Comments on: Magento – add custom layout template

By: ajay kumar jain

ajay kumar jain — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:30:25 +0000

Hi,

Great post for magento developers!

Ajay

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:59:16 +0000

Tried as indicated. When I went back to the page that I’d switched, the entire page was blank. If I delete certain portions of the file changes, I can get the page to show but not as the new template. Also, the instructions here direct me to create a layout in config.xml that references a handle, don’t we need to create a handle to match. I tried that too but that didn’t fix it either.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:26:49 +0000

Thanks for the post, just what I needed, I’ve looked at a few tuts for this and none showed how to put it in local folder.

I had caching preventing the new template showing in the backend dropdowns so deleted everything from var/cache – I’m sure there’s a much better way to do this but it worked for me.

Thanks again.

By: John Natoli

John Natoli — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:38:44 +0000

nevermind, i figured it out. i can’t figure out how to attached stylesheets and all that via a layout now though. i had been using local.xml, but since switching templates it no longer works.

By: John Natoli

John Natoli — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:19:53 +0000

Thanks for this post man. I have a problem though. I followed all the steps and copied and pasted the xml exactly as you have it into a file in the modules folder, but now when i click the dropdown in the backend to assign a template, the dropdown is blank. i see //tell which folder to look in, but which folder are you referring to? Thanks!

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:35 +0000

Thanks for the fast help loonytoons,

This is now working as expected, helped me out with a project and a deadline!

Really useful post, thanks again

By: loonytoons

loonytoons — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:35:14 +0000

Hi James,

if you don’t have an app/code/local/Mage/Page/etc folder then you need to create one.
Unless you’ve had cause to already modify this section of code then you won’t already have this in the local folder.

Using this local folder allows us to modify sections of the core code or add to it without worrying that it’ll get overwritten during any core updates.

Hope that helps!

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:45:07 +0000

Hi, i’m new to magento but just attempting this now, i have no app/code/local/Mage/Page/etc/ folder just to be sure do i have to create this or should i have this folder already?

Thanks!

By: Hipson Wisely

Hipson Wisely — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:53:40 +0000

Very usefull Info Thank You for sharing

By: Sankho

Sankho — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:34:27 +0000

Great post! Really helped me out with a project. Thanks!