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Mastering Magento Theme Design

You're reading from   Mastering Magento Theme Design Magento is the super-capable open source e-commerce platform that's number one for a reason. By using this book to optimize your know-how, you'll be acquiring the ultimate in e-tail expertise for yourself and your clients.

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Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783288236
Length 310 pages
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Mastering Magento Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Introducing Magento Theme Design 2. Creating a Responsive Magento Theme with Bootstrap 3 FREE CHAPTER 3. Customizing Our Custom Theme 4. Adding Incredible Effects to Our Theme 5. Making the Theme Fully Responsive 6. Making the Theme Socially Ready 7. Creating a Magento Widget 8. Creating a Theme Admin Panel 9. Customizing the Backend of Magento 10. Packaging and Selling the Theme Conclusions and Credits Index

Integrating the code in the product page


Let's suppose that we want to add the code only in the product page. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to your theme folders and create a file called addthis.phtml in app/design/frontend/bookstore/default/template/social.

  2. Paste the copied code, as mentioned in the previous section, in the file and save it.

  3. Now, we need to open the local.xml file and find the <catalog_product_view> product view handle (for your reference, this handle is defined first inside the catalog.xml file of the base theme in app/design/frontend/base/default/layout) and inside it, in <reference name="content">, add the following code that will declare a core/template block to be displayed on the product page:

    <reference name="content">
    <block type="core/template" name="socialsharing" template="social/addthis.phtml" before="-" />
    </reference>

    Now, open the file of the product page, view.phtml, located in app/design/frontend/bookstore/default...

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