Which Layout is used where?
This article refers to the deprecated v2.5 layouts - it is due to be revised to treat the j3.2 style layouts. However the principles are the same. Layouts control how jDownloads shows Categories and Downloads on the front end. They are very flexible and allow customising in a simple and practical manner. Broadly speaking
This use from multiple layouts gives flexibility and consistency to the actual views on the front end. |
There are six Layout classes:
and each layout has four parts:
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Which Layout is used depends upon how the view was called. When showing Download Details, Summary or Search views then it is quite straight forward:
When viewing Categories and Downloads then:
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Showing Categories & Downloads When progressing down the structure after starting with say a List All Categories then the layout parts used come from different layouts as illustrated opposite.
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Colin Mercer, April 2015