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Posted by jredding on October 28, 2006 at 8:59am

Quick question...

I have a PHP Page that outputs XML but its theming it within PHPTemplate.

So.. umm. .how do I prevent ALL theme output?

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easy

Posted by moshe weitzman on October 28, 2006 at 12:58pm
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don't call theme('page'). just print your output and then return empty string or NULL (i can't recall) from your menu callback

Thanks but...

Posted by jredding on October 28, 2006 at 3:38pm
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Wouldn't this require altering my theme so that theme('page') isn't called? Is it possible to do this if you are using a standard Page node and selecting PHP Code as the input format?
i.e.
create content-->Page
Type in php code
Select Input Format "PHP Code"

Hit Submit?

Or do I need to create a CCK Type named something like "PHP Code Feeds", then create a template file content-php_code_feeds.tpl.php and prevent the theme('page') call from the template file?

Now that I think of it.. I don't think this is possible.. Drat! but... maybe???

-Jacob Redding

-Jacob Redding

Hacks

Posted by Anonymous on October 31, 2006 at 11:24pm
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I've hit this before. Here are some not-pretty hacks; I've used both of these:

(1) Set the headers yourself using php, e.g.,:

<?php
header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
print "<?xml blah blah blah
?>
"; //I do this so the <? isn't interpretted as php
?>
the rest of your XML here
<?php
exit;
?>

(2) Set up a vocabulary for "special themes." In your template.php, check the taxonomy term for "XML output" and short-circuit the normal themeing and just dump the body wrapped in the appropriate whatever...

That was me... Sorry about

Posted by strudeau on October 31, 2006 at 11:26pm
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That was me...

Sorry about the code formatting. WTF? Anyway, should be readable.

I should also say that if

Posted by strudeau on November 1, 2006 at 3:51pm
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I should also say that if you take the "set the headers and exit" approach, I highly recommend adding some kind of wrapper around it to make sure you can access the node when logged in as admin. I've done this one of two ways:

(1) Check to see if the user is in an "admin" (or other) role and if so, do not actually dump the output (this requires you to use a different browser or log out to test)

(2) Look for a $_GET variable and only intercept headers when this variable is set; fix links accordingly

What about CCK types?

Posted by jredding on November 2, 2006 at 5:23am
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Instead of setting up a taxonomy could I use a CCK Type and check for the type?

Also maybe I'm tired or overworked but how exactly do I check for this with template.php? What function do I override?

-Jacob Redding

-Jacob Redding