Simple Template Override : Welcome/Index Page

Sunday 12 November 2006 9:36:27 pm

As someone who's new to eZ Publish, I'm following the instructions on creating a simple override for a welcome page. Problem is, regardless of what I do, nothing at all happens. I don't get any changes. What am I doing wrong? Some things are confusing to me, like the override.ini.append.php file is completely commented out ( with /* and */ ), is this intentional for security? I've tried putting my block both inside and outside of the comments but no result. Searching the forums/site has been futile as well, as those changes haven't worked for me either.

All I want to do is have the index page's content area have a different layout (sans menus and navigation) between the header area and the footer area, nothing else (every other webpage I'd like to keep with the default layout). I tried to do simple <style>#layer { display:none; } (with correct syntax), but <style> tags aren't permitted.

Could someone fill me in? I can't imagine its more then 2 or 3 steps to just have the index page show a different content area.

Thanks

Monday 13 November 2006 12:40:12 am

Thank you, your example worked.

I tried every other persons examples and I got no success.

Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:53:58 am

Hi,

yes, it should work. Just make sure the name of the override block is not repeated, also check that your override template is stored in the right place and points to the correct view that is being loaded.

Another example:

<?php /* #?ini charset="iso-8859-1"?

[homepage]
Source=node/view/full.tpl
MatchFile=full/home.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[node]=2

[mycustomcontactform]
Source=node/view/full.tpl
MatchFile=full/myform.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[node]=223

...

*/ ?>

Just try not to abuse much of the node matching and see if you can make a class match better. Also try to put this override on the top of the file, if you put the new block at bottom it's possible that there is any other previous override block that is being applied and yours ignored.

Hope it works, if not, let me know.

Microblau SL
http://www.microblau.net