doc/todo/Allow_per-page_template_selection.mdwn



It'd be nice to be able to specify an altenate template file to be
used for some pages. For example, I'd like most of my pages to use
page.tmpl but I want my front page to be formatted in some unique way,
so I'd like it to use a separate front.tmp template instead.
I'm not sure what syntax to use for this, ([[template]] seems to be
taken for another purpose already). Perhaps something like
[[page-template front]] ?).
Joey provided a nice suggestion for implementing this feature, ("I
would probably add a hook that allowed overriding the default template
constuction and returning a template object"). I did start looking
into that, but finally I wimped out and just put the following hack
into the genpage() function in Render.pm:
if ($page eq 'index') {
	$template->param(suppresstitle => 1);
}

That lets me use a <TMPL_UNLESS SUPPRESSTITLE> in my template to get
the effect I want. I don't think that's anything that upstream should
pick-up as is, (maybe with an appropriate configuration option, but
then again allowing for per-page template selection would be more
powerful anyway). But I'm happy enough now that I probably won't
pursue implementing this feature further myself.
But I'd still happily switch to using this feature if someone were to
implement it.