Random Musings About Software

In some Drupal Themes there is support for displaying the "Mission Statement" across all pages and in others this support is limited to the "Front Page" or "Main Page".

If you are ever using one of the themes with limited mission statement support and want to display the mission statement across all pages you can use this to do so.

In template.php add the following to the bottom of the file:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
// Make custom variables available to theme templates
switch ($hook) {
// Send new variable $custom_mission to page.tpl.php
case 'page':
$vars['custom_mission'] = variable_get('site_mission', '');
break;
}
return $vars;
}


Then in page.tpl.php change:

<?php if ($mission) { ?><?php print $mission ?><?php } ?>
to be

<?php if ($custom_mission) { ?><?php print $custom_mission ?><?php } ?>

These 2 changes should allow the "Mission Statement" to be displayed across all pages.

I've moved all the content off of http://fusion94.org/blog and have imported here into the Damage Studios site. It was getting tiring trying to determine where to blog and since the old site was running WordPress and I'm now doing more Drupal related work it made sense to move it into Drupal. Thanks to PathAuto and aliasing about 98% of the old urls redirect properly.

I know that there are some things not quite right but I hope to resolve these issues in the next week or so.