GlobalHandle

Adds a new Global Handle to layouts to override anything as a final layout directive

Magento's default layout loading order is as such:

 default
 STORE_bare_us
 THEME_frontend_default_default
 helloworld_index_index
 customer_logged_out

The issue is that there is no 'last' global layout handle that allows you to make a change to any previous layout directive.
An example of such a requirement is to have the ability to globally change all the root templates

This module simply injects a new layout handle as the last layout handle called

<GLOBAL_OVERRIDE>

Using this, it is, for example possible to override all page layouts to one base template, as apart from having to refer to eache handle seperately.

<GLOBAL_OVERRIDE>
    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/3columns.phtml</template></action>
        <action method="setIsHandle"><applied>1</applied></action>
    </reference>
</GLOBAL_OVERRIDE>

This then effectively makes the entire site 3columns, and no page is accidentally missed, and display in the wrong column structure.

The following handles are also now injected:

CMS_<PAGE_NAME>  : example CMS_about_us<br/>
CATEGORY_<name>  : example CATEGORY_best_sellers<br/>

DYNAMIC HANDLE

Inject a new handle based on the given GET or POST variable called 'dynamic' An example would be to inject a new handle to display a custom registration page In this example we called it 'slim'

/customer/account/create/dynamic/slim/ is the url used

which will inject a new handle called : slim_dynamic_handle which you can target via layout xml:

<slim_dynamic_handle translate="label">
    <update name="customer_account_create"/>
    <label>Customer Account Slim Registration Form</label>
    <!-- Mage_Customer -->
    <remove name="right"/>
    <remove name="left"/>
    <remove name="header"/>
    <remove name="footer"/>
    <reference name="head">
        <action method="addCss"><stylesheet>css/slim.css</stylesheet></action>
    </reference>
    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
    <reference name="customer_form_register">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>customer/form/slim.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
</slim_dynamic_handle>

The end result of the above would be a scaled down version of the account registration, with its own template file, css etc

Another example would be to add a new field (example a coupon field) to the registration form:

/customer/account/create/dynamic/coupon/ is the url used

then in local.xml you can use:

<coupon_dynamic_handle translate="label">
    <update name="customer_account_create"/>
    <reference name="customer_form_register">
        <block type="customer/form_register" name="form.additional.info" template="customer/form/fields/coupon.phtml"/>
        <remove name="inchoo_socialconnect_register"/>
    </reference>
</coupon_dynamic_handle>

which will inject the template customer/form/fields/coupon.phtml into the registration form

The template itself would simply the the field:

<li class="fields">
    <div class="field">
       <label for="email_address" class="required"><em>*</em><?php echo $this->__('Enter Coupon') ?>
       </label>
 
       <div class="input-box">
            <input autocomplete="off" placeholder="<?php echo $this->__('Enter Your Coupon Here') ?>" type="text"
                   name="coupon" id="coupon"
                  value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getFormData()->getCoupon()) ?>"
                  title="<?php echo $this->__('Coupon') ?>"
                  class="input-text required-entry"/>
       </div>
   </div>
</li>

Fixes Category Layout Handles

ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20249894/magento-1-7-how-to-use-the-page-layout-handle Will now inject the category handle, allowing you to target teh category via its own layout handle as set in admin

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