region from within template.php. The region has no content prior to doing this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have tried drupal_add_region_content() from template_preprocess_page, template_preprocess_html and template_preprocess_region.</div><div><br></div><div>I've also tried just making an assignment to $vars[page][my_region][my_section_name][content][#markup] from the same functions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nothing results in output. Do I have to do it using hook_page_build from a module?</div>
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