Stop inheriting header, footer,... from index.template.php in Themes/default?

[themavesite]

Templates in /Themes/default inherit most of their html from index.template.php
Now I want one page to look totally different than the forum. How do I stop a template from inheriting from index.template.php, so I can add a header and footer myself in the template file itself?

I already created the page and everything in the main_section already is styled the way I want, problem is that the header and footer and some other stuff still gets imported from index.template.php, how do I stop this behaviour for one specific template?

[Arantor]

With difficulty but it is possible.

You create new _above and _below functions and replace $context['template_layers'] to point at the new layers.

[themavesite]

With difficulty but it is possible.

You create new _above and _below functions and replace $context['template_layers'] to point at the new layers.

Thank you for your reply, the only thing that isn't clear to me is what you mean with $context['template_layers']

link in TMS.php

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loadTemplate('TMS');

The TMS template file:

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function template_main()
{
global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $scripturl;
echo '
<div id="tms_recent" class="main_section">
<div class="cat_bar">
<h3 class="catbg">
<span class="ie6_header floatleft"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/post/rt.png" alt="" class="icon" />The Most Recent Topics (limited to 100)</span>
</h3>
</div>';
foreach ($context['posts'] as $post)
{
echo '
<div class="', $post['alternate'] == 0 ? 'windowbg' : 'windowbg2', ' core_posts">
<span class="topslice"><span></span></span>
<div class="content">
<div class="topic_details">
<h5>', $post['subject'], '</h5><!--was link-->
<span class="smalltext">Posted <em> ', $post['time'];
echo'
</div>
<div class="list_posts">', $post['message'], '</div>
</div>
<span class="botslice clear"><span></span></span>
</div>';
}
echo '
<div class="pagesection">
<span>', $txt['pages'], ': ', $context['page_index'], '</span>
</div>
</div>';
}
?>

As you can see there are no template links besides the "TMS" one, yet it automatically uses the above and below templates in index.template.php

[Arantor]

$context['template_layers'] is what controls which header and footer code to call.

In a Curve based theme, this is set to a list of two items, 'html' and 'body' which means it will run template_html_above, template_body_above, then the main part of the content, then template_body_below, then template_html_below. If you want to change the header footer templates for just one page or area, this is what you change.

[themavesite]

$context['template_layers'] is what controls which header and footer code to call.

In a Curve based theme, this is set to a list of two items, 'html' and 'body' which means it will run template_html_above, template_body_above, then the main part of the content, then template_body_below, then template_html_below. If you want to change the header footer templates for just one page or area, this is what you change.

I'm almost with you.. I think.

Instead of

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loadTemplate('TMS');, I should call them all manually and then point to new above and below templates?
Something like this?:

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$context['template_html_above'] ;
$context['template_body_above'];
$context['TMS'];
$context['template_body_below'];
$context['template_html_below'] ;

Sadly this doesn't work

I have created the new functions, they're all called template_html_above/below/html_TMS
Only thing I don't know is how to call these instead of default ones

[Arantor]

No, not at all.

The stock code, effectively, says:

$context['template_layers'] = array('html', 'body'):
$context['sub_template'] = 'my_template';

This, when it actually runs templates, then runs:
template_html_above();
template_body_above();
template_my_template();
template_body_below();
template_html_below();

Where the loadTemplate call is what makes sure template_my_template or whatever it is called is defined. The rest come from index.template.php which is loaded very early on.