[development] Take Over Page Output from Module

Chris Skene chris at xtfer.com
Fri Jul 9 00:02:34 UTC 2010


I think you are probably interested in template suggestions.

Try reading up in overriding themeable output...

http://drupal.org/node/223440

On 09/07/2010, at 9:55 AM, Adam B. Ross 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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