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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Overview of this book

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Understanding jdoc statements


Any Joomla! template will need to insert content managed by Joomla! into your website. This is done with the jdoc statements in the Joomla! template.

Getting ready

Open the index.php file of the rhuk_milkyway template, which is located in the templates\rhuk_milkyway directory of your Joomla! installation.

How to do it...

Each "block" of content within Joomla! is inserted with a different jdoc statement within the index.php file. There are four fundamental statements that we'll look at:

  • Component jdoc statements

  • Head jdoc statements

  • Module and modules statements

Component jdoc statements

Component jdoc statements insert the main content for the current component into your Joomla! template. You can insert the primary page content for a particular page in Joomla! with this jdoc statement, within the<body> element of your page:

<jdoc:include type="component" />

Simple! This statement ensures that any page title and content associated with the page is inserted...