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I'm working on creating different themes in different pages of a site base on several conditions.

first, I want to create a page.tpl.php for all view pages in my site.

second, I want to have tiny specialization on it base on the filter criteria field's value or selected field's value in a page view. I mean different page.tpl.php based on fields value criteria.

I need to change the overall theme so it is not duplicate of is it possible to have one views-view--VIEWNAME--page.tpl for multiple views?

I need to know how to access field's value in my "function MYTHEME_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) ".

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Salam, You can do this using hook_preprocess_views_view(&$vars). Your code should be like this:

function YOURTHEME_OR_MODULE_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
    $view = $vars['view'];
    // the values of the view, filter criteria and the value of fields are in $view
    if(CONDITION1 == true)   
        $vars['theme_suggestion'] = 'views_view__custom_pages1'
    else if(CONDITION2 == true)   
        $vars['theme_suggestion'] = 'views_view__custom_pages2'
}

Then create files views_view__custom_pages1.tpl.php and views_view__custom_pages2.tpl.php and theme the view. In this way different themes are defined for the same view.

You also said I need to know how to access field's value in my "function MYTHEME_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) ", what variables do you need to find it's value?

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  • salam! :) does it override page.tpl.php or just the the area of the view? About fields' value I need to have different overridden page.tpl.php depend on the taxonomy ID in my Contextual filter.
    – shekoufeh
    Commented Jun 10, 2015 at 6:23
  • it effects the view's context. If you need to change the entire page.tpl.php use the above code in hook_preprocess_page and check for the value of the view. The above function is called before the hook_preprocess_page so you can set a static variable which it's value is the value of the view then use that variable in the hook_preprocess_page.
    – M a m a D
    Commented Jun 10, 2015 at 8:12
  • I try it but doesn't work. I do this in another way for now. thanks a lot anyway.
    – shekoufeh
    Commented Jun 14, 2015 at 8:16
  • You can also use context module
    – M a m a D
    Commented Jun 24, 2015 at 14:25
  • that's right but I don't like module base approaches. thanks
    – shekoufeh
    Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 4:03

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