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Ivan Švogor	Tuesday 28 September 2010 7:20:37 am Hello, I'm having issues creating my custom desing. I'm simply trying just add some text HELLO or I'M HERE in the pagelayout.tpl . But what ever I do it does not apper. I tryed to edit the one in /design/base and /desing/standard, clear cash from shell but still nothing. What am I doing wrong? Help file says that pagelayout.tpl is the main template for the whole page. How, or better, where do I edit the existing one?
Matthieu Sévère	Tuesday 28 September 2010 7:30:29 am Hello Ivan, Did you try to empty your cache after your modiification ? Anyway the good way to go is to override existing template and create a new custom design. You should read the template section of the documentation to get the logic : http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Templates Good luck :) -- eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/346216
Quoc Huy Nguyen Dinh	Tuesday 28 September 2010 7:49:27 am Hi Ivan Are you trying to modify the pagelayout.tpl from /design/base, /design/standard from the root of your eZ installation? If so then you won't be able to do this as most of the time these templates are overriden by an override template from an design extension. For example if you have installed eZ Publish and have choosen to use ezwebin (Website Interface extension) then ~/design/standard/templates/pagelayout.tpl will be ignored and overriden by ~/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl It is not recommended to directly modify ~/design/standard/* or ~/design/base/. It is also not recommended to modify the design templates of ezflow or ezwebin. Instead create your own design templates and copy over templates files from ezflow or ezwebin and modify your copy. Example: if you need to modify ~/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl then: Go to your ez publish root* mkdir extension/mydesign install -d extension/mydesign/settings install -d extension/mydesign/design/standard/templates vi extension/mydesign/settings/design.ini.append.php <?php /* [ExtensionSettings] DesignExtensions[]=mydesign / ?> cd .. cp extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl extension/mydesign/design/standard/templates/ vi extension/mydesign/design/standard/templates/pagelayout.tpl make your changes* now activate your extension: vi settings/override/site.ini.append.php Look for [ExtensionSettings], then look for ActiveExtensions[]=ezwebin Add this before that line: ActiveExtensions[]=mydesign Clear caches and this should work.

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Tuesday 28 September 2010 7:20:37 am

Hello,

I'm having issues creating my custom desing. I'm simply trying just add some text HELLO or I'M HERE in the pagelayout.tpl . But what ever I do it does not apper. I tryed to edit the one in /design/base and /desing/standard, clear cash from shell but still nothing. What am I doing wrong?

Help file says that pagelayout.tpl is the main template for the whole page. How, or better, where do I edit the existing one?

Matthieu Sévère

Tuesday 28 September 2010 7:30:29 am

Hello Ivan,

Did you try to empty your cache after your modiification ?

Anyway the good way to go is to override existing template and create a new custom design. You should read the template section of the documentation to get the logic : http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Templates

Good luck :)

--
eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/346216

Quoc Huy Nguyen Dinh

Tuesday 28 September 2010 7:49:27 am

Hi Ivan

Are you trying to modify the pagelayout.tpl from /design/base, /design/standard from the root of your eZ installation? If so then you won't be able to do this as most of the time these templates are overriden by an override template from an design extension.

For example if you have installed eZ Publish and have choosen to use ezwebin (Website Interface extension) then ~/design/standard/templates/pagelayout.tpl will be ignored and overriden by ~/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl

It is not recommended to directly modify ~/design/standard/* or ~/design/base/*. It is also not recommended to modify the design templates of ezflow or ezwebin. Instead create your own design templates and copy over templates files from ezflow or ezwebin and modify your copy.

Example:

if you need to modify ~/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl then:

Go to your ez publish root

mkdir extension/mydesign

install -d extension/mydesign/settings

install -d extension/mydesign/design/standard/templates

vi extension/mydesign/settings/design.ini.append.php

<?php /*

[ExtensionSettings]

DesignExtensions[]=mydesign

*/ ?>

cd ..

cp extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl extension/mydesign/design/standard/templates/

vi extension/mydesign/design/standard/templates/pagelayout.tpl

make your changes

now activate your extension:

vi settings/override/site.ini.append.php

Look for [ExtensionSettings], then look for ActiveExtensions[]=ezwebin

Add this before that line:

ActiveExtensions[]=mydesign

Clear caches and this should work.

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 10:25:27
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 10:25:27
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 10:25:27
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 10:25:28
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 10:25:28
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.8460 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	60

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0067	587.9063	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0067	0.0031	740.5313	39.4531
Module start 'content'	0.0098	0.8349	779.9844	596.0391
Module end 'content'	0.8446	0.0014	1,376.0234	12.1719
Script end	0.8460		1,388.1953

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0033	0.3900	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1521	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0012	0.1473	1	0.0012
Mysqli_queries	0.7543	89.1597	60	0.0126
Looping result	0.0007	0.0839	58	0.0000
Template Total	0.8144	96.3	2	0.4072
Template load	0.0020	0.2389	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.8123	96.0148	2	0.4062
Template load and register function	0.0011	0.1293	1	0.0011
states
state_id_array	0.0013	0.1559	1	0.0013
state_identifier_array	0.0012	0.1469	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0018	0.2103	46	0.0000
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0006	0.0692	3	0.0002
Fetch class attribute name	0.0016	0.1941	5	0.0003
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0200	2.3645	3	0.0067
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0014	5	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0217	2.5611	24	0.0009
String conversion	0.0000	0.0009	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
10	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/link.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/link.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/strong.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/strong.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 24 Number of unique templates used: 7

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs