I've been reading a few tutorials, and also a book where they explain how to override, create and manipulate themes, so far so good, however all of them just address how to create layouts for custom modules with a different name, here is my situation:
I created a module name "Customer" under a package named "MyCompany" so the path for the code would be :
\app\code\local\MyPackage\Customer
I found a few collision issues that I was able to address with the help of the config.xml file for the module, however I've been unable to determine where should I place my layout and folder for the given theme as
app\design\frontend\MyPackage\default\layout\customer.xml
Is already used by the module that comes with magento, I have not intention of manipulate the core files, I was wondering if there is away to have a different name for the layouts, templates etc or if the only work around would be a name change for my module.
Best Answer
In your module config.xml, you can define the layout file that must be used.
ref: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/30/introducing-magento-layout/