Try to theme a specific page using template.php and a sub theme

Question

I have a theme called 'progressive'. It has a sub theme called 'progressive_sub'.

I'm trying to exclude items from being displayed from a particular page in D7 (latest as of 12.2.15).

I have the following useful files:

/sites/all/themes/progressive/progressive_sub/template.php

This contains:

<?php

/**
 * Implements hook_preprocess_page().
 */
function progressive_sub_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  $path = request_path();

  if ($path = 'node/131') {
    unset($variables['page']['header']);
    unset($variables['page']['sidebar']);
    unset($variables['page']['footer']);
    unset($variables['page']['bottom']);
    unset($variables['page']['top']);
    unset($variables['page']['content_top']);
    unset($variables['page']['sidebar']);
    unset($variables['page']['bottom']);
    unset($variables['page']['footer']);
    $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page';
  }
}

You can see that I'm trying to remove a heap of regions from this page (page.tpl.php) template, in this case when /node/131 is called.

I also have:

/sites/all/themes/progressive/progressive_sub/templates/page.tpl.php

which has all the usual including:

<?php print render($page['content']); ?>

My problem is that I cannot get this page.tpl.php to load when I'm viewing /node/131

Is there something that I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Wy don't you just create a template with this name:

page--node--131.tpl

and then, rather than removing regions in your template_preprocess_page function, just do not print them in your new template.

A few other things:

In some cases where order matters you may consider adding the suggestion to the beginning of the array using array_unshift.

Making use of request_path() is not the best way to get the path. It returns the request url, which may or may not be the internal path (think aliases). Better to use menu_get_object.

Answer 2

This

if ($path = 'node/131')

should surely be

if ($path == 'node/131')

Nevertheless this should not affect use of page.tpl.php.

Is your subtheme working at all, do templates get loaded from subtheme at all?

Your path is /sites/all/themes/progressive/progressive_sub. Does that mean the parent theme is at /sites/all/themes/progressive? If so, maybe try to give the subtheme a separate folder.