rearrange layouts of two templates

Question

I am new to magento. I installed "perfume" theme from magento connect. I want to rearrange two templates in the home page which have names as follows:

• frontend\base\default\template\page/template/links.phtml
• frontend\base\default\template\page/switch/languages.phtml

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To do so, I created a local.xml file in app/design/frontend/default/perfume/layout directory structure and added the following code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
    <default>
        <reference name="root">
          <remove name="footer_links"/>
          <block type="page/template_links" name="footer_links" as="footer_links" template="page/template/links.phtml" before="store_language"/>
        </reference>
    </default>
</layout>

But still I can't see any change in the frontend. What could be the reason?

Answer 1

If you take a look at app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/page.xml on line 105 you'll find the footer_links that you are referencing. This one is wrapped in the block footer (line 99)

So that means that the root reference should actually be footer.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
    <default>
        <reference name="footer">
          <remove name="footer_links"/>
          <block type="page/template_links" name="footer_links" as="footer_links" template="page/template/links.phtml" before="store_language"/>
        </reference>
    </default>
</layout>

As far as I can tell the only thing you've changed is the before attribute. Although I haven't tested it you could try and do something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
    <default>
        <reference name="footer_links">
            <action method="setAttribute"><key>before</key><value>store_language</value></action>
        </reference>
    </default>
</layout>

But again, I'm not 100% sure that works so let me know if you try it.