Magento custom theme to default theme redirection issue

Question

First of all I am explaining settings and scenario of my magento.

1. I have add a link ‘go to form’ on product view page and call my custom controller on click.

2. I add following code in my controller.

   public function indexAction()
   {
     $this->loadLayout();
     $block = $this->getLayout()->createBlock(
                 'Mage_Core_Block_Template',
                  mycompany.mylink,
                  array(
                  'template' => mycompany/mylinkform.phtml'
                   )
            ) ->setData('varNameOne', 1')
              ->setData('varNameTwo', 2');
   
     $this->getLayout()->getBlock('content')->append($block);
     $this->_initLayoutMessages('core/session');
     $this->renderLayout();
   }
   

3. On frontend, theme is look like custom theme. If I start template path I can see path like: frontend/default/theme name/..
4. But on backend theme name is set as ‘Default’.

Now, issue is: ‘go to form’ is open in custom theme which has a path like frontend/default/theme name/template/.... But when I click on this link, my form is open in default theme which has a path like frontend/default/default/template/…

So why this is happening? When I click on link, my form must open in custom theme but I will redirected to default theme and open over there.

I have add .phtml file of form in both the theme.

Please help me on this.

This is a back end theme setting.

Answer 1

This is because mycompany/mylinkform.phtml is not present or misconfigured in your custom theme.

In order to use mycompany/mylinkform.phtml from your custom theme, you need to ensure two things.

1. In the Admin side, you need to set current theme as your custom theme. For the sake of illustration, I am calling theme name as custom_theme

2. Then you need to put your phtml template at app\design\frontend\default\custom_theme/mycompany/mylinkform.phtml.

Note :- Here I assume, package is default.

So make sure that file does exist in your custom theme. Clear all cache and then try again.