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Override a package block view from within another package

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I would like to override a packages block view from within my own theme.
For example Vivid Simple Accordion

I have added a view file to packages/theme_name/blocks/vivid_simple_accordion/view.php

but this is not overriding packages/simple_accordian/blocks/vivid_simple_accordion/view.php

I take it i'm doing something wrong I'm guessing it has something to do with the path of the view.php within my theme package.

Any help would be appreciated :-)
 
mnakalay replied on at Permalink Reply
mnakalay
Hello,

You can't override a block's view from your theme.

What you can do is assign a template to that view by default.

To do so you need to create your block's template (which is just a modified copy of the view) and add it in packages/simple_accordian/blocks/vivid_simple_accordion/templates/template_handle/view.php

Then, to make sure that block uses that template every time, you need to go to your page_theme.php and add

public function getThemeDefaultBlockTemplates()
    {
        return [
            'vivid_simple_accordion' => 'template_handle',
        ];
    }


In this example, the template is inside a folder using the template handle as name. This is usually done if your template has more than just the view.php (JS files, CSS...)

If on the other hand your template only has the one PHP file, then you can do it like this

packages/simple_accordian/blocks/vivid_simple_accordion/templates/template_handle.php
And in page_theme.php

public function getThemeDefaultBlockTemplates()
    {
        return [
            'vivid_simple_accordion' => 'template_name.php',
        ];
    }


One last thing to keep in mind, the template will not apply to blocks already added to your pages. It will only apply to blocks you will add AFTER adding this code.

Hope this helps.