How would I, in my theme plugin, edit the layout of the ‘topbar’ in Elgg?
OR, as another example, the users profile page?

I have a question for you then – Without this knowledge, I have gone ahead with a dev version an elgg install and I’ve just set about tearing the default view apart in order to change colours etc.

This is horrid though and I need to keep things in their own seperate space.

The thing that confuses me is the number of plugins and modules that are installed (extra ones too), all seem to have their own seperate views to edit.

Even just editing the default view meant trawling through hundreds of folders and files in order to fine the right file to edit the pages appearance.

I’ve found this process very offputting.

If I am building my theme as a plugin, how do I test it thoroughly? How can see all the possible pages of the site and work out if my theme is working its magic in all the right places?
Will *all* my theme files be neatly within my plugins folder?

It would be nice if there were some official ‘themes’ (literally, just ‘design’ themes, not content themes necessarily available to view) and I think once there is one available, it should helpe people to understand.

Thanks
Andreas

Overloading is done based on file location.

The core has a view hierarchy under /views/**

The plugin also has a view hierarchy under /mod/myplugin/views/**, which the engine then merges into /views/** in memory at runtime.

So, if in a plugin you have a file /mod/myplugin/views/default/whatever.php it will replace at runtime the file /views/default/whatever.php from core.

The engine doesn’t currently flag when this has happened, it just replaced.

Make sense?

However there is a little detail that maybe could be confusing for some people (like me ).

It is, how the “overwrite” view method works?

For example in the groups plugin you can see:

extend_view(“profile/icon”,”groups/icon”);

and if you check the code at profile/icon you can see some code that uses $vars["overwrite"]. How defines if its the extension overwriting or not a view?

Thanks a lot.

A new tool to work with!

Thanks