Hi,

Probably a basic question but...

Since I, according to the documentation and code examples, have to specify the template before I include the header..i.e.

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Is it possible to overide this later?
Why?
I would like to use different templates depending on what part of the code I'm running. I can solve this by having the template sort that out, but it would be quite convinient to be able to set the specific template when I decided what I need to do.
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or even just...
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Would that be a "supported" method?

Then wait with including header.php before you have determined the template.

Header.php basically initialize $xoopsTpl as a Smarty Template object, checks for cached pages and builds the blocks. If you provide a wrong template before including header.php, you risk the caching taking effect witht that template.

So as the first thing to do in a module page (after including mainfile.php naturally) is to figure out, which template is used - this may take function calls and other processing, but don't include header.php until this is done, and don't use the $xoopsTpl object until the header.php is included.

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