2 ZC templates - how do I have 2 on one site?

Hi,

Just to clarify having 2 ZC templates on the 1 ZC install. I have a custom folder and a custom2 folder. I have the custom2 folder under each custom folder and not inside 1 another of course.

Now on templates i have the choice of template custom or custom2. It picks it up ok but changing the relavant css file isn't easy. I am not getting all changes being picked up . That is another thread.

Is this how you have many templates on the 1 install though?

You have differant templates simply by having the differant templates in their own folders.

The css files should be in each template folder.

So it sounds like you have it all correct. Try changing one stylesheet.css to custom.css and make sure you search the template folder for any referance to stylesheet.css and change it that referrance to custom.css as well.

I'd like to hear what happens so come back in here and let me know.

Hi,

I thought to change the styleshet.css you just edit that file. Since i also changed some of the default tags in how they worked, i couldn't just add a new set of tags etc.
You said change the stylsheet.css to custom.css, so how does it know to override that name with the deafult stylesheet.css. I thought it would look for stylesheet.css?

I change the stylesheet.css to custom2.css. It just picks up the stylesheet in the other template folder custom.

I can't have 2 templates on ZC without interfering as the overrides don't work for css.
I have

/includes/templates/custom/stylesheet.css //picks up when custom2 template is loaded?
/includes/templates/custom2/stylesheet.css //doesn't pick up unless unique tags not in other styleheet

The overrides will work for multiple templates if you have set everything up correctly.
As you have done a lot of custom coding, it may be possible you have disabled some part of the override functioning. (And don't ask me how because I can't possibly know!: )
Or perhaps something is just not quite in the right place or named correctly.

Wel I don't know about the custom coding as most pages are just new pages. Other files that displayed stuff were just made to display different stuff with different file names.
I avoiding changing files and just added different files for display as i didn't want to rewrite original files. As problem might occur.

My changes eg css style were just styling issues not working at all. Eg tagline div was made to display the color blue on a heading on my custom template but i changed this to red on custom2. Blue came up even if i changed the css style in custom to red. The header file had just stayed the same throughout (same files being called as original ) and i couldn't change the style on that.

The setup looks ok. Maybe i will need to look at a new install and alter that and try again with another template. I was always a little uneasy about having 2 templates on the 1 install but maybe this can be fixed.

If you have added completely new pages, perhaps there is a place they need to be referenced so the overrides "know" to work...
DrByte will be able to answer that.

I did add completely new pages but that wasn't the problem For example the tpl_header is the same which calls 'my header' for the whole thing with its own tags. Now I couldn't change that?

I did change the original stylesheet.css witha few cosmetic things. I will need to try a new install to see if i get the same error with small changes and 2 templates.

Actually it is supposed to be possible to use a custom tpl_header.php or tpl_main_page.php on a single page. (Read the comments at the top of one of those files.) However, I have tried it and it didn't work for me... I think I remember reading that something else had to be done to get those overides recognized, but can't remember what.

Every file under the /includes/templates folder is overridable.
Just follow the pattern.
There are lots of tutorials out there explaining it in different ways.

I have another thread which has ended up similar to this.
I think i have found the problem.
You shouldn't alter default tags much or delete code that isn't needed instead of commenting it out.
Although the changes i did were minor, it isn't working so i am redoing it . So far so good.

Sorry Mex, I don't agree. There's nothing wrong with stripping out code your site doesn't use or altering default tags to suit your site's needs - in fact I'd recommend it, as it makes your template easier to understand and maintain.

But all this needs to be done to over-ride files in the right structure. The symptoms that you have described suggest that it is your site structure that's not quite right for your two templates, but there's not really enough information here to be able to see what's wrong with it.

Hi,

I don't know what the hell i did. It is fri 13th and it started acting odd and i can't seem to find the error. The overrides seem in the right place and a gave the dir structure.

NOw what i did was redo my site. I did alter tags a lot and even deleted ones I didn't use, as well as from code. I deleted code i didn't use either from some parts but it all worked fine until fri 13th when i had another template to add ( a backup of the 1st).

I made a more sensible approach to editing adding my own tags and making small changes to default ones. I can also add another template with it mostly finished with no problems as i am testing all the way. Just copying and pasting where i need to or editing.

Maybe this was a better way to go anyway.