Custom block theme hook suggestion template file being ignored

By welly on 4 Dec 2014 at 07:51 UTC

Hi all,

I've created a preprocess_block function in my theme template.php file. Devel themer is showing the custom block suggestion and I've created a template file using that name. However, Drupal is simply ignoring the file entirely. I created a duplicate of block.tpl.php in my theme and yet Drupal seems to pick that up without a problem.

Is there any reason why this would be occurring? My code is as follows:

function mytheme_preprocess_block(&$variables) {
    $block = $variables['block'];
    if ($block->module == 'webform') {
        // kpr($variables);
        $delta = explode('-', $block->delta);
        foreach ($delta as $k => $v) {
            if (is_numeric($v)) {
                $wrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('node', $v);
                $machine_name = $wrapper->field_machine_name->value()['machine'];
                $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'block__webform_' . $machine_name;
            }
        }
    }
}

Thanks in advance,

welly

Comments

Have you cleared your cache?

Jaypan commented 5 December 2014 at 00:27

Have you cleared your cache?

welly commented 8 December 2014 at 23:08

Have you cleared your cache?

Many, many times.

What is the template file

Jaypan commented 9 December 2014 at 00:42

What is the template file name.

It was named block--webform

welly commented 10 December 2014 at 05:28

It was named block--webform-contact-us.tpl.php. See a screen capture below from devel_themer:

http://i.imgur.com/MNxpusB.png

The files block--webform-contact-us.tpl.php AND block--webform-client-block-113.tpl.php both exist in my theme, however block--webform-contact-us.tpl.php is ignored whether block--webform-client-block-113.tpl.php exists or not.

The following screen capture from devel_themer shows the candidate template files when I've removed the template file block--webform-client-block-113.tpl.php

http://i.imgur.com/c6rER5n.png

Note, both these files exist in my theme folder. This is just one instances of Drupal not recognising or ignoring template files. It has occurred with the Bean module also and a number of other modules I forget off hand. At first I would have thought the issue is due to an error with the module (webform in this case) but that it does occur in other modules makes me think it's a Drupal bug or perhaps there is a way around this problem?

Cheers,

welly

I also am having a similar

samwilson commented 5 December 2014 at 07:31

I also am having a similar issue. Clearing cache doesn't fix it. :(

Should the following enable the sites/all/modules/custom/modulename/page--node--custom-type.tpl.php file to be used for pages of type custom_type?

function modulename_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  if (!empty($variables['node']) && !empty($variables['node']->type)) {
    $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__node__' . $variables['node']->type;
  }
}