TemplatesBuilt-in tool · Melis CMS

The layouts behind every page

A template is the skeleton of a page — header, footer, columns, and the zones where editors are allowed to drop content. Define a layout once and reuse it across hundreds of pages.

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melis — Templates
The template manager listing available page layouts
Defines zonesWhere blocks go
ReusedAcross pages

Part of

Melis CMS

Type

Built-in tool

Back-office

CMS › Templates

Defines

Layout + zones

Set up by

Developers

Reused

Across pages

Overview

Structure, defined once

A template decides a page’s overall structure: the header, the footer, the columns, and the drop zones an editor can fill. You pick a template when creating a page.

Templates tie a friendly name to an actual layout (the .phtml that produces the HTML), so editors choose a layout by name while developers own the markup.

Key features

The skeleton every page is built on

Set up once by developers, picked by name, reused across hundreds of pages.

Page layouts

The header/footer/columns skeleton every page is built on.

Content zones

Each template exposes the drop zones where editors place blocks — the zones drive what’s droppable.

Friendly name → code

Map a readable template name to its controller/.phtml so it’s pickable in the page editor.

Reused across pages

Set up once, applied to hundreds of pages; change the template, change them all.

Per-site templates

Each site exposes its own set of templates via module loading.

Zones, not pages

If a page lacks a zone to drop into, change the template’s zones rather than the page.

See it in action

Name it, map it, expose its zones

Editing a template ties a friendly name to a layout and the zones editors can use.

Templates › Edit
Editing a template — name, type and the code it maps to
ReusedAcross pages
Define

Name it, map it, expose its zones

Editing a template ties a friendly name to a layout and declares the zones editors can use.

  • Add a new layout
  • Expose new drop zones
  • Map the template to its .phtml

For developers

How it's wired

Controller

ToolTemplateController runs the template manager.

Form factory

MelisCmsTemplateSelect populates BO selects from live engine data.

Read a template

MelisEngineTemplateService::getTemplate($tplId) — cached.

// Read a template definition (cached, via the engine):
$tplSvc = $sm->get('MelisEngineTemplateService');
$tpl = $tplSvc->getTemplate($tplId);

// A page binds to a template via its tpl_zf2_* columns
// (website folder / controller / action / layout).

Part of Melis CMS

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Lay out your pages once

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