Render node without theme from a module (no theme editing) - drupal

I have a module that is being used to create only a few page nodes (done in .install). That's working fine. The problem is that these nodes contain xml, json, jsonp content, so I want to be able to render them without the theme, no header, no footer, no styling, just node->content.
This module is going to be shared with several other Drupal sites so I can't do this with theme development, I don't want anyone to have to create or modify templates.
Is there a way to do this using a hook from within the module, the .module? Basically detect the node title or node alias (or something) and then prevent the theme from rendering and only render the content. I'll know the titles and aliases of the nodes because I'm creating them in the .install.
I would also like to modify the headers to correctly to say tell whats being returned is xml, json, etc.
Thanks in advance.

Normally, I'd go about this another way. I'd define the content through hook_menu() menu router items rather than as node content, as it's rarely intended to be directly user-editable. If there is a lot of processing, you can separate it from the .module and include it as a file for each item.
/**
* Implementation of hook_menu().
*/
function MODULE_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['example/json'] = array(
'title' => 'JSON example',
'page callback' => '_MODULE_json',
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
$items['example/xml'] = array(
'title' => 'XML example',
'page callback' => '_MODULE_xml',
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
return $items;
}
/**
* JSON example.
*/
function _MODULE_json($string = '') {
$data = array();
$data['something'] = 0;
$data['anotherthing'] = 1;
drupal_json($data);
}
/**
* XML example. No idea if this actually produces valid XML,
* but you get the idea.
*/
function _MODULE_xml($string = '') {
$data = array();
$data['different'] = 2;
$data['evenmore'] = 3;
// Build XML
$output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n";
$output .= "<data>\n";
$output .= format_xml_elements($data);
$output .= "</data>\n";
// We are returning XML, so tell the browser.
drupal_set_header('Content-Type: application/xml');
echo $output;
}

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Drupal - using views_embed_view with an external Drupal site

I have two Drupal sites hosted on different servers. In the main they need to operate separately however site1 has one specific content type which I'd like to show in a list on site2.
I can't simply use feeds to import as the original has to remain and if edited, the changes be instantly reflected on both sites. Site2 has no requirement to edit the content - only show it.
The content is already being presented in a list on site1. The list was created using views.
My intention was to call the view on site2 using the following code in a custom module.
function site2_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['content-from-site1'] = array(
'title' => 'Content from Site1',
'page callback' => 'site_two_list',
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
);
return $items;
}
function site2_list() {
db_set_active('site1');
$content = views_embed_view('articles', 'default');
db_set_active('default');
return $content;
}
site1 DB is defined in the settings.php file.
However this isn't returning any data. Using the same approach on Site1 (without switching DBs) works fine.
Was I being over-optimistic in hoping this approach would work or am I missing something obvious?
If this isn't likely to work, what would the alternative be? I can do my own SQL query, but I'd prefer to use views for built in arguments, pagination, templates, etc.
Thanks.
I've not been able to use views_embed_view, however I have been able to use views_get_view to retrieve everything I need and iterate over the results myself. It's a very close second.
function site2_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['content-from-site1'] = array(
'title' => 'Content from Site1',
'page callback' => 'theme_site2_list',
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
);
return $items;
}
function site2_theme() {
return array (
'site2_list_page' => array(
'arguments' => array('content' => NULL),
'template' => 'templates/site2-list-page'
)
);
}
function theme_site2_list() {
db_set_active('site1');
$view = views_get_view('articles');
$view->base_database = "site1";
$view->init_display();
$view->pre_execute();
$view->execute();
db_set_active('default');
foreach ($view->result as $key => $data) {
$content[$key]['nid'] => $data->nid;
$content[$key]['title'] => $data->node_title;
$content[$key]['body'] => $data->field_body;
$content[$key]['image'] => $data->field_field_image;
}
return theme('site2_list_page', array('content' => $content));
}
Then in site2-list-page.tpl.php I can use the $content array to do what I need. It's not quite as clean as a simple views_embed_view, but it's a close second and allows the content from one site to be pulled to another fairly easily.

Drupal 6 how do page-customnamehere.tpl.php work

I'm working with a drupal 6.26 install. I can see file names like page-2011-custom-landing-page.tpl.php in the theme directory I'm using.
From what I understand, I should be able to see this template at http://www.mydomain.com/2011-custom-landing-page however I just get a 'page not found' message at that address. What's going on?
If you see a file name as 'page-2011-custom-landing-page.tpl.php' in you theme folder it means that there is a template file named 'page-2011-custom-landing-page.tpl.php' using for a page. That page may be defined in one of your custom module.
Like this:
<?php
/**
* Implements hook_menu().
*/
function custommodulename_menu() {
$items['pathname'] = array(
'title' => 'title',
'page callback' => 'custommodulename_pagename',
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
return $items;
}
/**
* Implements hook_theme().
* Adds our theme specificiations to the Theme Registry.
*/
function custommodulename_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
$items = array();
$items['custommodulename_pagename_page'] = array(
'render element' => 'form',
'template' => 'page-2011-custom-landing-page', //name of file(template) to be created,here create page-2011-custom-landing-page.tpl.php in the custom module folder
);
return $items;
}
/**
* Callback function(menu)
*/
function custommodulename_pagename(){
return theme('custommodulename_pagename_page');
}
?>
page-2011-custom-landing-page is not a url, it is a template name. You can see the content inside the template my accessing the menu callback that using that template. (here it is : http://yoursite.com/pathname)
Reference : http://www.developerdoc.com/answer/add-template-menu-call-back

simple example form in drupal 7 with everything configured correctly shows "Page not found"..Why..?

I have installed drupal 7 and have been trying to create a custom form. The below code which am trying has been taken from http://drupal.org/node/717722 and I have not made any changes except for .info file.
here is the my_module.info
name = My module
description = Module for form api tutorial
core = 7.x
Below is the my_module.module
<?php
/**
* This function defines the URL to the page created etc.
* See http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_menu/6
*/
function my_module_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['my_module/form'] = array(
'title' => t('My form'),
'page callback' => 'my_module_form',
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
'description' => t('My form'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
return $items;
}
/**
* This function gets called in the browser address bar for:
* "http://yourhost/my_module/form" or
* "http://yourhost/?q=my_module/form". It will generate
* a page with this form on it.
*/
function my_module_form() {
// This form calls the form builder function via the
// drupal_get_form() function which takes the name of this form builder
// function as an argument. It returns the results to display the form.
return drupal_get_form('my_module_my_form');
}
/**
* This function is called the "form builder". It builds the form.
* Notice, it takes one argument, the $form_state
*/
function my_module_my_form($form_state) {
// This is the first form element. It's a textfield with a label, "Name"
$form['name'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('Name'),
);
return $form;
}
?>
I have placed these two files in a *my_module* folder and placed it in sites/all/modules
After that, I enabled the module from the modules page without any errors or warnings.
Now, when I try to access this for using the url, localhost/d7/?q=my_module/form
I get a "Page not found " error..!! Why..?? What am I missing..?
Its not only for this module but also for this examples for developers module http://drupal.org/project/examples. It shows the same error.
You should write:
$items['my_module']
Where my_module is module name.
And you need to create page-my_module_my_form.tpl.php file at
sites/all/theme/your_theme/template/page-my_module_my_form.tpl.php
and in this file add code like this:
<?php
if (isset($form['submission_info']) || isset($form['navigation'])) {
print drupal_render($form['navigation']);
print drupal_render($form['submission_info']);
}
print drupal_render($form['submitted']);
?>
<?php print drupal_render_children($form); ?>
and try to run with
localhost/d7/my_module
I hope this will be useful to you
I know this is late, but I do believe that you need to have the $form variable passed into your form, like so : function my_module_my_form($form_state, $form)... That way you actually have a form variable to house your form data.

Use node-menu on page

I would like to use the node-menu (see image) on a page in Drupal.
Is this possible and, if yes, how?
If the page you are referring is a custom page output from your module, and "mymodule/page" is the path for that page, for which you want the tabs "View" and "Edit," then you should implement hook_menu() using code similar to the following one:
function mymodule_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['mymodule/page'] = array(
'page callback' => 'mymodule_page_view',
'access arguments' => array('view mymodule page'),
);
$items['mymodule/page/view'] = array(
'title' => 'View',
'type' => MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK,
'weight' => -10,
);
$items['mymodule/page/edit'] = array(
'title' => 'Edit',
'page callback' => 'mymodule_page_edit',
'access arguments' => array('edit mymodule page'),
'weight' => 0,
'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
);
return $items;
}
If the page you are referring is a page that is shown at example.com/mymodule/page, and that should show what you see at example.com/node/7, then you can implement the following code, in Drupal 7:
function mymodule_url_inbound_alter(&$path, $original_path, $path_language) {
if (preg_match('|^mymodule/page|', $path)) {
$path = 'node/7';
}
}
The equivalent for Drupal 6 is writing the following code in the settings.php file:
function custom_url_rewrite_inbound(&$result, $path, $path_language) {
if (preg_match('|^mymodule/page|', $path)) {
$result = 'node/7';
}
}
I didn't write the symmetric code for hook_url_outbound_alter(), and custom_url_rewrite_outbound() as I suppose you are not interested in rewriting example.com/node/7 to make it appear as example.com/mymodule/page, but you are interested in making appear example.com/mymodule/page the same as example.com/node/7.
Okay; a node page usually has those View and Edit tabs. So my next question is to wonder why they aren't appearing on your node page already. Have you by chance created a custom page template for this node type and removed the code that prints the tabs? Or is there a chance you're logged in as a user that doesn't have permission to edit this type of node?
There must be a reason why you're not getting those tabs; they should be there, by default.
If you do have a custom page template for this node type, look for code that looks something like this:
<?php if ($tabs): ?>
<div class="tabs"><?php print $tabs; ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>
If you don't see code like that, try adding it.
If you DO see code like that, try to isolate what's different about this content type compared to other content types where you DO see those tabs.

Drupal: Passing custom variable from custom module to my template

I realize this question has been asked, but I either simply don't understand or the previous answers don't apply (or I don't understand how to apply them) to my circumstance. Here goes:
I have a custom module named:
"my_module" in /sites/all/modules/custom/my_module
I have a module file:
/sites/all/modules/custom/my_module/my_module.module
I have a page template name "page-mypage" which is NOT in my module:
/sites/all/themes/mytheme/pages/page-mypath-mypage.tpl.php
I made the hook menu for this:
$items['mypath/mypage'] = array(
'title' => 'My Page!',
'page callback' => 'my_module_mypage',
'page arguments' => array(1,2),
'access callback' => true,
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
In the function, I build up some content like so:
function my_module_mypage($x, $y) {
$output = "foo AND bar!";
return $output;
}
In the template (again, NOT in my module folder, but in the THEME subfolder "pages", I have:
<?php print $content ?>
When I go to http://mysite/mypath/mypage I get "foo AND bar!"
Now for the question. I want a new variable, defined in my_module_mypage(), called '$moar_content'. I want to output $moar_content in my page-mypath-mypage.tpl.php. I only need to do this for this module and for this template. I do not need it theme-wide, so I don't think using mytheme's 'template.php' is appropriate.
I think I need to use some kind of preprocessing, but everything I try fails, and everything I read seems to be missing some kind of magic ingredient.
My thinking was:
function my_module_preprocess_page_mypath_mypage(&$variables) {
$variables['moar_content'] = 'OATMEAL';
}
or
function my_module_preprocess_my_module_mypage(&$variables) {
$variables['moar_content'] = 'OATMEAL';
}
or something. I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track, but I'm hitting a brick wall.
To do the job, you must follow Drupal's best practices, supposing you are using D6, so you can insert some variables to your template like this :
// You menu path is good
$items['mypath/mypage'] = array(
'title' => 'My Page!',
'page callback' => 'my_module_mypage',
'page arguments' => array(1,2),
'access callback' => true,
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
Second thing, we define the theme hook for our page
// We define here a new theme file for your your page
// Your theme file must be located in your module's folder
// you can use a subfolder to group all your module's theme files
// E.g : themes/my-module-theme.tpl.php
// Note that in theme files, we change _ by -
function my_module_theme() {
return array(
'my_module_theme' => array( // Keep that name in your mind
'template' => 'my_module_theme',
'arguments' => array(
'my_var' => NULL,
'my_var2' => NULL,
),
)
);
}
Now we can create a file "my-module-theme.tpl.php" in the root folder of our module, and paste something like "foo AND bar!"
Back to our my_module.module, the callback must be something like :
function my_module_mypage($x, $y) {
// $x and $y are optionnal, so this is the first manner
// to inject variables into your theme's file
$output = theme("my_module_theme", $x, $y);
return $output;
}
Also you can use preprocess hook to insert variables
// The hook must be named like this : template_preprocess_NAME_OF_THEME_FILE
// where NAME_OF_THEME_FILE is the name that you kept in your mind ;)
function template_preprocess_my_module_theme(&$variables) {
// Do some job
$var1 = 'Foobar';
// So in "my-module-theme.tpl.php", $my_var1 will print Foobar
$variables['my_var1'] = $var1;
}

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