Override Query Please

[kobra]

I hope that you have or are reading this from the first "sticky post" in this forum??wiki on Overrides

Template_default and the files in it are part of the normal install and contain the core files that can be edited and placed in your template(override) folders. This is not a template that your host installed.

Then when my friend set up a new template "uktemplate" is that is now the override folder??

YES, but to double check go to the admin > tools > template selection > you should see uktemplate. If it is not the default, click it to make it the target, in the right box find the 'edit' button and click it, in the dropdown select uktemplate and update.

If uktemplate is currently the default, skip the above.

So when this is the default, it is also the name for all your override folders.

Then around the remainder of the site there would be a folder for each where files had to be edited. - I am not sure what you mean by 'around the remainder of the site" Sorrrrrry

In post #2, I tried to illustrate, the fact that there are several places where you will create and use a folder named uktemplate. These are at any place where there exists a classic folder in the tree. These are the "around the remainder of the site" or the other places where there is a classic folder in the tree...

Also, in post #2 "For the english directory" it shows my .php files should be in /languages/english/uktemplate folder, but for some reason are here. http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...zencartftp.jpg
Which I think may be wrong.

This snapshot is a good illustration...the files that you have pointed to are the files under english THAT if you require editing one or more of them, the edited copy(not the original) would be placed in the uktemplate folder that is there. Only place files that you have edited in the uktemplate folders.

If you also navigate to this folder(includes/languages/english), and open the 'html_includes' folder you will see that there is a classic folder there also. One would create a uktemplate in this tree and copies of files that you edit are placed in this uktemplate folder.

So, I think I was right, that my uktemplate is actually my override folder, so does that mean that if I wanted to edit a certain file, I go to the classic folder to open it, copy it to my uktemplate folder, then edit it in dreamweaver?

Really close, but re-read the comments directly above from your screen shot. NOT the files in the classic folder, as you have determined, in some cases there are no files contained there. It is the files that exist in the tree WHERE a classic folder also exists that can be placed in your uktemplate folder and edited.

I do not think that I missed any of your comments...

[angelicdezigns]

Yippeeee, thanks so much Kobra, I understand now.

Phewwww I was mighty slowww to pick it up though. I am learning new things every day, and thanks to your patience and excellent explanations I have been even more determined, as quite a few times I have just wanted to give up, as I really couldnt get my head around it.

I am sure a complete newbie like myself will come along one day, and this thread will be extremely helpful.

I really appreciate the time you have taken out to explain this to me, I would have never ever understood it if it wasnt for you.

Take care
Kind Regards
Nikki