Print $Messages in node.tpl.php file

Question

In Drupal 7, by default the $messages variable is printed in page.tpl.php.

Is there a way to print $messages in a node.tpl.php file (e.g. $node-mycontenttype.tpl.php).

Just putting <?php print $messages; ?> or <?php print render($page['messages']); ?> does not work.

There's a tutorial here for printing $messages in a block, but I would like to put it in my node.tpl.php file.

Answer 1

Actually, what you want to do is this:

function YOURTHEME_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  // This disables message-printing on ALL page displays
  $variables['show_messages'] = FALSE;
}

function YOURTHEME_preprocess_node(&$variables) {
  $variables['messages'] = theme('status_messages');
}

How this works: Drupal core checks the value of show_messages in theme_process_page. If it is TRUE (default) then it calls theme('status_messages') as above, and effectively empties the messages storage, so calling the same theme function later will just return an empty string. However, if we set that variable to FALSE, this prevents said theme function from being called in process_page, allowing us to get all the messages using the same theme function, in a template of our choosing.

Answer 2

The answer in How to display messages from a block separately from $messages in page.tpl.php which you referenced in your question is a fine way to go. Essentially you need something like this where YOURTHEME is the name of your theme and this function should be in your template.php. I haven't actually run this code but have a crack at it.

function YOURTHEME_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
  $output = '';
  foreach (drupal_get_messages(NULL, FALSE) as $type => $messages) {
    $output .= "<div class=\"messages $type\">\n";
    if (count($messages) > 1) {
      $output .= " <ul>\n";
      foreach ($messages as $message) {
        $output .= '  <li>' . $message . "</li>\n";
      }
      $output .= " </ul>\n";
    }
    else {
      $output .= $messages[0];
    }
    $output .= "</div>\n";
  }

  $vars['messages'] = $output;
}

You should then be able to output $messages in your node.tpl.php