Thread: Template Switching for Topics...

Hello.
I've been reading a lot of posts in here regarding template switching and I have a few questions.

a. How do I get the topic name/page from skinbase.cs?
-taken from driver.aspxcs: String PN = CommonLogic.QueryStringCanBeDangerousContent("Topi cName");
doesn't work here since (I guess) its before the page even gets to 'prerender' or 'preinit' being SkinBase.cs
-upon adding a PreInit block to handle it, the skinbase.cs errors badly so that won't work

b. in driver.aspx.cs: I tried adding
Topic1.LoadTemplate("skins/Skin_1/templateMemberArea.ascx");
but it doesn't work (I assume the template is set before this page even begins loading in SkinBase.cs

So, how/where can I add something like:
xxx.LoadTemplate("skins/Skin_1/templateMemberArea.ascx");
to make a topic use a different template?

Here's what I did.
In App_Code/SkinBase.cs I modified GetTemplateName(): (look at !!!!!)

Code:

 private static string GetTemplateName()
        {
            string templateName = CommonLogic.QueryStringCanBeDangerousContent("template");
            //AppLogic.CheckForScriptTag(templateName);
            if (templateName == null || templateName.Length == 0)
            {
                // undocumented feature:
                templateName = AppLogic.AppConfig("Template" + CommonLogic.GetThisPageName(false));
            }
            if (templateName == null || templateName.Length == 0)
            {
                templateName = CommonLogic.IIF(AppLogic.ProductIsMLExpress() && !AppLogic.IsAdminSite, "expressTemplate", "template");
            }

           
            //!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
            String PN = CommonLogic.QueryStringCanBeDangerousContent("Topic");
            AppLogic.CheckForScriptTag(PN);
            if (PN.ToLower().Contains("guide")) //or anything you're looking for
            {
                templateName = "templatememberarea";
            }
            //Don't forget, There must be a corresponding templatememberarea.ascx (or whatever you want) template file in the ‘skins/Skin_1’ folder 
            //!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    

            if (templateName.Length > 0 && !templateName.EndsWith(".ascx", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
            {
                // undocumented feature:
                templateName += ".ascx";
            }

            return templateName;
        }