Thanks Stephen

I think it runs straight off the Joomla Homepage, basically I set home in the "main menu" of joomla to the component of virtuemart.

If you wish to go and have a look for yourself you're more than welcome.

www.shop.27twelve.com

I am new to both joomla and virtuemart so I get a bit confused as to what exactly is happening.



I am very grateful for your help.

Graeme

Hi Graeme,

Here's how to get template1 ONLY on the front page, and template2 everywhere else.

1 - set the default template to template2 (the one for the "rest of the site")
2 - make a new MetaTemplate rule.
3 - use the following PHP in the main PHP box on the left:

$vm = JomGenius("virtuemart");
if ($vm->check("pagetype = frontpage")) return true;

4 - in the SUCCEED action, use the dropdown to select template1
5 - save the rule

That should do it :-)


In this way, the rule detects if you are on the standard VM frontpage, and returns "true" (makes the rule succeed). Then the succeed action runs, which sets the template. If the rule fails, then nothing happens and the default template is used.

Cheers,
Stephen