Drupal 6 Custom content type page theme

Submitted by CoolGoose on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 21:01

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:

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

Thanks dvessel

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3 comments posted

Thank you!!

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

hhm... its not working for

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

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

This worked greart for me.

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

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

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