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[syahzul Friend syahzulJoin date: October 2006Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#167802

i would like to suggest T3 developer to add override template parameters. at the moment, the config.xml and params.xml is fetch from /plugins/system/jat3/core/admin/ and there’s no way (as far as I test) we can override these files. for example, i want to remove some settings from the page, or maybe i want to add additional values to existing fields, all i ca do is hack the JAT3 system plugin which is not a good idea.

so i would like to suggest something like this:

file: /plugins/system/jat3/core/admin/index.php

before:
$configfile = dirname(__FILE__).DS.’config.xml’;

suggestion:
$userConfig = JPATH_ROOT . DS . ‘templates’ . DS . $template . DS . ‘core’ . DS . ‘config.xml’;

if (JFile::exists($userConfig)) {
$configfile = $userConfig;
}
else {
$configfile = dirname(__FILE__).DS.’config.xml’;
}

before:
$paramsFile = dirname(__FILE__).DS.’params.xml’;

suggestion:
$userParams = JPATH_ROOT . DS . ‘templates’ . DS . $template . DS . ‘core’ . DS . ‘params.xml’;

if (JFile::exists($userParams)) {
$paramsFile = $userParams;
}
else {
$paramsFile = dirname(__FILE__).DS.’params.xml’;
}

this way, we can override the params easily.

i hope T3 dev can implement this (or maybe using some other technique) so template developers like myself and extend the template parameters without having to hacking the T3 core.

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1. n6rej

[n6rej Friend n6rejJoin date: November 2006Posts: 1040Downloads:0Uploads:63 Thanks: 79 Thanked: 145 times in 90 posts]

#408535

I’ve passed this along to the powers that be.

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1. syahzul

[ricosala Friend ricosalaJoin date: June 2011Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#410742

This is an interesting over ride as I have found the templating system a little hard to work with. Do you recommend we implement these changes?

[syahzul Friend syahzulJoin date: October 2006Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#410743

i really hope T3 dev implement this so we can customize which parameter we want to show / hide from end users.

[n6rej Friend n6rejJoin date: November 2006Posts: 1040Downloads:0Uploads:63 Thanks: 79 Thanked: 145 times in 90 posts]

#410940

Can you give an example of which params you’d like to override? Also, I’d not recommend using DS as its deprecated. afaik

[syahzul Friend syahzulJoin date: October 2006Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#410947

noted about the DS.

about the parameters, if you take a look the Profile tabs, sometimes I want to hide the Google Font API Settings from end-user (the one who will use the template). because changing the fonts might break the template. or maybe I want to hide the User Tools setting section completely from end-user.

T3 is a good framework for template developers, but the parameters page slightly overkill for end-user. so if we can override the parameters, we can hide some section that we don’t want to show to end-user.

just my few cents 🙂

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