Hi I'm new to magento!
I want to edit the layout of the search field like change its placeholder, text instead of icon for the search button, etc.
and it seems like its located here:
/www/cleanz-aire/vendor/magento/module-search/view/frontend/templates/form.mini.phtmlMagento\Framework\View\Element\Template
I'm working in a child theme so is there any way I can edit it from child theme?
Sure you can.
Create a directory Magento_Search in your theme.
app/code/design/frontend/<vendor>/<name>/Magento_Search
Create a file in the Magento_Search directory.
app/code/design/frontend/<vendor>/<name>/Magento_Search/templates/form.mini.phtml
Copy code from the original file (vendor/magento/module-search/view/frontend/templates/form.mini.phtml) into the new one and make your changes.
Don't forget to flush your caches.
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I am having a little trouble here with a Magento installation here, which I "inherited" from a company who did some pretty heavy customizations to the theme.
I tried to rationalize most of the changes and was pretty successful with it. The problem is now, that I have some template files which have only one line of change.
In this specific case for example it would be a <button> that is now an <a> link. This is pretty much only one line in a 300 line template file.
Similar problems occurred with layout files of extensions. They have ONE dirty line in there, which for example resets the whole layout.
I then need to overwrite the complete layout XML file in the design, just to make a little change in one line, because those layout files are either overwritten or not. There is not merging process involved.
I took a look into the designer's documentation of Magento, but could not find anything useful.
I know that I could do some specific layout changes in the "local.xml" in my design, but those are more or less "contextless", which is not that great if those changes do belong to a certain extension.
Do you know a way to apply little template changes like mentioned in the first half or partially layout file overrides?
My main goal is to keep the files automatically updatable, which pretty much means: Download the module, replace files, done.
No manual updates to any overwritten files.
Use the "inherited" template as default template in a new package and add a child template with your changes. Example:
app/design/frontend/[package_name]/default - here will be the "inherited" old template
app/design/frontend/[package_name]/[your_child_template] - here will be your new child template
skin/design/frontend/[package_name]/default - here will be the "inherited" old template
skin/design/frontend/[package_name]/[your_child_template] - here will be your new child template
Partially layout file overwrides can be done for all pages or extensions in one local.xml file. Example:
app/design/frontend/[package_name]/[your_child_template]/layout/local.xml
If you want to add changes for a certain extension just add the extension xml file in your template folder. It will be the last one rendered and will wthe original. Example for the checkout cart page:
app/design/frontend/[package_name]/[your_child_template]/template/checkout/cart.phtml
For a small change inside a phtml file like your button example you will have to overwrite the whole phtml file. There is no way in Magneto to overwrite just a part of a phtml file.
I'm trying to edit the K2 content module by changing the file:
/modules/mod_k2_content/tmpl/Default/default.php
Basically I need a div to wrap around:
<a class="moduleItemCategory">
Somewhere near line 128.
But when I change the file nothing is changed on the webpage...
Is this the right file?
I'm not using sub-templates.
It might be possible that there is a template override for this file. Template overrides are simply a duplicate of your default.php (name may sometimes be different) which will be located in the directory below and is used to perform edits to the view of an extension without editing the core file.
templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/html/mod_k2_content/default.php
If you see this file there, then you will need to edit this one
I'd like to know if it's possible to add an additional view override to my Joomla 2.5 Template without having to create an entirely new MCV model.
For example.
Currently I have an override for the categorylist. But I'd like to make another override for the categorylist and for that to work it'd need to be an available option in the backend aswel.
So I'd be able to choose between something like:
- categorylist
- categorylist-2
So say the override file is default.php, is it possible to add a default2.php and somehow make it available in the backend, or can I only do this by copying an entire com_content view and changing it so it's a new MVC model?
I had never tried this before, but on testing it did get this to work in a way. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but it should help. With this method, you would be able to create a menu item that links to this view.
Say you were wanting to create a new category layout. You already have overridden the default layout in your template as such templates/your-template/html/com_content/category/default.php and now you want a second version.
Make a copy of default.php and rename it default2.php. Then copy the default.xml file from components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/default.xml to templates/your_template/html/com_content/category/default.xml and rename this to default2.xml.
Open default2.xml and edit the title attribute of the layout tag at the top.
Go to the menu manager and add a new menu item and you should see your new title in the list!
I wanted to change the breadcrumbs starting point from Home to My title. I edited the file /magento/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Breadcrumbs.php but it doesn't seem to be working. Is XML playing a role in that?
thanks
Your best option is to use Magento's translate feature. Notice how the text in Breadcrumbs.php is wrapped with ->__('text') which instructs Magento to see if there is a translation for text for the current module. If you turn on Translate Inline in System>Config>Admin>Developer, you will be able to edit the text on the page (after refreshing, click the red box then the little book icon). This will then be entered into the database in the core_translate table and replaced in future page renders.
As a general rule, you should never edit files in app/code/code as you will break future upgrades and patches.
turn on Translate Inline in System>Config>Admin>Developer, you will be able to edit the text on the page (after refreshing, click the red box then the little book icon)
I'd like to add a new tab to the 'catalog->manage products->product information' page in the admin. Underneath the 'images' tab, I'd like to add a new tab for video, with a simple text input for adding a video url, which I can then grab for the frontend.
Anyone any ideas where the files are that I need to edit? I've been looking for the last couple hours with no joy. I found the list of current options in Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Setup but can't figure out how to add to them...
Seems it gets some from Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Edit_Tabs. If I copy one of the tab sections here and change the title to Video, I can get it to display in the tabs on the left. But how do I then add the options for it?
What you are trying to do, from the sounds of it, is to create a custom field and add it to your catalog data. The good news is that you don't need to muck around in the PHP for that.
Head to Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attributes and create a new attribute for yourself called "Video URL" (or something to that effect). This will probably be a text field, and you may want to hide it from comparison on the frontend of the site (select "No" for all those boxes at the bottom of the form).
Once you've created an attribute, you will need to add it to an attribute set. If all your products are of one "type", and if you didn't create any other attribute sets, this should be only one step. Head to Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attribute Sets and create a "New Group" called "Video" and drag your new video url attribute into it. Save the attribute set and you should now have your new tab.
The only complication from what I read in your post could be positioning it underneath the images tab. Magento adds several tabs statically (the long way, in the PHP) and doesn't generally obey ordering of the tab groups. Consider the time tradeoff.
Hope that helps. Thanks,
Joe
Per your other comments, for the URLs a simple attribute would work but files would tend to be more difficult. To add a custom tab, as you said, you can edit (or in the case of a plugin, override) Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Edit_Tabs::_prepareLayout and add your tab. You'll need to add a block or template to display your tab contents.
After that, you'll need to store the data somewhere. Looking in Adminhtml/controllers/ProductController, you should be able to hook into the catalog_product_prepare_save event to get data from $event->getRequest() and push it onto the product or save another entity as necessary.
I'm not sure how well file saving semantics would work on a product, so you may want to do your own data storage in the extension and then provide something like a getVideoForProduct method to retrieve it.
Then the only thing left to do is modify the catalog/product/view.phtml template file to include your thumbs and create a controller in your extension to provide a modal w/ the video (or do it in JS).
I know that's a bit of a general answer, but it's the rough path you would need to take for tabs. Let me know if any specific part of that is unclear.
Thanks,
Joe