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[joomla] com_contact - Can't locate the "Site Contact" file (Joomla 1.7)

David Roth davidalanroth at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 17:59:19 EST 2012


I got it solved. Thanks so much for your insight into this, Donna!

I totally missed the override with this. This explains why it wasn't
picking up any changes.

Best regards,

David

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Donna Marie Vincent
<donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Your template can have optional overrides.  Check to see if there is one in
> the "html" folder of your template.
>
> Also, do NOT modify the files in the core components, use the template
> overrides.  When you apply an upgrade patch, these files will be
> overwritten.
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:06 PM
> Subject: [joomla] com_contact - Can't locate the "Site Contact" file (Joomla
> 1.7)
>
> Hopefully this is something I've overlooked and some kind soul here
> will point this out to me.
>
> I'm trying to look at the source code PHP files for "Site Contact"
> which is part of com_contact.
>
> The Joomla com_contact component files of interest are located in:
> components/com_contact/views/category/view.feed.php
> components/com_contact/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php
>
> So I went to the Joomla com_contact to edit
> components/com_contact/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php which
> appears to have all that's displayed on the web page such as
> grid.sort, etc. But even if I remove this file, it has no effect on
> "Site Contact" page it still loads!
>
> If I remove components/com_contact/views/category/view.feed.php, that
> certainly breaks the page, but nothing in
> components/com_contact/views/category/tmpl has an effect on it.
>
> What am I overlooking? Thanks!
>
> David Roth
> _______________________________________________



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