So I'm a little confused by Joomla's Alternative Layout overrides.
I'm using Joomla 3.3
I have read all Joomla 3.x documentation, and have followed many tutorials without any luck.
So here are my template files:
Promo is the name of the alternative layout which I would like to activate for one of my Category Pages.
So it appears as an alternative layout without a problem.
Then I've gone ahead and made the menu item:
However when I go on the page, it calls the blog.php override only and not the promo.php layout
What am I doing wrong here?
Where is your promo.xml file? You should have one in the same directory where you have your promo.php file. The promo.xml file should be a copy of the blog.xml file located under the public_html/components/com_content/views/category/tmpl folder. You will only need to change the line:
<layout title="COM_CONTENT_CATEGORY_VIEW_BLOG_TITLE" option="COM_CONTENT_CATEGORY_VIEW_BLOG_OPTION">
to
<layout title="promo" option="promo">
And then when you create a menu item, choose its type to be promo.
To expand on #itoctopus, there are two different things, an alternative layout and an alternate menu layout. If you make a direct menu link you must use the latter. For this you need the xml file, and at that point it will show up in your list of menu options. Alternative layouts are applied to items and the do not show up in the menu options. The menu always overrides the item. There are some additional options you can play around with.
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i bought one theme and i want to fix my layared navigation to work well.
I need help from which file i have to edit to fix my layered navigation to show after my menu.
First you should find correct template file,then override the template within your theme, then finally rearrange the code so that it displays beneath the vertical navigation. The following may (possibly) work for you. But I don't know what type of theme you are using.
go to your magento backend url, then go to system->configuration->developer then open the debug panel.
Change the current configuration scope to 'Main Website'. Upper left corner of config page.
This should add some items to the debug panel. Set template path hints to 'yes'.
go back to the website and find the phtml file that controls your nav.
copy the file into the theme your using using the same folder structure.
edit that code.
PS another solution may be available to alter the layout files of your site. they get overridden in a similar fashion to phtml files.
I am making a template in CS-Cart by including the needed tpl files directly into my html where needed. But what I'm not sure how to do is include the main menu.
eg.
{include file="common/search.tpl"}
I've created a custom menu, which currently contains two categories and two pages, and called it 'Top Nav'. How do I include this in my html template file?
You can do this, but you'll still need to use the block manager.
You can create a block for your menu, and manually insert it by following the tutorial here: http://forum.cs-cart.com/topic/29828-a-simple-way-to-add-any-content-on-any-place-on-template/
Though, as Alexander points out, it's not the recommended way to do it.
You should consider to start using the built-in block manager.
A block is a "widget" that can be put into an any place on the page using GUI at the administration panel. There is no separate template for that, blocks are being rendered dynamically - you can't just include it into your template.
So you should create a block that will render the menu you've created and position it on your page layout.
Check out the documentation to learn more: http://docs.cs-cart.com/4.3.x/user_guide/look_and_feel/menus/index.html
Is it possible to add an accordion to a Joomla 3.x component's options screen, similar to what is presented in Joomla's menu or template parameters screens?
If so, how does would one structure the config.xml file?
Example illustration of what I am trying to achieve:
Com_config manages that view and it pretty much expects a standard structure. You might be able to do a layout override for it as long as you don't break the other extensions. You could for example make it conditional on the option being your extension.
I am currently updating a web page for a company who are still using the very old Joomla 1. When creating a new menu item, I have found that an article is needed in order to create the page.
My problem is the fact that there is no option to alter the location on the page of the article. For modules, this is not a problem as there is an option which can be used to choose the specific location. For articles there is no such option, which has been of grave annoyance as they simply crop up here, there and everywhere!
If it is of any assistance the theme which is being used is contained here: http://demo.rockettheme.com/?template=versatility4
Regards,
Chri3
I dont think this has changed in any version of Joomla, but it has been so long since I have looked at a Joomla 1 installation, I could be way off. Additionally, I dont have one to look at for reference.
So here goes my scientific wild &^#%! guess. When you create a menu from the menu manager in Joomla, you have to select a "menu item type". This could be a single article layout, category layout, blog layout, or link to another installed component, ect... I think its one of the first options in the menu item manager.
Then once you select "single article" there should be a dialog box that allows you to select or manually enter the article you would like to display for that menu item. Hope this helps!
Open up your templates index.php file and look for the following code...
<jdoc:include type="component" />
This is the call to the "main component" in your case would be the content component. You can move this anywhere within index.php and your article will display there
I'm in the process of porting an existing website to Joomla. Most pages of this website consist of a main content area and a sidebar containing additional items relating to the main content, such as (in-page) links, images, additional information, etc.
In Joomla, the main page content would probably be an article, but I'm not sure what would be the best way to create the sidebar content in Joomla.
Examples of pages-with-sidebar:
http://www.aikikan.nl/en_watisaikido
http://www.aikikan.nl/dojo?id=2
I'm creating a custom template for this website, so any solutions that require modifying the template are fine as well. What would be the best way to set this up?
Keep the content of each sidebar in an article and then assign it to a module by means of the article-as-module extension. You can then control the scope for each module (i.e. choose menu postions for which it will be shown) in the admin interface.
There is an extension called meta mod which is perfect for this sort of thing. It allows you to show modules based on any condition you can evaluate with PHP