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Electric-dsctc
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Hello ,
I’m new to Magento, but already loving it smile.
I have read the designers guide and browsed through the forum but there still a lot of things I don’t get !

For instance...I was messing around with the defaut/layout/page.xml file and the template/page/html/header.phtml . I saw that on header.phtml the top menu is called with <?=$this->getChildHtml('topMenu')?>

and that on page.xml there is a “ <block type="core/text_list" name="top.menu" as="topMenu"/>" wich I think is what’s actually being called on the header page with getChildHtml

The thing is that if I change that name as="topMenu" for something else...say “topMenu_something” , or if I even delete that line, the menu is still showing..I don’t get how , I searched through the project and there is no other xml file that has the as="topMenu" reference....
Maybe I got it all wrong? ‘cos makes no sense grrr

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Go to menu entry: Admin > System > Cache Management, and make sure that all are Disabled when you are developing or making changes to config or layout files.

Alternatively you could Refresh all cache every time you’d like to see your updates.

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wow--that was fast!…
Thanks!

 
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