[development] Themes and Modules

[Earl Miles]

Peter Hartman wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'm working on a module which wants to squash a lot of things in
> page.tpl.php, e.g., the Edit / View / Outline / Etc tabs, the links at
> the bottom, the help button; and it wants to override the way
> breadcrumbs and title are handled.  The only way I've found to do this
> is to adjust page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php with some logic like (if
> $node->type == 'mymodule').  However, this strikes me as not the best
> way (in the long haul) to do things, since it would require shipping a
> page.tpl.php file with the module for other people to use, or
> including a patch for the tpl.php files in the INSTALL.txt file, both
> of which seem like
> bad solutions.
> 
> Is there a way for a module to overwrite tpl.php things without
> recourse to having people installing the module to edit their theme
> files?

It sounds to me like you're really developing a theme more than a module.

Unfortunately, themes are at a level that modules can't really do anything about.