By Joat on

I'm making two sites at the moment, and with each I struggle with the same problem. I have been through theme developers quide and php snippets, but haven't find an answer yet. Here's the problem:

I need to make a page where I serve flexinode-1 to provide the body of the page (the basic information). Then I need 3 other flexinodes (flexinode-2, flexinode-3 and flexinode-4) of different types to display additional information. The additional flexinodes should be selected by user id of the flexinode-1. I also have the "slots" in the flexinode-1.tpl.php for the other flexinodes to display. So far I have achieved showing flexinode-1 and flexinode-2 at the end of the code of flexinode-1.tpl.php. If I place flexinode-2 on the middle or at the beginning of the template, it looses all the original info for the flexinode-1 after the flexinode-2 has been read.

The problem seems to be in the way I try to achieve this. The template uses php-snippet to get the info from another flexinode (display (x) full flexinodes), and I have tried to use $output=""; after and before the snippet.

Is there a way to do this nicely? Say by making a template that holds the relevant data and just instructs the "slots" to display one flexinode of each type where uid=uid of currently shown flexinode?

The flexinodes are not ment to be shown in any other context.

Any help and pointers would be greatly, warmly and wholeheartedly appreciated.

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Joat commented

For the others with the same problem, the solution (at least some sort of) lies on adjusting the way you think about it. Instead of using node-flexinode-x.tpl.php to style the whole page, try making a page that collects the different nodetypes and dispalys it as a total. I found my answer from here: http://drupal.org/node/20630

I will try and make a page that shows 4 flexinodes in a table and at where I want them. Wish all of you the best of luck making the sites the way you want them.