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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".