Problem adding template file [Theme and template troubleshooting]

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Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:03
edooper
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Hi,

I'm stuck trying to add a single template file to a theme set, and I don't know if it's just me being stupid. Forgive me if I mix up terminology, I find the whole template/theme thing quite confusing.

This is what I try to accomplish: I want to add a template file called mydownloads_recent.html to the mydownloads module.
This is what I did: I cloned the theme set, downloaded it, added the html file, packed it up and uploaded it in the theme manager. It shows up yellow, with a generate button. So far so good. If I press Generate, it tells me "Selected file does not exist)". The ) is not a typo.
If I try and upload the single html file then I get the error message "Template file mydownloads_frontpage.html does not need to be installed (PHP files using this template file does not exist)".

Now what does the error message mean? Is this the proper way to add a template file or is there another way? Am I missing something? All references in the documentation only mention modifying template files, not adding them.

Can someone point me in the right direction? This shouldn't be this hard, I think.

Thanks,

Erik

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:06
Catzwolf
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Did you add this new template to xoops_version.php? Have a look at this file for blocks[]

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:09
edooper
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Yes, I did. I added the following lines:


$modversion['templates'][11]['file'] = 'mydownloads_frontpage.html';

$modversion['templates'][11]['description'] = '';

Is there anything else I need to add? Or should I place the file in the blocks dir?

Thanks,
Erik

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:15
Catzwolf
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Quote:

edooper wrote:
Yes, I did. I added the following lines:

$modversion['templates'][11]['file'] = 'mydownloads_frontpage.html'; $modversion['templates'][11]['description'] = '';

Is there anything else I need to add? Or should I place the file in the blocks dir?

Thanks,
Erik

Did you save this new template in the mydownloads/template/ directory? Because it sound like you did not. XOOPS needs this file and the fact that it says the file does not exsit make me think its not there

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:22
edooper
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Catzwolf wrote:
Quote:

Did you save this new template in the mydownloads/template/ directory? Because it sound like you did not. XOOPS needs this file and the fact that it says the file does not exsit make me think its not there

I did (first thing I checked


slaserver:erik:/var/www/html/modules/mydownloads/templates$ ls

blocks/                      [b]mydownloads_frontpage.html[/b]  mydownloads_recent.html      mydownloads_viewcat.html

index.html                   mydownloads_index.html      mydownloads_singlefile.html

mydownloads_brokenfile.html  mydownloads_modfile.html    mydownloads_submit.html

mydownloads_download.html    mydownloads_ratefile.html   mydownloads_topten.html

slaserver:erik:/var/www/html/modules/mydownloads/templates$

I suspect that my XOOPS installation suffers from decay, but unfortunately upgrading is not an option at this time...

Erik

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:31
Catzwolf
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Quote:

edooper wrote:
Catzwolf wrote:
Quote:

Did you save this new template in the mydownloads/template/ directory? Because it sound like you did not. XOOPS needs this file and the fact that it says the file does not exsit make me think its not there

I did (first thing I checked

slaserver:erik:/var/www/html/modules/mydownloads/templates$ ls blocks/ [b]mydownloads_frontpage.html[/b] mydownloads_recent.html mydownloads_viewcat.html index.html mydownloads_index.html mydownloads_singlefile.html mydownloads_brokenfile.html mydownloads_modfile.html mydownloads_submit.html mydownloads_download.html mydownloads_ratefile.html mydownloads_topten.html slaserver:erik:/var/www/html/modules/mydownloads/templates$

I suspect that my XOOPS installation suffers from decay, but unfortunately upgrading is not an option at this time...

Erik

Did you update the module afterwards?

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:37
Catzwolf
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Ok you confused me here for a second, are these new templates for blocks or for a new page (ie like the index.php page)?

The both templates are handled slighly different by xoops

for blocks, you will have to add the template as thus:


$modversion['blocks'][1]['file'] = "mydownloads_top.php";

$modversion['blocks'][1]['name'] = _MI_MYDOWNLOADS_BNAME1;

$modversion['blocks'][1]['description'] = "Shows recently added donwload files";

$modversion['blocks'][1]['show_func'] = "b_mydownloads_top_show";

$modversion['blocks'][1]['edit_func'] = "b_mydownloads_top_edit";

$modversion['blocks'][1]['options'] = "date|10|19";

$modversion['blocks'][1]['template'] = 'mydownloads_block_new.html';

Compared to the other way for templateing different pages


$modversion['templates'][1]['file'] = 'mydownloads_brokenfile.html';

$modversion['templates'][1]['description'] = '';

So is this for a block then?

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:39
edooper
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Nope - you are da man. Now it works! Woohoo!

I didn't know I had to update the module, but it did the trick - thanks a million!

Erik

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Re: Problem adding template file

2004/7/30 13:49
Catzwolf
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Quote:

edooper wrote:
Nope - you are da man. Now it works! Woohoo!

I didn't know I had to update the module, but it did the trick - thanks a million!

Erik

Your ever so welcome

ATB

Catz

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Re: Problem adding template file

2005/2/18 14:29
batdevis
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Since: 2002/8/16

I have the same problem and I don't understand the solution.

Quote:

slaserver:erik:/var/www/html/modules/mydownloads/templates$ ls blocks/ [b]mydownloads_frontpage.html[/b] mydownloads_recent.html mydownloads_viewcat.html index.html mydownloads_index.html mydownloads_singlefile.html mydownloads_brokenfile.html mydownloads_modfile.html mydownloads_submit.html mydownloads_download.html mydownloads_ratefile.html mydownloads_topten.html slaserver:erik:/var/www/html/modules/mydownloads/templates$

the file mydownloads_frontpage.html must be in block directory, isn't it?

bye

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