How do you set up a page to use a different template in Zotonic?

Question

I would like to have alternative templates for each section of my website.

How do you set up a page to use a different template in Zotonic?

Answer 1

Hi Alain,

Here is how you could render the about page with a custom template:

{about,      ["about"], resource_page, [ {template, "about.tpl"}, {id, page_about}]}

If you add the above dispatch rule to your site's dispatch rules (found at yoursite/dispatch/dispatch) it will render a page with the unique name of page_about using about.tpl.

You can set the unique name for a page in the advanced tab of the page in the zotonic admin.

Answer 2

Good practice is to set the page_path property to the url you define in the dispatch rule. So that the page_url of the (in the example) page_about is also "/about".