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    copied!<p>I've mucked around a bit with this and I've tried all kinds of different values from various sites and a couple e-books on the subject. The total lack of any semblance of consistency has made this more difficult than I feel it should be.</p> <p>Basically I cannot get it to use <code>content.phtml</code> to override the <code>content</code> section in the main template. I have done it by forcing it through the controller like so:</p> <pre><code>$content = $this-&gt;getLayout()-&gt;createBlock(...); $this-&gt;getLayout()-&gt;getBlock('content')-&gt;append($content); </code></pre> <p>But I feel this makes my module inflexible, and makes parts of the configuration redundant and misleading.</p> <p>I am using a block called <code>Company_AdvSearch_Block_Results</code> which extends <code>Mage_Core_Block_Template</code>.</p> <p><strong>File: config.xml</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;config&gt; &lt;modules&gt; &lt;Company_AdvSearch&gt; &lt;version&gt;0.1.0&lt;/version&gt; &lt;/Company_AdvSearch&gt; &lt;/modules&gt; &lt;frontend&gt; &lt;routers&gt; &lt;advsearch&gt; &lt;use&gt;standard&lt;/use&gt; &lt;args&gt; &lt;module&gt;Company_AdvSearch&lt;/module&gt; &lt;frontName&gt;advsearch&lt;/frontName&gt; &lt;/args&gt; &lt;/advsearch&gt; &lt;/routers&gt; &lt;layout&gt; &lt;updates&gt; &lt;advsearch module="Company_AdvSearch"&gt; &lt;file&gt;advsearch.xml&lt;/file&gt; &lt;/advsearch&gt; &lt;/updates&gt; &lt;/layout&gt; &lt;/frontend&gt; &lt;global&gt; &lt;blocks&gt; &lt;advsearch&gt; &lt;class&gt;Company_AdvSearch_Block&lt;/class&gt; &lt;/advsearch&gt; &lt;/blocks&gt; &lt;/global&gt; &lt;/config&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>File: advsearch.xml</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;layout version="0.1.0"&gt; &lt;advsearch_index_index&gt; &lt;reference name="head"&gt; &lt;action method="setTitle"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;/reference&gt; &lt;reference name="root"&gt; &lt;action method="setTemplate"&gt; &lt;template&gt;page/2columns-left.phtml&lt;/template&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;/reference&gt; &lt;reference name="content"&gt; &lt;block type="advsearch/results" name="advsearch" template="advsearch/content.phtml"/&gt; &lt;/reference&gt; &lt;/advsearch_index_index&gt; &lt;/layout&gt; </code></pre> <p>So:</p> <ol> <li>How would I get it to actually update the <code>content</code> section of the layout?</li> <li>How would I update other parts (i.e. <code>left</code>) using my module so they can access the same data?</li> </ol> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>I've run into yet another issue. After inserting this block, the referenced components successfully disappeared.</p> <pre><code>&lt;reference name="left"&gt; &lt;remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar"/&gt; &lt;remove name="left.reports.product.viewed"/&gt; &lt;remove name="catalog.product.related"/&gt; &lt;/reference&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now, after commenting this block and even deleting the file from the server, I can't get those parts to come back on this page. It seems to be disregarding the XML file entirely (both normal caching and compiler caching are disabled).</p>
 

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