Question

I’ve created a new content type called Homepage, which has a number of fields. The fields are node references to the Single Image Promo content type. Single Promo Box has fields for title, text and image. The idea is that I can create multiple copies of a Single Promo Box, each with different field values. I then want to place a few of them on the homepage.

So I can place a specific Single Image Promo on the homepage fine now. But what template file do I need to create to style the way Single Image Promo is shown when it’s a node reference on the homepage?

Thanks,
Maria

Answer 1

It sounds like you are over complicating things.

If you want to create some different boxes on your homepage, using node reference is not the right way to go about this. There are some few different ways to do what you want, the easiest i probably to create a block view of the node you want to display. When you turn a node into a block, you get the ability to place it in any of your theme’s defined regions.

You could also just create a view and from there get the different Single Image Promo you want without using node reference at all. Views has a lot of different filters, which will enable to you create a view that always displays the right nodes. This solution wont work well, if you want to place the nodes in different regions though.

To answer your question, when nodes are being displayed, they will by default be rendered with the node.tpl.php template file. To make specific templates for each of your node types, you can create a new template named node-nodetype.tpl.php, where nodetype is what you called the node type when you created it.