[development] how template suggestion inherits default header&footer of page.tpl.php

[Wang Zi Feng]

hi tim and michael,

After some investigation, I found an way from different angle to resolve my
problem.

write phptemplate_preprocess_page function in template.php to build a global
header variable which utilize a global_header function. Then you can simply
print the global_header variable in any page.tpl.php file.


function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$variables){

$variables['global_header']=global_header()

}

function global_header(){

return "Global Header Here";

}

Wang

2010/1/7 Michael Favia <michael.favia at gmail.com>

> What Tim is describing at the end of his message might be  alittle
> confusing but is VERY essential. The page template suggestions and
> indeed all template suggestions use "original paths" (e.g. node/15)
> and not path aliases (news/my-name-is). This makes using them with out
> specific template suggestions (on node type, etc) in the preprocess
> function almost useless in most of my cases.
>
> Tim is also right in alluding to the node.tpl.php template files
> which, by default DO load conditionally on node type. If you are just
> looking to modify the node display contents look here. If you need to
> modify contents outside this page then youll have to live with a
> little code duplication in page template or conditionally include the
> header and footer sections as includes(). Good luck, -mf
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:02 AM, T L <tloud365 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Wang,
> >
> > What kind of content are you trying to customize?  If it's a node, you
> can
> > do something like node-my_node_type.tpl.php.  This would change the theme
> > around the various node types, but use a common page.tpl.php file to
> supply
> > the header, menu, footer, etc.
> >
> > You can override all of the *.tpl.php files like block, page, comment,
> etc
> > in slightly different ways.  Which is generally, I think, how you would
> do
> > something like this dependent on the kind of content you want to theme.
> As
> > a specific example, you can just create page-news.tpl.php for a unique
> > ?q=news theme.  (There's a gotcha though, so just make sure it's the
> > original path, you will need to adjust if you use path aliasing like
> > path_auto.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tim
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Wang Zi Feng <frank.zifeng at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There is a rookie question.
> >>
> >> I use template_preprocess_page function in a module to specify a
> template
> >> file (news.tpl.php) based on the hook_menu path (?q=news), utilizing the
> >> news.tpl.php every time click on ?q=news, it works fine.
> >>
> >> But I have to copy the footer&header from page.tpl.php to the new
> template
> >> file (news.tpl.php) to print them, I wonder if there is an approach to
> >> inherit automatically the footer and header section?
> >>
> >> here is the code
> >>
> >> function news_menu(){
> >>      $items['news'] = array(
> >>         'title' => 'News',
> >>         'page callback' => 'news_page_default',
> >>         'access callback'=>TRUE,
> >>         'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
> >>         );
> >>
> >>      return $items;
> >> }
> >>
> >> function template_preprocess_page(&$variables){
> >>
> >>     if(drupal_strtolower(arg(0))=='news'){
> >>     $variables['template_file']='news' ;
> >>     }
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Wang
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tim Loudon
> > (781) 686-6096
> >
>
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