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sergio
sergio

Reputation: 307

Customizing joomla template (category, single, etc.)

It's possible to customize the template for different types of content... for example, on homepage: 1 column, on category listing: 2 columns, on single article: 3 columns. In Wordpress it's quite easy, modifying home.php, category.php, single.php.

With what conditionals I can accomplish this in Joomla 1.5?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 982

Answers (2)

giraff
giraff

Reputation: 4711

If only one column contains the real content (componenent/article) you could also work with collapsible module positions. Like this:

<?php if($this->countModules('left')) : ?>
    <div class="left_column">
        <jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="xhtml" />
    </div>
<?php endif; ?></code></pre>

Then the presence or absence of modules in this column will determine the layout.

Upvotes: 0

Jeepstone
Jeepstone

Reputation: 2601

You can conditionally display modules on a page by page basis (based on menu item). You can also assign completely different templates to each page. Furthermore, you can do things like 

$option = JRequest::getCmd('option');
$view = JRequest::getCmd('view');

within your index.php and change the page based on the view/component.

Joomla's templating is excellent, with a lot of flexibility.

Upvotes: 1

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