Magento – Base – Default – Rwd

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In my App folder -> /public_html/app/design/frontend, there are 3 folders, base, default, rwd. Can someone give me help on what these folders are for? I know RWD stands for Responsive Web Design, but what are the differences in the three base folders? Default has my template theme, so I would assume, I would edit in there? But besides that, I'm not entirely sure what each folder is supposed to be for?

Thanks for the help

Best Answer

These are the three default packages Magento comes with. Each package can have multiple themes installed inside. If no theme is explicitly set it will use the default theme inside whichever package you are using. I'll do a brief rundown of each package below.

Base - This folder has all the template and layout files Magento needs to run. Think of it like the core codepool. You generally don't want to touch the base folder outside of adding in folders from extensions.
Default - This is the default theme for Magento. Any files here override the base folder and Magento will use template files from here (if you are using the default theme) where they are available.
RWD - This is the alternate default theme which works much the same way Default does but has the feature of being responsive. You'll use one or the other.

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Magento – magento CE 1.9 responsive theme error

If you pop open the app/design/frontend/rwd/default/layout/catalog.xml file you'll find this:

76. <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" after="currency" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml">
77.     <block type="core/text_list" name="catalog.leftnav.state.renderers" as="state_renderers" />
78. </block>

As you can see, there is an added block state_renderers which the template the PHP error is turning up in is relying on being present. Now, it would have been much better for this template to verify the result to the getChild() call was not null before doing anything with it, but unfortunately it doesn't. Maybe the handful of places this occurs in the new rwd/default templates will have this resolved in the next version of EE 1.14. :)

I would suggest making sure your catalog.xml layout includes the new child blocks found in the core. If you have other blocks using this template, they'll need a similar child block inserted into their layout.

Alternatively, you could alter the template within your custom theme to implement a check for the block before it uses it like this (disclaimer: this patch is untested, use at your own risk):

diff --git a/app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/catalog/layer/state.phtml b/app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/catalog/layer/state.phtml
index 0b90407..e8998fd 100644
--- a/app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/catalog/layer/state.phtml
+++ b/app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/catalog/layer/state.phtml
@@ -33,16 +33,17 @@
 ?>
 <?php
 $_filters = $this->getActiveFilters();
-$_renderers = $this->getParentBlock()->getChild('state_renderers')->getSortedChildren();
+$_renderers = $this->getParentBlock()->getChild('state_renderers');
 ?>
 <?php if(!empty($_filters)): ?>
 <div class="currently">
     <p class="block-subtitle"><?php echo $this->__('Currently Shopping by:') ?></p>
     <ol>
     <?php foreach ($_filters as $_filter): ?>
+        <?php if ($_renderers != null): ?>
         <?php
         $_rendered = false;
-        foreach ($_renderers as $_rendererName):
+        foreach ($_renderers->getSortedChildren() as $_rendererName):
             $_renderer = $this->getParentBlock()->getChild('state_renderers')->getChild($_rendererName);
             if (method_exists($_renderer, 'shouldRender') && $_renderer->shouldRender($_filter)):
                 $_renderer->setFilter($_filter);
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ $_renderers = $this->getParentBlock()->getChild('state_renderers')->getSortedChi
             <span class="label"><?php echo $this->__($_filter->getName()) ?>:</span> <span class="value"><?php echo $this->stripTags($_filter->getLabel()) ?></span>
         </li>
         <?php endif; ?>
+        <?php endif; ?>
     <?php endforeach; ?>
     </ol>
 </div>

Magento1.9 – Changing the Default Theme

Create a new directory in app/design/frontend and in skin/frontend. And in those new directories, create one more folder, name it as default and copy required files within default folder.
Go to System->Configuration->Design. Give the name of newly created directory as package name. Save it. You may need to clear cache. And you should see that custom theme in front end.

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