ezwebin: Multiple domains and different designs for each

Thursday 27 September 2007 7:53:50 am

Hi

I'm developing a site for a client, and the site uses the ezwebin extension.

I have followed the instructions from http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/overriding_the_ez_web_interface_ezwebin_with_custom_designs to create a new design for the ezwebin extension.

Now I've run into trouble: The site needs 3 new "sub sites", i.e. 3 different domains and 3 different designs.

My initial idea was to create 3 new copies of the extension, create 3 new siteaccess', each pointing to different RelatedSiteAccessList, SiteDesign and so forth...

I added each of the copies to ExtensionSettings in settings/override/site.ini.append.php . But the last line before ActiveExtensions[]=ezwebin always overrides the other ones.

How do I go about using the ezwebin extension with 3 different designs, one for each domain?

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Sunday 06 January 2008 2:39:09 pm

>I added each of the copies to ExtensionSettings in settings/override/site.ini.append.php.
>But the last line before ActiveExtensions[]=ezwebin always overrides the other ones.

You shouldn't need to create a extension for each design, but it doen't really matter since the moste important part is that all the 3 designs have their own design name.

settings/siteaccess/page1/site.ini.append.php:

[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=page1_design
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=ezwebin
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=base

Extensions structure:

extension
| -ezwebin
| -design_extension
| | -- design
| | | --- page1_design
| | | | ---- images
| | | | ---- stylesheets
| | | | ---- templates
| | | --- page2_design
| | | | ---- images
| | | | ---- stylesheets
| | | | ---- templates
| | | --- page3_design 
| | | | ---- images
| | | | ---- stylesheets
| | | | ---- templates
| | -- settings

But there is another problem though, you need to override pagelayout to stop using the template_look / site settings class. Since it's far from multisite safe!

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Sunday 06 January 2008 3:09:57 pm

I'll answer that myself: yes you are saying just that!

I created a folder as you suggested and put one file inside its template-folder, namely pagelayout.tpl, and changed the template look object by changing the array-number mentioned in my earlier post of this thread..

Sweet Moses, this works! Hopefully css and layout will both play nice when overriding this way. I haven't tested much yet, but all this makes me wonder what's the use of this article anyway:

http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/overriding_the_ez_web_interface_ezwebin_with_custom_designs

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Monday 14 January 2008 6:28:26 am

No prob. You should also check out my new guide. After searching all over the forum for bits and pieces on how to do a multiple site installation I decided to write all my experiences in one place;

http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/valentin_s_multisite_guide_v_1_example_uses_ezp_v_3_9_4

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