Component refuses to refresh the view

[jpjean]

I am changing the view (tmpl/default.php) of my component and the changes are not reflected at all. I have been at it for a couple hours now and this is not healthy...

I even tried to delete the page default.php and it still shows up. I have checked that caching is disabled but maybe I am missing something on that front.

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the component, but the old view is still showing.

Anyone has an idea of what the problem could be?

[waarnemer]

well you should not make changes in the tmpl/default.php..

you should make the changes in your template override....... -> html folder

there probably already is an override therefore you don't see the changes....

[jpjean]

Thanks for your prompt reply and fpr putting me on that path. I have read more stuff on overrides and I understand better the concept now. One would use an override to preserve the original version of a component or a module.

In this case, this is my own developed component and I need to change the original version. There is currently an override. Not sure how it got created and when (probably by me in my early days of playing around with jommla!).

How do I go about removing an override in joomla!? Simply delete the folder in templates/[myTemplate]/html/[myComponent]?

Thanks again.
Pierre

[waarnemer]

that's it... sometimes to preserve it for future reference I just prefix it with a dot or underscore

[jpjean]

Thank you very much Joomla! Ace for you help! Everything is working as expected now.

Have a great day.

Pierre