Question

I am working on a drupal 7 site and am very new to this. I need to create a totally separate home page from the rest of the site. I notice the head is built in the html.tpl.php file where all the scripts are loaded. I would rather not load scripts to the rest of the site that will only be used on the front page. Also I have found that drupal adds some code to the end of my script rendering it useless.

/js/image_scale.js?lwhgie”

What is going on here and how do get better control of this?
Thanks

Answer 1

Just to add a couple of points:

If you want to aggregate your homepage JS (which you may or may not) then you shouldn’t add the stylesheets manually to the template file. You can add them in hook_preprocess_page(), something like this:

/**
 * Implements hook_preprocess_page().
 */
function MYMODULE_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  if ($vars['is_front']) {
    $path = drupal_get_path('module', 'MYMODULE');
    drupal_add_js($path . '/MYMODULE1.js');
    drupal_add_js($path . '/MYMODULE2.js');
    $vars['scripts'] = drupal_get_js();
  }
}

Also I have found that drupal adds some code to the end of my script rendering it useless.

/js/image_scale.js?lwhgie”

That shouldn’t render your script useless. From the comments in drupal_get_js():

A dummy query-string is added to filenames, to gain control over
browser-caching. The string changes on every update or full cache
flush, forcing browsers to load a new copy of the files, as the
URL changed. Files that should not be cached (see drupal_add_js())
get time() as query-string instead, to enforce reload on every
page request.