I'm currently writing an extension for my site in which I use Joomla! I'm now stuck on my info pages in which different kind of information about a movie is separated into different views/menus. I thought about putting the templates all in the same folder and only using one view.html.php to have the minimum of duplicate code. My structure looks like this:
I want the default_menu.php to be included in alle templates, that's why I thought that this would be the best practise.
But Joomla searches the folder with the name of the view that is called in the fronted. e.g. www.site.net/com_component&view=car would look for the folder /views/car/ And that's the point where I'm stuck. How can I tell Joomla to look at one folder for different view names? And is this the best practice or Should I still separate the templates in different folders even though I would have a few view.html.php containing pretty much the same code? And of course I still have to include the menu in every template.
