Question

We’re redoing our theme in Magento to use a grid system (semantic.gs), and I’ve been tasked with the duty setting up the PDP page to use this new grid system template. We eventually will want this template on all pages, but for now, it’s been specifically requested ONLY on the PDP page. So basically I want to set a custom theme/template (including header and footer, not just columns) that I can load on certain pages. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to go about doing this? Extensive SO and google searching has come up pretty fruitless.

So far:

I created a new layout called 2columns-left-grid.phtml in app/design/frontend/[my_interface]/[my_theme]/template/page

I modified these lines:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('header') ?>

and

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer') ?>

To be:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('header2') ?>

and

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer2') ?>

I duplicated header.phtml and named it header2.phtml, and duplicated footer.phtml and named it footer2.html

My questions:
Will this work, and if so, what other code do I need to modify (xml files, etc)
How can I get this template to apply ONLY to the PDP page for now?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello you can override product tag

< catalog_product_view translate=”label”>

/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/catalog.xml

from into your new module layout xml