Themes: Templates overriding : a small Tutorial

Posted by: alain01On 2006/9/23 21:50:00 13417 reads

Didactic Example # 2:

Another example but with the "waiting contents" from the Extensible Waiting Block Module module.

0a 0b 0c 0d Same as example 1

1) First let's download the template block file:
admin system / templates / Waiting Contents Extensible [i]list / line waiting_block_waiting.html, [Download]
<{foreach item=module from=$block.modules}>
<{$module.name}>
<ul>
  <{foreach item=pending from=$module.pending}>
  <li>
    <{if $pending.pendingnum}>
      <span style='font-weight:bold;'>
    <{else}>
      <span style='font-weight:normal;'>
    <{/if}>

      <a href="<{$pending.adminlink}>"><{$pending.lang_linkname}></a>:<{$pending.pendingnum}>
    </span>
  </li>
  <{/foreach}>
</ul>
<{/foreach}>


2) Let's modify the file you just downloaded and now have locally.
<{foreach item=module from=$block.modules}>
[color=FF0000]<b>[/color]<{$module.name}>[color=FF0000]</b>[/color]
<ul>
  <{foreach item=pending from=$module.pending}>
  <li>
      <a href="<{$pending.adminlink}>"><{$pending.lang_linkname}></a> : 
    <{if $pending.pendingnum}>
      [color=FF0000]<font color=red><b>[/color]<{$pending.pendingnum}>[color=FF0000]</b></font>[/color]
    <{else}>
      <{$pending.pendingnum}>
    <{/if}>
  </li>
  <{/foreach}>
</ul>
[color=FF0000]<hr />[/color]
<{/foreach}>


3) If my theme is 7dana-soft, via ftp, go to the directory
/themes/dana-soft Let's create the directory modules then down and create directory waiting then down and create directory blocks

4) Let's upload the local file waiting_block_waiting.html to /themes/dana-soft/modules/waiting/blocks/ on the server.

5) Let's delete files in the /template_c directory (except index.html) (or update modules cache) to see the result...
Resized Image <== Default waiting contents bloc - Custum ==>Resized Image