Forums / Setup & design / making override tpl's... (newbie-question..)
Jesper Haggren
Sunday 31 August 2003 4:09:28 pm
hi everybody;
after making a clean install of ez3 I look at the ../design/user/templates/pagelayout.tpl file. The first include in the file is:
{include uri="design:page_head.tpl"}
This file isn't availible in the "../design/user/templates/"-folder therefore ez3 uses the "../design/standard/templates/page_head.tpl"-file.
The next include:
{include uri="design:page_topbox.tpl"}
This file is availible in the same folder as pagelayout and therefore this file is used!
My problem is:
Now I created the page_head.tpl in the same folder as pagelayout.tpl and page_topbox.tpl. You then would think that ez3 starts using my new file instead of the one in the standard-folder. This isn't happening! What am I doing wrong?
Haggren
Paul Forsyth
Monday 01 September 2003 12:17:31 am
You may need to look at the override file, which specifies which files are used when.
Read this document:
http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/custom_design/override_templates
Paul
Paul Borgermans
Monday 01 September 2003 2:21:38 am
Well I think it should pick up the file (if its in design/<your design>/templates) without the need to specify it in the override.ini.append file.
Did you clear your cache?It is advisable to disabling "ViewCaching" in the [content] section of your site.ini.append.php file (in settings/override, not the original site.ini) while editing templates.
-paul
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Monday 01 September 2003 6:55:02 am
ok thanks... I cleared the /var/cache/override folder and reloaded the page.. it worked!
I checked my override.ini and nothing is active in there.
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I guess thee solution is to clear the override-cache everytime I start using a new own-defined-template.
Thanks Paul!
/Jesper
Monday 01 September 2003 7:06:09 am
I think ez needs a 'click here if things are not working' button :)
paul
Monday 01 September 2003 10:06:45 am
Good suggestion, a cleanup button :-)
Another thing Bård warned me on: accelerator cache.
When I get "inexplicable" problems, I clear the phpa cache files too (usually in /tmp) and restart the entire apache server+ database with a virgin (empty) var/cache. The latter is mostly taking less than 1 sec, so it's OK.