[development] Take Over Page Output from Module

Matt Chapman matt at ninjitsuweb.com
Fri Jul 9 00:01:45 UTC 2010


Ah ha. In that case, there's nothing to take over. Just print your
output and return nothing from your page callback. See:

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/page_example_foo/6

All the Best,

Matt Chapman




On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Adam B. Ross <grayside at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid not. I'm looking to take complete control over the output
> of a menu path I have already defined in hook_menu(). I want behavior
> similar to what happens when you click the link to print a book, and
> you get a print-styled, alternate version of a book and all it's
> children.
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Matt Chapman <matt at ninjitsuweb.com> wrote:
>> Are you looking for hook_menu_alter() ?
>>
>> All the Best,
>>
>> Matt Chapman
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Adam B. Ross <grayside at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The Print module, Book module's export functionality, the s5 module,
>>> they all have this trick of taking over the entire page output for
>>> their own theme function.
>>>
>>> I am building a module that is headed toward a more generic mechanism
>>> for funneling content through a pluggable template, but despite
>>> pouring over the code I can't see the magical place where all other
>>> Drupal markup is dropped in favor of the HTML document described in my
>>> own template file.
>>>
>>> What's the trick?
>>>
>>> I have a menu callback along the lines of "present/%node" and it leads
>>> to an export function that returns my theme function, which is a
>>> template outputting a complete HTML document.
>>>
>>
>


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