find template files to adjust

[jaok]

Hi there!

I'm new to Magento and just getting into it really, so I am hoping to find help here.

I would like to do some adjustments on our webshop which was set up by another company, but I can not find the files (templates) which I have to work on. I did this

grep -r "copyright 2013-2016" *

and the files I found (e.g. "mage---464_CONFIG_GLOBAL_STORES") were contained in subfolders (mage--0, mage--1, ...) of "home/git/htdocs/var/cache".

Is it possible to make changes in one single file?

---Magento Version 1.9.1.0---

Thanks a lot in advance.

Jan

[Sinisa]

If you want to change copyright message in the footer, just log into Magento Admin, and go to:

System -> Configuration -> Design -> Footer -> Copyright.

There you can update footer message. Don't forget to clear the cache (System -> Cache Management -> Flush Cache Storage) or just delete content of var/cache/* directory.

[jaok]

Awesome, thanks for the quick response Sinisa. That helped me.

The thing is that I am looking for a way to understand the structure all in all. How can I track down the elements I see on the page in the folder structure and the files. Are the Magento templates generally adjustable in the backend or are there elements I would have to rewrite in the template files?

[Sinisa · Accepted solution]

You can enable template hints if you want to see how particular page is composed from different blocks and templates, and everything together glued with layout. Check:

http://help.sweettoothrewards.com/article/434-how-do-i-turn-on-template-path-hints

But I'm not sure that it will be that helpful to you; instead, you should get familiar with block/template/layout concepts in Magento1, for example:

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/magefordev/mage-for-dev-4.html

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/custom-layouts-and-templates-with-magento--cms-21419

[jaok]

Cheers for that! The intro is probably exactly the right thing to get me going.