special testing pages

[diogo]

I need to make a change on a template while the pages are still being viewed by people.

i created a new test page and a new test template and copied the template file and called it "test.php". on this file i added on top

$page = $pages->get("name=original") 

and on header and footer, where i had things like

if($page->template == "original")

i had to change them to

if($page->template == "original" || $page->template == "test")

All works fine, of course, but i was thinking that maybe all this could be made easier with a module. Would be nice if, for instance, the system would recognize a specific URL parameter (site/page/super-secret-test-parameter), and look for the file "test_template.php" instead of "template.php". I don't have any idea of how to make a module like this that's why I'm posting it here.

[Pete]

I think you would have to have your-url/?test=1 or something like that, otherwise if you add it to the end it will look for that URL as a page first, unless you turn on URL segments for every page too.

I could be wrong though and it could be pretty simple as a module that runs before page render and intercepts the URL.

[diogo]

I think you would have to have your-url/?test=1

That's ok for me, the developer doesn't need pretty URLs