Make page.tpl.php and page--front.tpl.php share same html Is there a way to make page.tpl.php and page--front.tpl.php share the same template base?

If any of you are familiar with the Twig templating engine, You can define blocks with {% block content %}Node Content{% endblock %} and then do something like:

{% extends 'page.html.twig' %}
{% block content %}Home Page Stuff{% endblock %}


Does PHPTemplate have anything equivalent? I tried using PHP's include() but it doesn't work.
The theme system works by looking for templates that are a precise matches for the current path and then falling back to looking for less and less precise pages.

If you


delete your page--front.tpl.php 
clear the cache 


Then phptemplate should use page.tpl.php for your front page.