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Friday 27 August 2010 12:02:45 am
Hi Gary, and welcome. There are two things that should be distinguished here imho: the template system, and the design system. While the template system syntax is getting a bit old, and can be a bit cumbersome sometimes, eZ Publish design mechanism is imho one of the best things since sliced bread. Regarding the template system itself, it is mostly quite simple. There is a whole documentation chapter about it, that is quite well structured (the one thiago gave you a link to). The design system is a bit more complex, but also more powerful. It is this one that will let you override the files eZ Publish provides by default (templates, images, stylesheets, etc... everything). You can read more about them here: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/concepts_and_basics/designs. The subchapter for this page will show you one of the most powerful aspects: design combinations (http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/concepts_and_basics/designs/design_combinations). eZ Publish basically uses an override system that will let you combine multiple designs in order to render your content, with the minimal amount of changes and code. This last chapter also explains quite well how these are configured in INI files. It is a bit hard to tell you more than that without more accurate questions, but feel free to ask more details here (or on IRC, if you're an old geek: #ezpublish@irc.freenode.net.
Bertrand Dunogier
eZ Systems Engineering, Lyon
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