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nav: blog
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title: Dividing Drupal's process and preprocess functions into separate files
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description: If you use a lot of process and preprocess functions within your Drupal theme, then your template.php can get very long and it can become difficult to find a certain piece of code. Following the example of the Omega theme, I've started separating my process and preprocess functions into their own files.
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slug: dividing-drupals-process-and-preprocess-functions-separate-files
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tags:
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- drupal
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- code
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- theming
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- preprocessing
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---
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{% block excerpt %}
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If you use a lot of process and preprocess functions within your Drupal theme, then your template.php can get very long and it can become difficult to find a certain piece of code.
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Following the example of the [Omega theme](http://drupal.org/project/omega "The Omega theme on Drupal.org"), I've started separating my process and preprocess functions into their own files. For example, mytheme_preprocess_node can be placed within a preprocess/node.inc file, and mytheme_process_page can be placed within process/page.inc.
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{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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If you use a lot of process and preprocess functions within your Drupal theme, then your template.php can get very long and it can become difficult to find a certain piece of code. Following the example of the [Omega theme](http://drupal.org/project/omega "The Omega theme on Drupal.org"), I've started separating my process and preprocess functions into their own files. For example, mytheme_preprocess_node can be placed within a preprocess/node.inc file, and mytheme_process_page can be placed within process/page.inc.
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The first step is to use the default mytheme_process() and mytheme_preprocess() functions to utilise my custom function. So within my template.php file:
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~~~php
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<?php
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/**
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* Implements hook_preprocess().
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*
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* Initialises the mytheme_invoke() function for the preprocess hook.
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*/
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function mytheme_preprocess(&$variables, $hook) {
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mytheme_invoke('preprocess', $hook, $variables);
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}
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/**
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* Implements hook_process().
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*
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* Initialises the mytheme_invoke() function for the process hook.
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*/
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function mytheme_process(&$variables, $hook) {
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mytheme_invoke('process', $hook, $variables);
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}
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~~~
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Now, to write the `mytheme_invoke()` function:
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~~~php
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<?php
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/**
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* Invokes custom process and preprocess functions.
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*
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* @param string $type
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* The type of function we are trying to include (i.e. process or preprocess).
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*
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* @param array $variables
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* The variables array.
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*
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* @param string $hook
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* The name of the hook.
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*
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* @see mytheme_preprocess()
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* @see mytheme_process()
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*/
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function mytheme_invoke($type, $hook, &$variables) {
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global $theme_key;
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// The name of the function to look for (e.g. mytheme_process_node).
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$function = $theme_key . '_' . $type . '_' . $hook;
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// If the function doesn't exist within template.php, look for the
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// appropriate include file.
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if (!function_exists($function)) {
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// The file to search for (e.g. process/node.inc).
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$file = drupal_get_path('theme', $theme_key) . '/' . $type . '/' . $type . '-' . str_replace('_', '-', $hook) . '.inc';
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// If the file exists, include it.
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if (is_file($file)) {
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include($file);
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}
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}
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// Try to call the function again.
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if (function_exists($function)) {
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$function($variables);
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}
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}
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~~~
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As `mytheme_invoke()` checks to see if the function already exists before searching for checking the include files, I could still add the functions into template.php as normal and this would override any corresponding include file.
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{% endblock %}
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