Where to put templates?

Tuesday 09 September 2003 8:57:46 am

where should i put tempalte int templates or template/override ?

It looks like i can put them in eaither.

I have the following

<?php /* #?ini charset="utf8"?

[frontpage_pagelayout]
Source=pagelayout.tpl
MatchFile=frontpage_pagelayout.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[section]=1

[frontpage_line_article]
Source=node/view/line.tpl
MatchFile=frontpage_line_article.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[section]=1
Match[class]=2

*/ ?>

and i can put the files in either place.

Whats best practice?

Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:20:45 am

If you are trying to override a template that currently exists you must put *your* new template into the overrides directory. Thats where ez will expect your override to be.

When you declare an override, as you given in your example, it must be put into the templates/override directory otherwise ez falls back on the original.

Paul

Wednesday 10 September 2003 9:29:03 am

No, its like intented. After experimenting (and the course in Skien), this the current status: there are actually 3 levels / places which determine which templates are used.

The default is to use: /design/standard/templates/.....

This can be overriden by templates in exactly the same directory structure inside /design/<yourdesign>/templates. You can call this the "default" site specific templates. (you may copy the entire folder inside /design/standard/templates/ to this one if you want to make changes to the defaults from standard).

The third one (and which has precedence over the above two) is through the override.ini file. What you specify here lives in /design/<yourdesign>/override/templates if you specify a SubDir=templates

Does that clarify something?

-paul

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