Magento 1 – Overriding Footer in local.xml

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I have a footer in my page.xml of my parent theme and here's it's code

            <block type="page/html_footer" name="footer" as="footer" template="page/html/footer.phtml">
            <block type="page/html_wrapper" name="bottom.container" as="bottomContainer" translate="label">
                <label>Page Footer</label>
                <action method="setElementClass"><value>bottom-container</value></action>
            </block>
            <block type="page/switch" name="store_switcher" as="store_switcher" template="page/switch/stores.phtml"/>
            <block type="page/template_links" name="footer_links" as="footer_links" template="page/template/links.phtml"/>
        </block>

I want to override it in my local.xml by changing the template .phtml file, I did that

        <reference name="footer">
        <action method="setTemplate">  
            <template>page/html/herzone_footer.phtml</template>
        </action>
    </reference>

It's not taking any change effect, am I doing something wrong? thank you

Best Answer

Looks right. Check the following:

did you add this code within the default handle?
is your theme really active (design > theme > default and/or design > theme >layout)?
did you clean the cache?

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So the answer is that it should not be an observed event. Here is how I got it to work, in the config.xml I needed to update the adminhtml node.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<config>
  <modules>
    <Wsu_NewtworkSecurities>
      <version>0.1.0</version>
    </Wsu_NewtworkSecurities>
  </modules>
  <adminhtml>
    <layout>
      <updates>
        <wsu_newtworksecurities>
          <file>newtworksecurities.xml</file>
        </wsu_newtworksecurities>
      </updates>
    </layout>
  </adminhtml>
</config>

and in

app\design\adminhtml\default\default\layout\wsu\newtworksecurities.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <feildset>
        <reference name="head">
            <action method="addJs">
                <script>wsu/newtworksecurities/newtworksecurities.js</script>
            </action>
        </reference>
    </feildset>

    <adminhtml_index_login>
        <update handle="feildset" />
        <reference name="form.additional.info">
            <block type="wsu_newtworksecurities/feildset" name="newtworksecurities.feildset"
                   template="wsu/newtworksecurities/feildset.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </adminhtml_index_login>

    <wsu_newtworksecurities_error_index>
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="core/template" name="newtworksecurities.error" template="wsu/newtworksecurities/error.phtml"/>
        </reference>
    </wsu_newtworksecurities_error_index>

</layout>

Magento – Override Page module in magento

page.xml is an already existing layout XML. Please rename to, for example, easylifepage.xml.

But since you're only doing minor layout tweaks might I suggest using the local.xml in favour of your own extension just to include a layout xml. This will eliminate the need for creating your own extension.

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