You're reading from Joomla! 4 Masterclass A practitioner's guide to building rich and modern websites using the brand-new features of Joomla 4

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238975

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Luca Marzo

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Joomla! Out of the Box

2. Chapter 1: A Powerful and Extensible Core FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How to Manage Content

4. Chapter 3: Advanced Content Management

5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Flexibility of Modules

6. Chapter 5: Building Your Site Structure: the Menu System

7. Chapter 6: Managing Users and Their Permissions

8. Part 2: Advanced Features

9. Chapter 7: SEO at Its Best

10. Chapter 8: One Site, Multiple Languages

11. Chapter 9: Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks

12. Chapter 10: Tailored Communication with Mail Templates

13. Chapter 11: Command-Line Interface

14. Part 3: Styling and Securing Your Website

15. Chapter 12: Styling Your Website – Templates

16. Chapter 13: Customize Everything with Overrides

17. Chapter 14: Child Templates

18. Chapter 15: Template Frameworks

19. Chapter 16: Advanced Features – Access and Security

20. Part 4: Case Studies

21. Chapter 17: Case Study – A Corporate Website in Joomla

22. Chapter 18: Case Study – Online Academy with Joomla

23. Chapter 19: Case Study – A B&B Booking System with Joomla

24. Index

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What is an override?

As we saw in the previous chapter, the appearance of your website highly relates to how the template is structured and styled. Sometimes you may want to customize how a specific part of the website looks, going beyond the options offered by the template style in use. Overrides help with that, allowing you to completely customize the appearance of your website through PHP, to make your website fit your styling requirements. Furthermore, overrides make you work on a copy of system files, without altering the original files, ensuring you have the opportunity to start from scratch in case of issues or when you change the template and, more importantly, preventing software updates from overwriting your changes.

Basically, with overrides, it’s possible to completely rewrite all the views in Joomla, tailoring the appearance of any component or module output for your website.

What is a view?

A view is the PHP file that defines the appearance of the output...