[development] Take Over Page Output from Module

[Adam B. Ross]

I feel as though I must have tried it. But it worked like a charm. I
owe you a beer.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Matt Chapman <matt at ninjitsuweb.com> wrote:
> Ah ha. In that case, there's nothing to take over. Just print your
> output and return nothing from your page callback. See:
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> http://api.drupal.org/api/function/page_example_foo/6
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> All the Best,
>
> Matt Chapman
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> 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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