Ecommerce developers with Magento

Last week I had a request to add new custom layout for few cms pages in one Magento shop. It’s really useful for different static pages of your shop. First create extension with only config file in it: app/code/local/Inchoo/AdditionalCmsPageLayouts/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
 <global>
  <cms>
   <layouts>
    <custom_static_page_one>
     <label>Custom static page 1</label>
     <template>page/custom-static-page-1.phtml</template>
    </custom_static_page_one>
   </layouts>
  </cms>
 </global>
</config>

Then activate it: app/etc/modules/Inchoo_AdditionalCmsPageLayouts.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
 <modules>
  <Inchoo_AdditionalCmsPageLayouts>
   <codePool>local</codePool>
   <active>true</active>
  </Inchoo_AdditionalCmsPageLayouts>
 </modules>
</config>

Add your page/custom-static-page-1.phtml template file (or copy some default one for start) and you’re done There is also tutorial about this on Magento Wiki. However i don’t like approach of duplicating and overriding Mage files from /local, if it can be avoided, so i decided to write this small and useful example of adding or overriding default Magento settings through separated config files. And yes, Magento values can be overridden this way. Default layouts config can be found in app/code/core/Mage/Cms/etc/config.xml along with used xml code structure, so check it out. Thank you for listening!

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