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If you do this (see below), it is very simple to make a separate TPL for a single page. based on the Alias.. This is a very minimal addition, but gives a great freedom with designing. I now have a page.[pagealias].tpl which i can use to design one single page :)

require_once $cfg['system_dir'] . '/header.php';

$mskin = sed_skinfile(array('page', $pag['page_alias'], $sed_cat[$pag['page_cat']]['tpl']));
$t = new XTemplate($mskin);

Hope this will help someone.. By the way it can be found in page.inc.php line 161 (around)

I like your idea. Especially for 'system' pages this will be useful. Using page_text to insert the HTML is very dirty, inefficient and limited, so the addition of custom tpl files for individual pages is welcome.

Your implementation won't work (correctly), because it will break category tpl files. cot_tplfile will look for a template file matching page.myalias.mycategory.tpl, will probably fail, try page.myalias.tpl, maybe fail and finally return page.tpl. It will never look for page.mycategory.tpl anymore. You need an alternative approach. Try this:

if ($pag['page_alias'])
{
	$alskin = cot_tplfile(array('page', 'al-'.$pag['page_alias']));
	if (!strpos($alskin, 'page.al-'.$pag['page_alias'])) $alskin = '';
}
$mskin = ($alskin) ? $alskin : cot_tplfile(array('page', $cat['tpl']));
$t = new XTemplate($mskin);

Note that this is Siena code, not Genoa like yours, so you'll need to adapt it a little. I've also added the prefix al- to the filename to avoid confusion with category tpl files.

Thanks you all, it was a very fast idea..., and yes i do know that the code will break down, and that it was not perfect.... But this was all about the idea, and that came through, so mission accomplished (for my part). Now just the correct code is needed, but that can be developped fast i think....

nice nice