How to overloading / overriding an existing back-office template

[Soufyan Amenzou]

Hi everybody,

 

I would like to overloading or override a back-office template.

 

The template is this one : admin170/themes/template/controllers/products/prices.tpl

 

In my modules I put my tpl file in thhis location => my_module/override/controllers/admin/templates/products/prices.tpl

To test my tpl file, I put only few code

[/font][/color]
[color=#000080][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif][/font][/color]
[color=#000080][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]{extends file="products/prices.tpl"}

{block name="after"}
<p style="color:red;text-align:center;">Block after : add a text after the form</p>
{/block}

 

I saw this example in confluence documentation prestashop 1.5 => http://doc.prestasho...office+template

But I got nothing even if I uninstall and reinstall my module

 

For information I managed to override the AdminProductsController.php.

How ? In my module I create file in this location => my_module/override/controllers/admin/AdminProductsController.php which extend AdminProductsControllerCore

 

Now I'm trying to override a tpl file.

 

I hope my topic is clear,

Best regards.

 

Soufyan

Edited January 16, 2013 by soufyan (see edit history)

[daur88]

Hello,

 

You should uninstall and reinstall your module again, because prestashop copies everything, located in moduleName/override folder into prestashop/override. So ultimately your prices.tpl file must be placed in prestashop/override/controllers/admin/templates/products.

 

 

UPD

Sorry, but my first post was little bit misleading. Prestashop copies only php files located in moduleName/override. So you should have put your prices.tpl right into prestashop/override/controllers/admin/templates/products and not into your module's override folder.

Edited January 18, 2013 by daur88 (see edit history)

[lucster88]

daur88: your answer is quite right, but just to develop your module so that chnages can take effect immediatly.

 

But when you then have to install the module, the tpl-files should also be copied to the right place, and this is where the problem is.

 

Hope for changes from Prestashop team.

[luchiniii]

Hello I'm trying to override prestashop15\site-admin\themes\default\template\controllers\orders\_customized_data.tpl

 

and I have copied it into this path:

prestashop15\override\controllers\admin\templates\orders\_customized_data.tpl

 

but I can't see any changes, could please tell me the right way to do this?

[Daniel - PrestaBR]

up

[marcis]

Same problem here!

[Enrique Gómez]

Have you tried disabling the cache?

[marcis]

Yes

[Enrique Gómez]

You are right, I have the same problem with tpl begining with _. So I'm digging a little and those templates are included in another parent tpl. In the case of _customized_data.tpl is the orders/helpers/view/view.tpl

 

I think you must override view.tpl and then change in some way

{include file='controllers/orders/_customized_data.tpl'}

 

 

Edit: It'worked for me. But i had to put _customized_data.tpl in the same folder of view.tpl and use

{include file='./_customized_data.tpl'}

 

Edited April 3, 2013 by egomezpe (see edit history)

[Enrique Gómez]

I've forgot to mention that you can use ../ to go to parent directory. And most important, i've lost the translations of the administration orders page (now i see them in english). But it seems to be a general problem when overwriting admin templates.

[Daaaaad]

I have the same problem.

 

The solution from Enrique Gómez is working but could we have the feedback from Prestashop ?

[Rolige]

Just a comment for prestashop team, because the problem with the override files on the back office is still there in the latest versions.

[cikcak]

Same problem.. So only one way to override view.tpl and change path of __ file?

[mcdado]

I copied the files view.tpl and _product_line.tpl, changed the path as described above in view.tpl.

It works, but to make things nicer I had to implement this method in my module:

    private function installCustomTemplates()
    {

        $this->custom_templates = array(
            'override/controllers/admin/templates/orders/helpers/view/view.tpl',
            'override/controllers/admin/templates/orders/helpers/view/_product_line.tpl',
        );

        $success = true;
        foreach ($this->custom_templates as $ct) {
            $destination = _PS_ROOT_DIR_.'/'.$ct;
            $custom_template = $this->local_path.$ct;

            // @TODO: this should be improved by adding ability to report errors
            if (!Tools::file_exists_cache($destination) && Tools::file_exists_cache($custom_template)) {
                $template_directory = dirname($destination);
                if (!Tools::file_exists_no_cache($template_directory)) {
                    $success = $success && @mkdir($template_directory, 0755, true);
                }
                $success = $success && @copy($custom_template, $destination);

                do {
                    if (Tools::file_exists_cache(_PS_ROOT_DIR_.'/config/index.php') && !Tools::file_exists_cache($template_directory.'/index.php')) {
                        $success = $success && @copy(_PS_ROOT_DIR_.'/config/index.php', $template_directory.'/index.php');
                    }
                    $template_directory = dirname($template_directory);

                } while (strlen(_PS_ROOT_DIR_) < strlen($template_directory));

            }
        }
        return $success;
    }