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I am looking for simple way to include footer.tpl.php that is just html block into another template like page.tpl.php. In Grails/Groovy that is as simple as 

<g:render template="side_menu"/>

Is there a same simple way(preferred no use any panels, custom modules, etc) in Drupal? Thank You

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The way to include another .tpl.php file is the include function.

Another idea is to add your footer as a region in the page.tpl.php and assign a region wise theme as defined in Drupal 7 Template (Theme Hook) Suggestions

region--[region].tpl.php The region template is used when a page region has content, either from the Block system or a function like hook_page_build(). Possible region names are determined by the > theme's .info file.

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Thank you Nikhil. Per your suggestions, i created region such as 'footer', put the block code into block--footer.tpl.php file. Afterwards, rendered it within any template by "print render($page['footer'])" – latvian May 12 at 14:22
Well..there is a problem with "render($page['footer'])". Drupal only calls for 'block--footer.tpl.php' region template if there is a block assigned to this region from the admin portal. – latvian May 12 at 15:33
I end up using include as follows: <?php include './'. path_to_theme() .'/templates/block--footer.tpl.php';?> – latvian May 12 at 15:34
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If your drupal site do not call for region--[region].tpl.php file, then check your template.php file and find preprocess_region function:

/**
 * Override or insert variables into the region templates.
 *
 * @param $variables
 *   An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
 * @param $hook
 *   The name of the template being rendered ("region" in this case.)
 */

function YOURTHEME_preprocess_region(&$variables, $hook) {
  // add theme suggestions for blockgroup region
  if (strpos($variables['region'],'blockgroup') === 0) {
    $region_name = str_replace(array(' ','-'), '_', $variables['region']);
    $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'region__'.$region_name;
  }
}

* This function should be there. If not, just place it.

In your region--footer.tpl.php file:

/**
 * @file
 * theme implementation to display a region footer
 * variables:
 * - $content: The content for this region, typically blocks.
 * - $classes: String of classes that can be used to style contextually through CSS
 * - $region: The name of the region variable as defined in the theme's .info file.
 * - $classes_array: Array of html class attribute values. It is flattened into a string within the variable $classes.
 * - $is_admin: Flags true when the current user is an administrator.
 * - $is_front: Flags true when presented in the front page.
 * - $logged_in: Flags true when the current user is a logged-in member.
 */
?>

<?php if ($content): ?>
  <div class="your_region_class">

      <?php print $content; ?>

  </div><!-- /.region -->
<?php endif; ?>

* read comments

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Jack, you are right the preprocessor method is missing in template.php. I will come try this out at later time as i have move forward with the 'include'. Thank You – latvian May 13 at 12:41
You're welcome. I'm glad I could help. – Jack-PL May 13 at 13:06

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