How *not* to use admin theme for user edit page?

By Hubert_r on 22 Aug 2011 at 20:23 UTC

Hi there,

Does anyone know how to tell Drupal 7 *not* to use the admin theme for the user edit page?

Specifically, what I m trying to do is to have the default theme when a user edits his own profile, and the admin theme when editing someone else's profile (which typically would be done by an administrator from the admin/people section).

I've tried using hook_custom_theme, which works fine when I tested it for regular pages, but for some reason is ignored when I'm on the user edit page.

function mymodule_custom_theme() {
	global $user;
	// if we're on the user edit page
	if (arg(0) == 'user' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && arg(2) == 'edit') {
		// if the user is editing his own profile
		if (arg(1) == $user->uid) {
			return 'my-default-theme';
		}
		// if editing someone else's profile
		else {
			return variable_get('admin_theme');
		}
	}
	return;
}

Thanks a lot for any suggestions!

Comments

Did you ever get a solution

rogueturnip commented 30 August 2011 at 22:38

Did you ever get a solution to this? I've just run into it also.

You may implement the

lucor commented 14 September 2011 at 22:23

You may implement the hook_admin_paths_alter hook

function YOUR_MODULE_admin_paths_alter(&$paths) {
    // Treat all user pages as not administrative.
    $paths['user/*'] = FALSE;
}

Hope this helps.

Thanks, @lucor - very

michaellenahan commented 30 May 2012 at 11:32

Thanks, @lucor - very helpful.

thx for your sollution!

Frederic wbase commented 24 September 2012 at 22:52

thx for your sollution!

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Thanks for sharing, lucor

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commented 5 April 2017 at 16:01

Thanks for sharing, lucor
Works great!

Thanks!

Webteam.su commented 27 July 2017 at 02:42

Thanks!

Did this work on Drupal 8.x?

DashDesai commented 29 January 2018 at 16:33

Hi Webteam.su,

Going by the time of your comment, I am guessing you have tried Lucor's solution on Drupal 8. I am trying to do the same with Drupal 8.4.4 but it does not seem to work. The API reference pages also don't seem to list hook_admin_paths_alter as a valid hook.

Is there a different way to achieve this in Drupal 8?