如何在我的自定义magento模块中覆盖media.phtml？

Question

I am working on a custom module which takes product images from external server. I have overridden a few functions to get the required result.

But I have to override base/default/template/catalog/product/view/media.phtml inside my custom module.

I tried to do this from default/layout/MY_MODULE.xml but that did not work for me.

How do I override the media.phtml inside default/MY_MODULE .

Answer 1

I think calling setTemplate method is not the right way to override template file in your case. For me it looks a bit redundant and unclear: you are assigning template to block and the immediately reassign it with action. I would do this way:

<catalog_product_view> 
    <reference name="product.info"> 
        <block type="catalog/product_view_media" name="product.info.media" as="media" template="MY-MODULE/catalog/product/view/media.phtml" />
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

I think you could also reference to product.info.media directly and call setTemplate action there