Comments on: Different layout for every page in Joomla 1.5.x

By: vsree

vsree — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:42:28 +0000

hi,
I have one problem.
For my project i am using joomla CMS v1.5 for content management. Below is i mention my project structure.

In CityPortal(root folder) folder we have different folder based on cities.

–css folder
–js folder
–images folder
–index.php file
templatexml.xml file
–city one folder
—–city one index.php file
—–city one info.php file
–city two folder
—–city two index.php file
—–city two info.php file
–city three folder
—–city three index.php file
—–city three cityinfo.php file
here, i can’t access every page and i am getting error like ‘Restricted access’. Please tell me any one how to access(create) above structure using JOOMLA 1.5v.
thank for the help in advance.

By: Egor Khmelev

Egor Khmelev — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:53:10 +0000

@also Egor, as I understand Page Class Suffix allow you to restyle html that you already have by adding a new css class. The way here explained is how to create completely new html layout for different pages.

By: also Egor

also Egor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:46:38 +0000

Hi,
I’m studying the subject right now. As far as I understand, it could be solved using Page Class Suffix. Am I right?

By: Claudio

Claudio — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:41:57 +0000

Hi Egor,
can you tell me how Joomla decides what theme to display?
That is I have a global theme layout with 3 cols content, then a sublayout with 2 cols content but every link I click displays only 3 cols layout. What is wrong?
P.S. Default joomla theme is subLayout.

By: Egor Hmelyoff

Egor Hmelyoff — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:36:41 +0000

Hello Jason, could you send me please example that doesn’t work. I will try to figure out what is wrong with that.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:12:22 +0000

Sorry, I meant default override. Like /templates/_global/html/com_content/default.php – when i do this way it doesn’t work, when I put this into theme to assign (home in this example) then all goes fine. Creating symlink is not a solution in my case… Any ideas?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:52:15 +0000

Hi Egor,
it seems there is no chance to create com_* overrides with this approach,
at least when I create /templates/home/html/com_content/default.php it doesn’t override default com_content component layout. Is there any solution to make it working or I do something wrong? Please help..

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:34:12 +0000

Ahhh…gotcha. Thanks.

By: Egor Hmelyoff

Egor Hmelyoff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:25:22 +0000

First of all “_global” template not for assign. You need to edit layout.php in “home” template for example. And besides, if you have layout.php in “home” template its mean that you redefined _global/layout.php, so any changes in _global/layout.php never come up.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:02:11 +0000

I tried editing the _global/layout.php file, but anything I put in there does not show up on the site.

By: Egor Hmelyoff

Egor Hmelyoff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:49:21 +0000

You just need to declare and assign this template to menu items that you need. All new articles will have this template view.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:02:21 +0000

Do you know if there is a way to have a new Article automatically assume a template? Rather than having to assign a template to the article after the article has been created?

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:51:04 +0000

Sorry, I was trying to think at the end of the day. I’m not seeing my com_content modification in the global folder. The only fix I could come up with was to create a symlink from home/html/com_content to global/html/com_content.

By: Egor Hmelyoff

Egor Hmelyoff — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:35:05 +0000

Thank you for your reply Blake.

Till you wrote I didn’t know about that problem, but now its solved.
Update your files and you can use in inherited template typical construction like $this->params->get(…) and also $this->global_params->get(…) for access to params of _global template.

Sorry, but I don’t understand about component.php, you can mail me with sources and I’ll try to help you.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:51:17 +0000

Works great! Simple and easy. Except I’m not seeing my modified component.php, which is in the _global root folder. Also the _global params.ini is read instead of the inherited template params.ini. Any ideas?