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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => Templating & Layouts => Topic started by: jchungerford on March 26, 2015, 00:46:18 AM

Title: Using Template Overrides
Post by: jchungerford on March 26, 2015, 00:46:18 AM
Hi,

I am a brand new user of Virtuemart and have just installed 3.0.6.2 on a J3.4.1 system.  I am currently married to a T3 Framework template (not made for virtuemart but responsive with newest BS3) that outputs the bare bones install just fine.  My question is this:

I am trying to find a way to fast track the design of the shop portion of the site and was wondering if I were to get another template which is built upon the same T3 framework and specifically designed for VM3, is it conceivable and/or possible to just create a template override for the Non-VM3 template with the php/css of the VM3 template since they are both using the same Framework?

Perhaps I am just overthinking this whole thing and can just get a responsive template and set the shop settings to use this one instead of main site default template?  I'm just new to this and am a bit confused and am not trying to spend more money than is necessary on templates, etc.

Any assistance or advice is greatly appreciated before I get started on this project.
Title: Re: Using Template Overrides
Post by: jenkinhill on March 31, 2015, 23:12:14 PM
You can take the default VM templating system and make overrides as required, add in some display specific css and it works OK. You really don't need the overheads of a framework, but that's your choice.

http://docs.virtuemart.net/tutorials/templating-layouts.html