The user-profile.tpl.php file won´t be recognized in my Drupal 7 installation

Question

I´ve created a file user-profile.tpl.php in a Drupal 7 installation. I´ve updated the site from Drupal 6. I have old core profile fields and I´ve installed the new profile2 module.

I´ve inserted that user-profile file into my theme folder and flushed cache. I want the profile to show all the core profile fields and the new profile 2 fields.

The thing is that it won´t show any field at all. It just shows the user picture.

After a lot of trying and error, I´ve tried deleting all the content inside user-profile.tpl.php file, and adding into it just "hello world". It won´t be printed out. And the profile picture is still there.

So, how do I get the file to be recognized? Should I set something at my template.tpl.php file?

Thanks for your help!!

Rosamunda

Answer 1

You could try adding your content in the user profile template preprocess function instead.

e.g, in template.php:

/**
 * Implements hook_preprocess_user_profile
 */
function THEMENAME_preprocess_user_profile(&$variables) {
  // Fetch relevant user account
  $account = $variables['elements']['#account'];
  // Add content to user profile render array
  $variables['user_profile'][] = array(
    '#type' => 'markup', 
    '#markup' => 'Hello world'
  );
}

After adding a new preprocess function, clear theme registry cache, e.g at Admin > Performance > Clear all caches

Answer 2

After adding content to user profile template preprocess function,to display it on user profile page, you need to render that content. I recently had the same issue. So I created the preprocess function inside my theme's template.php file as suggested by David Thomas and created a user-profile.tpl.php file (just copy the user-profile.tpl.php from User module) inside my theme's template folder and rendered whatever content I wanted to display. In your case it should be something like:

print render($user_profile['content_name']);

Hope that works for you!

Answer 3

It must be possible to print anything when you have properly reckognized user-profile.tpl.php.

In my case it works out of the box. If i delete content of whole file, and just type "test" in it, page shows only "test".

Try this: Make sure that your user-profile.tpl.php is in /templates sub directory, not in root of your template folder, otherwise it won't work!