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Drupal 6 Custom content type page theme

Submitted by CoolGoose on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 21:01
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If you ever wondered how to change the page.tpl.php for a custom content type you've found out that by default Drupal 6 doesn't know how to do it.

It's "fixed" easily by adding the following code:

  1. /**
  2.  * Override or insert PHPTemplate variables into the templates.
  3.  */
  4. function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  5.   // Add per content type pages
  6.   if (isset($vars['node'])) {
  7.     // Add template naming suggestion. It should alway use hyphens.
  8.     // If node type is "custom_news", it will pickup "page-custom-news.tpl.php".
  9.     $vars['template_files'][] = 'page-'. str_replace('_', '-', $vars['node']->type);
  10.   }
  11. }

Thanks dvessel

Thank you!!

Submitted by David Livingstone (not verified) on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 18:34.

Thank you!!

hhm... its not working for

Submitted by vsotto (not verified) on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 23:11.

hhm... its not working for me. i have a content type 'affiliate' and wanted to call a template 'page-node-affiliate.tpl.php' base on node type('affiliate').

i only received a blank page...

please help...

thanks,

vsotto

This worked greart for me.

Submitted by John Larysz on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 02:36.

This worked greart for me. I've been looking for hours!

Thank you thank you thank

Submitted by Lisa (not verified) on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 11:09.

Thank you thank you thank you! What an elegant and slim solution, just what I needed!

many thanks

Submitted by insfilo (not verified) on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 22:29.

many thanks

Don't forget to Clear Cache!

Submitted by Cool QoSyS (not verified) on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 13:38.

Don't forget to Clear Cache!

Thank you so much, I have

Submitted by Marc (not verified) on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 19:02.

Thank you so much, I have been trying to solve this problem for hours now!

Cheers!

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