I can apply a custom theme to a certain content type in Drupal by copying the node.tpl.php file and placing the name of my content type right after the "node" in the file name and appending an hyphen. Ok, the new name is: node-page_two_columns_images.tpl.php.
But that won't give me much flexibility if I am not able to edit the way each of the fields of my content type are rendered. If you get the node.tpl.php file, here is the line I am interested in:
<?php print $content ?>
I need to edit the way the elements in $content are rendered. Why? Basically because the title of the page needs to go between two of these elements... more or less like this:
<div id="field-1-of-my-content-type">[stuff1]</div>
<h1><?php print $title ?></h1>
<div id="field-2-of-my-content-type">[stuff2]</div>
Is there a template file I can create to replace the elements in this $content variable or do I need to write my own specific function?
Thank you!
check out the content template module.
Instead of using $content, you can print out all the elements yourself, as they are available in the node template. That way you can arrange the title and CCK they way you want to.
Update:
The easiest way to theme a node with CCK fields is to use $field_[field_name]_rendered, it has the themed version of the CCK field. CCK creates that variable to make theming the node easier.
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I am using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin with the options add on.How can I use the value of a field from options in a plugin?I have a simple php file in the plugins folder that needs to get this value. Is that possible?
For anyone searching for the solution:
Suppose your options field is a text field named "my_option_field_01".
In your php, if you wanted to display the value of that option field inside of a paragraph tag, you would put this:
<p><?php echo get_field('my_option_field_01', 'option'); ?></p>
I have a plugin that makes a custom content type and enables that custom content type to display its own archive pages. That is, this custom content type will display with archive-customtype.php rather than archive.php.
I don't want this, however. I want archive content to display in the same way whether it's a post or a new content type.
I can't just remove archive-customtype.php because the plugin expects it to be there. Can I remove everything from that file and simply say:
<?php include("archive.php"); ?>
That works but I want to make sure this is the best wordpress way to do it. Any thoughts?
I would use locate_template or get_template_part rather than include. You should be able to do get_template_part( 'archive' );-- note that there is not file-type ending.
It worries me that it doesn't work if you just remove archive-customtype.php. As you realize, archive.php should just work. It should be the fallback template. That the plugin requires this file is odd and makes me worry that something will break, or is broken and you haven't noticed.
I have a file called page--advertsindex.tpl.php.. Now what i want to do is display that page inside the content region of page.tpl.php..
page--advertsindex.tpl.php contains the HTML which need's to be rendered in the content region of page.tpl but what it does currently when i navigate to my_drupal_site/advertsindex it only show's the html of page--advertsindex, not the page.tpl.php file and the page--advertsindex in the content region..
How can i do this? or is there a different way to achieve my goal?
Any page--<identifier>.tpl.php will be used instead of page.tpl.php for the url /identifier. That is by design and the entire purpose of this system. This can be extended for deeper paths too: page--foo-bar-baz.tpl.php for /foo/bar/baz.
If you want certain content to appear on /identifier, you have two options: Conditionally include the content or copy the content. What to choose depends on your situation.
Conditionally include: inside page.tpl.php:
<div class="footer">
<?php if (arg(0) == "advertsindex"): ?>
<?php print theme("advertsindex_disclaimer"); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
Overrides: introduce a page--advertsindex.tpl.php:
<div id="content">
<?php print $content ?>
</div>
When to choose what:
Only use conditional includes or conditional rendering when:
The content to be included or excluded is small and shared. Patterns like `[large 20+ line of frontpage HTML][normal HTML] are very bad.
The content to be included needs all sorts of fancy new variables pulled in. Patterns like are really bad. Drupals theme system is push (theme gets variables from modules) and never pull (theme requests parameters at modules).
In all other cases you'd use the overrides. And yes, that will include a lot of duplication, but that is by design and accepted as the default practice in Drupal. To avoid having to modify some HTML in 20+ files, "split" or "copy" them as late as possible.
A rule of thumb is that a conditional should be a few lines only and never require variables that are not available in the parent.
If advertsindex is would be one of your content type then you have to create node--advertsindex.tpl.php file instead of page--advertsindex.tpl.php. Or If you wont to display some content in the page.tpl.php page, then it is better to copy all code of page.tpl.php into YOUR-Custom_page.tpl.php and put your code inside the content section of YOUR-Custom_page.tpl.php.
I think it helps.
I have a content type that is only used for scripts on my drupal site that should return json data. So the issue then becomes that I can't have any of the theming elements of the site in the output.
So I know I need blank (only the output variable) tpl files for the following:
html.tpl.php
page.tpl.php
region.tpl.php
block.tpl.php
field.tpl.php (the manual says this isn't used but its the only way I could find to remove field divs around the body of my page)
So my question is, how can I create all of the content specific files for this content type? I know its easy to do a theme override in template.php BUT I can only get it to work for html.tpl,page.tpl and thats it. Drupal seems to ignore any content specific functions from region down to field.
I noticed you tagged this drupal-7, which I haven't tried yet. But, in Drupal 6 I would accomplish this by adding a new page template to $vars['template_files'][] in the page preprocess function of template.php. Example:
$node_type = $vars['node']->type;
if ($node_type == '{your content type name here}') {
$vars['template_files'][] = "page-" . $node_type;
}
If your content type was called 'scripts', then Drupal will look for a page called page-scripts.tpl.php, which will contain only one line:
<?php print $content; ?>
I tried to display body content with:
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value']; ?>
However, it doesn't display all body content, it just display first paragraph of body content, sometimes 2 paragraph if it is short :/
I need to print all body. how can I do that?
Thanks a lot! Appreciate helps!
The shortened body content hints on it being filled/rendered for 'teaser' view instead of 'full'. In what context do you issue this print statement?
EDIT: The node templates are usually used for both, teaser and full output, but the decision on what to use, as well as the population of the content entries in the node object happen outside of the node template files. Within the node template file, the variable $teaser will be TRUE, if the node is to be shown as a teaser.
So you need to check in what context your node template gets called, as you'll have to configure that context to render the node as 'full'. This could be in many places, depending on who is responsible to provide the nodes you want to theme, e.g. if the node template gets called from a view, you'll need to configure the view to use 'full page' output, if it comes from a module, you'll need to check with the module settings, etc...
In node.tpl.php try
<?php print $content ?>
However,
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value']; ?>
works for me as well.
To get control over your teaser length the master value is set with Post Settings.
(Length of trimmed posts)
To control this by node type try: http://drupal.org/project/teaserbytype
NOTE: Teasers are cached so you'll need to http://drupal.org/project/retease
However, if you want to just get it done in the node template you could run a node_load() and have everything... but that's not the best practice.
FYI: you can control what CCK fields show up in $content under Display Options.
PS: In teaser mode I often make use of truncate_utf8().