where is my *.tpl ...?

Monday 11 December 2006 3:39:55 am

Hi!

I tried to change my main content design. I found in pagelayout.tpl:

{$module_result.content}

Then I tried find file which is responsible for this part of code. I found on eZ site that it can be <b>folder.tpl</b>. I found this file in <b>"design/base/override/teplates/full/"</b>. I changed it but it doesn't work! I think it's not this file. My <b>pagelayout.tpl</b> comes from <b>design/base/templates/</b> but in this folder I didn't find <b>folder.tpl</b> :(

How can I check where is template file?

Marcin

Monday 11 December 2006 5:44:26 am

You should take a look at the site creation guide in the old documentation:
http://ez.no/ezpublish/documentation/building_an_ez_publish_site

Also:
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/templates/template_basics

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Monday 11 December 2006 6:06:07 am

Give those documents that André linked a read as they give a good grounding for template changes.

To find the template to override you sometimes have to go through all the pages of results in the 'Admin/Templates' section (see the links that go from 1 to 41 or more). The best way to do this I find is to use the find feature in the browser.

For a common template like pagelayout.tpl you will usually find it in the second half of the screen which will save a lot of searching. Make sure you get pagelayout.tpl and not something like print_pagelayout.tpl. Click on the underlined template name and you will be given a dropdown list containing the siteaccesses of your site. Make sure the right one is selected, if it isn't then select it and click Set. Then make a new override. The important bit on this next screen is to select 'Copy of default template'.

Once the override is made, you can really start to learn the templating side.

Monday 11 December 2006 7:19:33 am

If you overrode it through the admin interface then you shouldn't need to change anything. The admin interface will add the override code to the bottom of override.ini.append.php which will look something like:

[new_pagelayout]
Source=pagelayout.tpl
MatchFile=new_pagelayout.tpl
Subdir=templates

Where new_pagelayout is what you called the new file.

Have you cleared the cache since making it?

Monday 11 December 2006 8:50:20 am

You don't need to change anything in site.ini, that just tells it where to look for it's default templates.

Make sure that the 'mypro_pagelayout' part in override.ini.append.php comes before the 'pagelayout' part. If what you pasted was what you saw in the file then its ok.

Not sure why your one isn't working. Are the file permissions ok on the files you uploaded? Or, try editing the new pagelayout overrides through the admin interface. Just find them in the templates list and click the edit pencil beside them.

Monday 11 December 2006 9:21:32 am

Odd. What version of eZ publish are you using?

Monday 11 December 2006 3:46:42 pm

Great, but could you for the sake of future beginners also write what was causing this ?

Since you now are on your way to template mastering, I'll give you one other time saving tip. Always look up this page:
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8

the moste importing topics for template development can be found in Chapther 5: Reference.

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Tuesday 12 December 2006 7:08:08 am

It was regular mess ;)
I have some old overide .tpl files. I deleted all (from admin panel) and did again the new override. Now works perfect!

For beginners: Before you open FTP client try to use admin interface other way you can make mess like I did ;-)

Marcin