Question about overrides
By thomaszeevalking on Monday, 08 February 2016
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Hello,

I just installed JEvents to see if it fits my needs for a website I'm making. So far I like it a lot but there's ont thing I don't understand and that the overriding system. I want to override the the JEvents Latest module. I don't want it to display it as a "table" but as a "ul". After a bit of searching I found an article under FAQ (my account is not approved to post links?). However this only talk about how to make an override for one of the themes but I want to override the default one. In that article they say to change for example /mod_jevents_latest/geraint/latest.php
class GeraintModLatestView extends GeraintModLatestView

to:
class OverrrideGeraintModLatestView extends GeraintModLatestView

So, for the default one I would expect that editing the /mod_jevents_latest/default/latest.php. However there is only
class DefaultModLatestView

I tried changing it to:
class OverrideDefaultModLatestView

When I edit something in this page it doesn't seem to change anything. Am I don't something wrong? Help would be really appreciated.

Gr, Thomas
Hello Thomas,

The problem is you are override the default theme which is a little more complex.

You would use the Geraint one for example, and set it to OverrideGeraintModLatestView

And it should be placed in:

/templates/your_template/html/mod_jevents_latest/geraint/

Many thanks
Tony
tonyp
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Monday, 08 February 2016 14:47
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Hi,

Thanks for the quick response!

Is there a way to override the default theme?

Gr, Thomas
thomaszeevalking
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Monday, 08 February 2016 15:29
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Hello Thomas,

You can yes. Just copy the Geraint calendar.php and rename is as default where it says Geraint.

As the Default contains the majority of the code which we extend from for the other layouts.

Many thanks
Tony
tonyp
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Monday, 08 February 2016 19:40
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Could you explain a bit more on how to override the default latest.php because I cannot seem to get it working. You're talking about thet Geraint calendar.php file but I cannot find that.

Thanks!
thomaszeevalking
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Monday, 08 February 2016 23:24
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It's the same principle as most Joomla! overrides.

Copy:

/modules/mod_jevents_latest/tmpl/geraint/latest.php

to:

/templates/your_templates/html/mod_jevents_latest/default/latest.php

Edit latest.php

Change:

class GeraintModLatestView extends DefaultModLatestView

to:

class OverrideDefaultModLatestView extends DefaultModLatestView


And it should work.

Many thanks
TOny
tonyp
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Tuesday, 09 February 2016 00:17
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