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Hi, I would nest a template in the Smarty's {block} tag.

I have a default template, called "Automotive default", with an empty footer block.

inside template "Automotive default" I put: I also have made a template called "footer inner page" with some HTML inside.

Hence, I made a page template called "Inner page" that should extend "Automotive default", inserting the template "footer inner page" inside the "footer" block .

template: "Inner page" How do I insert the template "footer inner page" here? Is this a right way to use the new template's management of cmsms 2.x?


Thank you

You are confusing different terms: extending VS including.
To extend a template you need to understand inheritance. Including a template is the closest there is to the old use of Global Content Blocks. And for that you don't need blocks, you just include another existing template by using {include file='cms_template:footer inner page'}. If you really want to use template inheritance you should start by reading the Smarty docs on the Smarty site. Inheritance is closely related with objects inheritance in programming, in that a template that extends another, inherits all the parents properties, and adds or overrides some of it's parents properties, keeping a designer from re-writing the same basic template over and over again...

http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/advanced. ... itance.tpl

http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/introducing-cmsms-2-0

BTW template inheritance and inclusion have always been there, are Smarty features. We just optimized the way CMSMS uses these features.

Jo, thank you very much for your explanation.

My goal was to have a default template with an empty footer, then have other templates that extend the default one overriding the {block name='footer'}{/block} with the appropriate footer (this is a semplification as the templates are more complex).

Now it works.

By the way, is there any difference between
{include file='cms_template:footer inner page'}
and
{include file='template:footer inner page'}

nervino wrote:By the way, is there any difference between
{include file='cms_template:footer inner page'}
and
{include file='template:footer inner page'}

Yes: both are CMSMS template resources registered in Smarty, although the template has been deprecated and will eventually be removed.