New to osCommerce

[Guest]

Hello all

 

I am new to osCommerce and have been reading forums for two days, spent the whole morning reading the tutorials in Dreamweaver (my brain is about to explode). This has led to a number of questions that I would like to ask and hopefully someone can answer for me.

 

1. How do I link osCommerce to a website I already created in Frontpage?

2. Is there a step by step guide as to what I need to do to get my site information, specifically my products?

3. What are common mistakes people make when setting up osCommerce?

4. When doing the the Dreamweaver tutorials I create a couple pages from scratch and could view the pages in design mode, when I open the pages (or php files???) in Dreamweaver from osCommerce I can not see anything in design mode. Can anyone tell me why?

5. Does anyone have soem tylenol? >_<

 

Thanks in advance for all the help

 

Bruce

[RikR]

1. you could just put a link on your page to your store.

 

2. I recommend you download the file here and read it:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2565

 

3. browsing this forum will probably give you some ideas. It is actually pretty foolproof if you follow the instructions.

 

4. You can not view php files as you can html files.

php files have to run on your server that is running php.

[Guest]

1. you could just put a link on your page to your store.

 

2. I recommend you download the file here and read it:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2565

 

3. browsing this forum will probably give you some ideas. It is actually pretty foolproof if you follow the instructions.

 

4. You can not view php files as you can html files.

php files have to run on your server that is running php.

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RikR......Thanks a bunch

[Jack_mcs]

Hello all

 

I am new to osCommerce and have been reading forums for two days, spent the whole morning reading the tutorials in Dreamweaver (my brain is about to explode). This has led to a number of questions that I would like to ask and hopefully someone can answer for me.

 

1. How do I link osCommerce to a website I already created in Frontpage?

2. Is there a step by step guide as to what I need to do to get my site information, specifically my products?

3. What are common mistakes people make when setting up osCommerce?

4. When doing the the Dreamweaver tutorials I create a couple pages from scratch and could view the pages in design mode, when I open the pages (or php files???) in Dreamweaver from osCommerce I can not see anything in design mode. Can anyone tell me why?

5. Does anyone have soem tylenol? >_<

 

Thanks in advance for all the help

 

Bruce

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1 - If you just link the html and php pages, you will cause yourself problems. OSC uses what are called session ID's (SID's). These keep track of your visitors and keeps them logged in. If you don't call the links properly, the SID's are lost and the visitor becomes signed out, probably gets aggravated and leaves your site. It is a common desire to be able to keep coding in FP or DW when switching to OSC. This is, IMO, a mistake. The most you can use them for is as an editor and there are much better php editors out there for free.

 

3 - See number 1.

 

4 - See number 1.

 

Jack