Include external HTML file in TEXT_MAIN

[steff]

I've been trying to add a (e-mail list) form to my text_main filed, but it won't work.

 

Alternative 1:

To add a file called form.html with some kind of php include.

Tried to add <?php include("menu.inc"); ?> between my <td> and </td> in text_main, but the html file never got included. No error msgs.

 

Alternative 2:

To add the HTML code to text_main field. This returns an error (se code below).

 

My text main code in index.php:

 

define('TEXT_MAIN', '
<table width="465" border="0">
 <tr>
   <td class="main">

 I have tried to add it here, but then it outputs "TEXT_MAIN"

   </td>
 </tr>
</table>
');

 

Form to add:

 

<form name="txtlist" action="./index.php" target="txtlist" method="get" onSubmit="JavaScript:window.open('','txtlist','width=300,height=150,toolbar=no,status=no,resizable=no')">
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#efefef" style="border: #dedede 3px double;">
<tr><td>
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="sub">
<input type="text" name="email" value="email address" size="20" maxlength="100" onFocus="if (this.value=='email address') this.value=''" onBlur="if (this.value=='') this.value='email address'">
<input type="submit" name="sub" value="subscribe">
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>

 

I tried putting a \ in front of all ' -but that didn't work.

 

Any ideas for how I can make this work?

[Wendy James]

Are you adding this to the language file, or directly onto the index.php?

[♥Vger]

Place your html file in the root level. Then make this change to your root level php file:

 

<td class="main"><?php include ('newpage.html'); ?></td>

 

Don't forget to remove the call to the file at the 'languages' level, in the head section of your root level php file e.g.

 

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_DEFAULT);

 

Vger

[♥bruyndoncx]

if you need some thing more flexible, this contribution has examples and explains how to include html as well as create popup windows in a multi-language setup:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ch,include+html

[steff]

Are you adding this to the language file, or directly onto the index.php?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

to the language file .. catalog/includes/languages/english/index.php