I have posted this issue on the magneto Forums but haven't herd anything in two weeks so I'm going to post here and hopefully get a little more insight
"I have been going through the forums and working out how to change the view for one product, and I found a good post on the forums that let me change the view like I want but my page seems to be created from two seperate files. One called view.phtml in app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product and another called default.phtml in the same path just down two more directories view/type/. The Code I need to modify is in default.phtml but when i do that and set it to display that it stops displaying the other half of the page or the view.phtml part.
I am using ....
<reference name="product.info">
<action method="setTemplate">
<template>catalog/product/view/type/default1.phtml</template></action>
</reference>
...in the custom layout section of the product in the backend. But this only shows the sizing section of the page and not the name/description/picture witch is output by view.phtml
So how do I get view.phtml to display the new default1.phtml
and if I try.....
<reference name="product.info">
<action method="setTemplate">
<template>catalog/product/view.phtml</template>
</action>
</reference>
it works but does not show default1.phtml in the size section. All this because I need to show 2 different size charts one for males and one for females. You can see my issue by going to mysteryhousecostumes.net and navigating to a womans product and then a mans and you will see the mens products still link to the womens size chart.
How do I fix view.phtml so that it links to default1 instead of default? I realize I’ll need to make a duplicate view.phtml but I cant find the connection between the two files here is my view.phtml…
<?php $_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output'); ?>
<?php $_product = $this->getProduct(); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var optionsPrice = new Product.OptionsPrice(<?php echo $this->getJsonConfig() ?>);
</script>
<div id="messages_product_view"><?php echo $this->getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml() ?> </div>
<div class="product-view">
<div class="product-essential">
<form action="<?php echo $this->getSubmitUrl($_product) ?>" method="post" id="product_addtocart_form"<?php if($_product->getOptions()): ?> enctype="multipart/form-data"<?php endif; ?>>
<div class="no-display">
<input type="hidden" name="product" value="<?php echo $_product->getId() ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="related_product" id="related-products-field" value="" />
</div>
<div class="product-shop">
<div class="product-name">
<h1><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getName(), 'name') ?></h1>
</div>
<?php if ($this->canEmailToFriend()): ?>
<p class="email-friend"><a href="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/product')->getEmailToFriendUrl($_product) ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Email to a Friend') ?></a></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php echo $this->getReviewsSummaryHtml($_product, false, true)?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('alert_urls') ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_type_data') ?>
<?php echo $this->getTierPriceHtml() ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('extrahint') ?>
<?php if (!$this->hasOptions()):?>
<div class="add-to-box">
<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('addtocart') ?>
<?php if( $this->helper('wishlist')->isAllow() || $_compareUrl=$this->helper('catalog/product_compare')->getAddUrl($_product)): ?>
<span class="or"><?php echo $this->__('OR') ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('addto') ?>
</div>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('extra_buttons') ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($_product->getShortDescription()):?>
<div class="short-description">
<h2><?php echo $this->__('Quick Overview') ?></h2>
<div class="std"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, nl2br($_product->getShortDescription()), 'short_description') ?></div>
</div>
<?php endif;?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('other');?>
<?php if ($_product->isSaleable() && $this->hasOptions()):?>
<?php echo $this->getChildChildHtml('container1', '', true, true) ?>
<?php endif;?>
</div>
<div class="product-img-box">
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('media') ?>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
<?php if ($_product->isSaleable() && $this->hasOptions()):?>
<?php echo $this->getChildChildHtml('container2', '', true, true) ?>
<?php endif;?>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var productAddToCartForm = new VarienForm('product_addtocart_form');
productAddToCartForm.submit = function(button, url) {
if (this.validator.validate()) {
var form = this.form;
var oldUrl = form.action;
if (url) {
form.action = url;
}
var e = null;
try {
this.form.submit();
} catch (e) {
}
this.form.action = oldUrl;
if (e) {
throw e;
}
if (button && button != 'undefined') {
button.disabled = true;
}
}
}.bind(productAddToCartForm);
productAddToCartForm.submitLight = function(button, url){
if(this.validator) {
var nv = Validation.methods;
delete Validation.methods['required-entry'];
delete Validation.methods['validate-one-required'];
delete Validation.methods['validate-one-required-by-name'];
if (this.validator.validate()) {
if (url) {
this.form.action = url;
}
this.form.submit();
}
Object.extend(Validation.methods, nv);
}
}.bind(productAddToCartForm);
//]]>
</script>
</div>
<div class="product-collateral">
<?php foreach ($this->getChildGroup('detailed_info', 'getChildHtml') as $alias => $html):?>
<div class="box-collateral <?php echo "box-{$alias}"?>">
<?php if ($title = $this->getChildData($alias, 'title')):?>
<h2><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($title); ?></h2>
<?php endif;?>
<?php echo $html; ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach;?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('upsell_products') ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_additional_data') ?>
</div>