Add script tag to magento layout.xml

Question

I'm currently developing a eCommerce system with Magento. I have my footer called as <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer') ?> and my layout.xml has following tags to define the 'footer'

<reference name="footer">
  <block type="page/footer" name="footer">
    <action method="setTemplate">
      <template>page/html/footer_home.phtml</template>
    </action>
    <action method="setTemplate">
      <template>muaw/footer_script.phtml</template>
    </action>
  </block>
</reference>

footer_home.phtml is the actual footer and footer_script.phtml is a file with <script> tag for some jquery. My problem is that adding the second set of <action> tags for footer_script.phtml replace the actual footer. Is there any other way to get both files?

Since footer will always show in site, and u have script in <script> tag right, it means its js file, no php code right? so, just add <action method="addJs"> <script>js/custom-script.js</script> </action> and put that js in js folder. — Niraj Jani, Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 12:15
good idea. but i don't think that is the best practice. thanx anyway. — Janaka Dombawela, Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 12:43
You're calling two times the setTemplate() method on the page/footer block. This does not make any sense because that block can only have one template, not two. Calling the method twice with a different tamplate parameter therefore renders one of them useless. Therefore it's obvious for whatever what you've tried to do, you've used the wrong tool. — hakre, Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 13:32

RichTea · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-25 14:15:09Z

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You don't need to set two templates for the footer. Just refrence your phtml file like so...

<reference name="footer">
    <block type="page/footer" name="footer">
        <action method="setTemplate">
            <template>page/html/footer_home.phtml</template>
        </action>
    </block>
    <block type="core/template" name="footer_script" template="muaw/footer_script.phtml"/>
</reference>

answered Mar 25, 2015 at 14:15

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Aivoris · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-25 14:26:52Z

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You should add footer_script.phtml to

<reference name="before_body_end">

answered Mar 25, 2015 at 14:26

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