I am making new plugin for Oxid E-shop. In my metadata file, description, title, logo, works perfectly and I can see plugin in backend, but when I activate plugin, nothing in frontend is changed. Blocks aren't overwritten.
/modules/myModule/metadata.php
'blocks' => array(
array(
'template' => 'layout/footer.tpl',
'block' => 'footer_main',
'file' => '/views/blocks/layout/footer.tpl'
)
I have just simple example in footer for now.
/modules/myModule/views/blocks/layout/footer.tpl
[{block name="footer_main"}]
<div class="footer-base">Schuberth test !</div>
[{/block}]
Location of template that should be overwritten: /application/views/azure/tpl/layout/footer.tpl
it should actually work, at least with versions >= 4.8
Check if your block entry was saved in database table oxtplblocks.
Sometimes OXID does not update cached metadata after you added new entries to metadata.php, in this case try to increase module version.
Also check your file names for typos.
If everything is there and correct, you should post the full code and tell us your shop version.
Opening oxtplblocks table in database discovered me a bug, OXMODULE column has lenght 32 characters, and my module ID/directory name was longer, so rest of name was cut off.
I found on other source that module id shouldn't be longer than 20 characters.
Sometimes it happend that you need to clear the cache (tmp). this works for me most the time.