Question

I’m trying to do something very basic: edit a small part of the category product pager template. I copied pager.phtml from .../base/default/template/page/html/ into my own theme’s template/page/html folder and changed what I needed changed in the new file. Unfortunately, nothing is changed on the frontend.

I’ve tried enabling “Template Path Hints” and it definitely shows my custom template being loaded. When I blank out my theme’s pager.phtml, all the content stays (as if its still loading the default template). When I edit the default template, still nothing changes! Ah ha! It must be cached…

But I’ve got the caches disabled (its a development site) and tried refreshing them all anyway. Nothing changes. I’ve edited many a template on this site and they’ve all worked as expected, its only pager.phtml that is giving me trouble.

If anyone could point me in the right direction or even toss a few more debugging ideas my way, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If your caches are off, and you editing the base/default package/theme has no effect, it sounds like you are editing the wrong file …

By chance is it a 1.3 template on a 1.4 build – as the pager set-up changed between the two versions and would lead to peculiar issues like you are describing.

Have you tested overriding another .phtml file to see if it actually works (ie. if you have set it up correctly).

Finally, caching being the last resort, have you got APC/Eaccelerator installed with the mtime/stat parameter set to false? As this would ignore the file modified time and serve up data directly from its internal cache. An Apache/PHP restart would prove this.

Verify by running

php -i | grep mtime
php -i | grep stat

Or by creating a test phpinfo(); file