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Thank you for the tutorial. After reading it, I have some questions.

I am using the beez template and want to turn of the date created text in the search results. I was able to remove that text by editing components/com_search/views/views/search/view.html.php.

How can I override that view? I tried by copying view.html.php in the templates/beez/html/com_search/search folder. However, it does not work.

Can you clarify my doubt.

Thanks,
Sonal

You want to copy /components/com_search/views/search/tmpl/default* to /html/com_search/search/default*

Don't copy the view.html.php file - that won't work.

Great Work!

Is it possible to override the view.html.php in any way? I'm sure I read that you can override any models, views, etc.

I've modified the way the weblinks submission component works (removed the need to have an account). However I'd prefer to use an override, so changes don't get reverted when Joomla gets updated. Is this possible?

If you are wanting to go that far, you are probably better off copying the whole search component and making changes.

Got it! Thank you for your help.

Sonal

Please confirm if my understanding is correct for the following edits I need to make.

*) I was able to remove the 'data created' text in the search results. I need to replace it with another date. This should be a plugin, correct?

*) I want the search areas to be changed from Category, Section, Article to specific categories for the website I am updating(eg. Books, References, etc). For that I will need to write a plugin and edit the SQL query, correct?

Thank you for your help.

Sonal

Nice tutorial but I think I need to re-read.....or better, I'm goint to print it to study some ot its lines.

[quote="svivian"]Is it possible to override the view.html.php in any way? I'm sure I read that you can override any models, views, etc.[/quote]
I'd like to know about this too, there are many times I just want to tweak a few design elements without making my own complete component. Often it is little things like Page numbers appearing in Page Titles that most of my clients dont like.

You do depend on the variables that the view.html.php sends to the layout (or that the layout grabs from the view.html.php, if you prefer). But you can perform additional tasks in your layout page (like getting stuff from the database or re-formatting content).
That's actually coming from a content plugin (pagebreak.php). You cannot alter this (well, you can, but you shouldn't). You could however duplicate this plugin, rename it and use it instead of the original. Than tweak it in anyway you like (this plugin also renders the table of content in multi-page articles).

Greetings,

I also have a bit of a problem, and with the good old com_search, now basically all I want is a raw view for Ajax, but the standard search has none, and if I override the normal view... well we all know what happens then..You kill your normal search

So Something that would be nice in future version, is to be able to add/extend, and not just override. This way one can add views to existing components, without really touching them.

Maybe this is already possible

I m new to joomla can you help for getting data into tabular format and with pagination. actually i dont know what I have to do for this.

It's really good, thanks a lot

I tried experimenting with this on a localhost site with RUK_Milkyway.
I'm not sure what that "sliders" chrome does, but I went with implementing it
on the mod_login, since i wanted to enhance that one anyway, just to see what would happen.

I copied the mod-login recursively into the template html directory, I placed the xtml tag in the form
and set name to 'login".

Nothing happened at all. Is this because it is not MVC?

thanks chef
i just started reading it
it is fabulous

Thank you.

Got it! Thank you for your help.

In my template I wanted to show modules ina postion one after another in the same row.I tried <jdoc:include type="modules" name="user1" style="horz"/> but it didnt give me the result i needed.I replaced it with <jdoc:include type="modules" name="user1" style="horizontal"/>
and edited 'templates/mytemplate/html/modules.php' and added function modChrome_horizontal($module, &$params, &$attribs) like this
unction modChrome_horizontal($module, &$params, &$attribs)
{
$curtemplate = JDocumentHTML::getInstance();

if($GLOBALS[$attribs['name']."_pos"]+0 == 0)
{
?>
<table align="center" width="100%">
<tr>
<?php

}
?>
<td valign="top">
<?php

modChrome_table($module, $params, $attribs); ?>
</td>
<?php
$GLOBALS[$attribs['name']."_pos"]++;
if($curtemplate->countModules($attribs['name']) == $GLOBALS[$attribs['name']."_pos"])
{
?>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
}
}

If there is a better way than this please let me know

Thank You So Eazy.

Hello everyone,
I need to override the com_registration, I need to add another field ( 2 radio buttons for the user to select one option or the other.. ).
I have been looking around for tips and stuff, but I cant really find the file that generates the page.

Any help?

That's not what layout overrides are for. They're only for changing the output of what's already there. You'll have to either find a dedicated user component, or maybe read this tutorial and see if that helps you with where to edit code.