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Guidance on 'overrides'

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Brian Henkel

Friday 18 April 2008 12:03:55 pm

Hello,

I am fairly new to Exponential, so please excuse my ignorance. I've been reading as much as possible to get up-to-speed.

I want to change the layout of my homepage. I know 'overrides' is how I accomplish this. 'pagelayout.tpl' is the main template file. In order to override this, I need to make a copy and place it at: design/ezwebin_site/override/templates/ .

Now I need to change the 'override.ini.append.php' file located at: settings/siteaccess/

Inside the 'override.ini.append.php' file I place:

[pagelayout_override]

(I can name this anything, correct?)

Source=design/standard/templates/pagelayout.tpl

(this is the path to the pagelayout.tpl file I'm overriding)

MatchFile=<pagelayoutcopy.tpl>

(MatchFile = whatever I name the new file that will override the previous file)

Subdir=templates


I know I can also add 'Match[class_identifier]=' here for special instances, but I don't believe I need it in this case, correct?

Thanks for your guidance,

Brian

paul bolger

Friday 18 April 2008 9:38:48 pm

Here's one that works for me:

Note the node parameter, this overrides the front page only, and that's its node id. Also note that Subdir=templates refers to override/templates in your siteaccess.

I normally test that the override is working by putting <h1>New Pagelayout</h1> at the top to the template copy. Also, if it doesn't seem to work clear the cache.

[frontpagelayout]
Source=pagelayout.tpl
MatchFile=frontpagelayout.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[node]=373

Paul Bolger

Siw Helen Thorslund

Saturday 19 April 2008 2:05:39 am

Hi Brian,

Have a look here:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_0/templates/the_template_override_system

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