Modal Bootstrap in page.tpl.php Have been struggling with view and modal to display related node content for a few days, but in vain. 

In view, a page is to display / list only thumbnail images (Display Suite) with rewritten link to trigger the modal with data-target. Then bootstrap modal code is placed in page.tpl.php. 

So on view page, on click the thumbnail, the modal shows up. The problem is how to display title, body and images? Tried &lt;?php print $node-&gt;title; ?&gt; but when refreshing the view page, it shows blank page. 

Is it not possible to display related node content of the thumbnail on modal?

Have tried Bootstrap modal and JQuery Ajax Load but they don't work at all. Documentation isn't clear either. 

Help very much appreciated
If you want to show your node in a modal, a simpler approach would be to use the Colorbox and the Colorbox node modules (the last one has Views integration).

So after installing both modules, go to your View; in your Fields, when you click on any of them, you will see that the option "Link this field to the original piece of content" now has another one that says "Display the content inside of a colorbox". Check it, and it will make your nodes open in a modal window (colorbox).