Customize Layouts

Sometime, you might want to customize layout of some pages in Events Booking to meet your requirement. Some notes below should be helpful to you if you have to do that:

Customize CSS

If you want to add any css code to the extension, don't modify the css file directly. Go to Events Booking->Configuration, look at Custom CSS tab, add any custom css code you want there Custom CSS editing.

If you don't see Custom CSS tab, please go to Extensions -> Plugins, find and publish the plugin Editor - CodeMirror, after that, the tab will be available.

Customize layout

If you want to customize the layouts in the extension, please use Template Override so that it won't be lost when upgrade your site to newer version of the extension. Below are detailed instruction for common layouts which you might want to customize:

  1. If you want to customize the Calendar page, take a copy of the file components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/calendar/default_calendar.php, place it to PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/calendar folder and do any customization from there.
  2. If you want to customize the events list page, depend on the layout you are using (default, table, timeline, columns), you will need to get a copy of one of the file (events_default_layout.php, events_table_layout.php, events_timeline_layout.php, events_columns_layout.php) in folder components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/common, place it to PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/common folder, then do any customization you want in that file
  3. If you want to customize the event detail page, take a copy of the file components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/event/default.php, place it to PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/event folder and do any customization from there.
  4. If you want to customize the registration form (individual registration, group registration, cart registration)page, take a copy of all the fields in components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/register folder, place it to PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/register folder and do any customization from there.
  • For Individual Registration Form, the starting file is components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/register/default.php
  • For Group Registration Form, the start file is components /com_eventbooking/themes/default/register/group.php . Each part of the registration form is from different file: components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/register/number_members.php, components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/register/group_members.php, components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/register/group_billing.php
  • If you are using shopping cart, the start file is components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/register/cart.php2
  1. If you want to customize the email layouts, the main file is components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/emailtemplates/email.php, it contains basic css and basic email layout structure. Each registration type has it own email layout:
  • For individual registration, the file is components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/emailtemplates/email_individual_detail.php
  • For group registration, the file is components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/emailtemplates/email_group_detail.php
  • For shopping cart, the file is components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/emailtemplates/cart.php

Once the change is done, copy the modified files to PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/emailtemplates folder.

  1. If you want to customize frontend event submission form, depends on the the layout you are using (configurable in Events Booking -> Configuration, Themes tab, Frontend event submission form layout config option:
    • If you use Simple layout, take a copy of the file components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/event/simple.php, place it to PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/event folder and do any customization from there
    • If you use Default layout, take a copy of one of the follow files form.php, form_discount_settings.php, form_fields.php, form_general.php, form_group_rates.php, form_misc.php, form_recurring_settings.php from components/com_eventbooking/themes/default/event/ folder, place it inside PATH_TO_YOUR_SITE_TEMPLATE/html/com_eventbooking/event folder and do any customization from there