By EmJay7 on

Hello all,

I have searched high and low on the Drupal Theming Guide for help with this, and I haven't been able to find an explicit answer - so I figured I would turn to the good people of the Drupal community for ideas.

Background:

I have one base theme that applies a very general layout to multiple sites. This theme has a page.tpl.php file and a template.php file that creates a few general variables I needed across all of my sites that will use this base theme.

I have multiple sub-themes that are based off of this base theme. The sub themes will inherit the page.tpl.php file from the base theme, and each of these sub-themes have site-specific CSS and such, but most everything is being pulled in from the base theme.

My Goal:

Alrighty, so here is what I am seemingly having problems doing. In my base theme's template.php file I create a handful of variables which I use in my base theme's page.tpl. However, on a couple (not all) of the subthemes, I want to edit said variables for the site-specifc themes. However, when I try to do that in the subtheme template.php file, the changes do not get applied to the inherited page.tpl.php file from the base theme.

I have tried multiple preprocess functions in the subtheme's template.php file, and multiple ways to implement the changes to the variables - but still nothing gets applied. I want to be able to edit these variables without having to create a new page.tpl.php file in my subthemes.

Any help, explanations, or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Emily

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Comments

goldhat’s picture

goldhat commented

Start by making sure your subtheme template.php file is being applied at all.

Try something like this just as a test:

//implement preprocess_page
function subtheme_preprocess_page(){	
  echo "<h1>"."Processing Working..."."</h1>";	
}

Make sure your using your subtheme name in your function names and that you cleared your cache.

EmJay7’s picture

EmJay7 commented

Clear the cache! *facepalm*
I have cache disabled when I do theme development, so I don't even think about clearing it.

Wonderful little newbie mistake there. Ah well, thank you very much.

-Emily