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Hi. At the moment, the only thing that gets displayed in the title bar of my browser is "osCommerce". How do I change it to the name of my site, or even better, to be reflective of the category or product on the current page?

Thank you very much.

Bruce

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From page 68 of the osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Documentation

 

Browser Text

 

The top left of the browser window shows the name osCommerce. This

can be altered to your site's name in

catalog/includes/languages/english.php on approximately line 48.

// page title define('TITLE', 'osCommerce');

But I think a better solution overall is to install the

Header Tags Controller contribution because it will also dynamically generate all of the header tags.

Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database.

Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.

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Thanks. I downloaded that an hour ago and I'm reading the installation instructions. I'm at this point:

2 - copy the included database_setup.php file to your root directory

(where your index.php file is located). Then open your browser

and type in http://www.yoursite.com/database_setup.php (substitute

your url of course). You should delete this file from your site

once you have updated the database successfully.

 

My index.php is in the catalog folder of my root directory. Do I install this file as:

http://www.yoursite.com/database_setup.php

or

http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/database_setup.php

 

Also, this is not a new install. Should I still do this step?

 

Thank you

Bruce

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You will still need to run this. But definitely do a database backup first. (Open your admin, go to Tools > Backup and do a backup, no need to download it for this.)

 

Put it in your catalog directory and then the URL to access it would be:

 

http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/database_setup.php

Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database.

Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.

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You will still need to run this. But definitely do a database backup first. (Open your admin, go to Tools > Backup and do a backup, no need to download it for this.)

 

Put it in your catalog directory and then the URL to access it would be:

 

http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/database_setup.php

 

Hi. Thanks so much. Now I'm at this point:

 

However **** DO NOT **** use the files in that directory

if your shop has been altered by previous contributions. Doing so will

most likely break it.

 

I have the register_globals patch installed. Will this still work?

 

Thanks again,

Bruce

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You wouldn't do well to just replace the files with the ones from the contribution. But, then that doesn't work for 9 out of 10 contribution installations since they are rarely being applied to an unmodified store.

 

What I would recommend is using a file compare utility such as WinMerge (free download, Google it if you don't already have it) to apply the changes to your files. I don't think there should be any collisions between the two contributions within the files so it should go smoothly.

 

When things get tricky is when two contributions deal with the same function within a file (i.e. One I've never been able to reconcile is the SPPC contrib and the Quantity Price Breaks one because they both alter the pricing display code.) But you shouldn't run into anything like that with this merge.

Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database.

Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.

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You wouldn't do well to just replace the files with the ones from the contribution. But, then that doesn't work for 9 out of 10 contribution installations since they are rarely being applied to an unmodified store.

 

What I would recommend is using a file compare utility such as WinMerge (free download, Google it if you don't already have it) to apply the changes to your files. I don't think there should be any collisions between the two contributions within the files so it should go smoothly.

 

When things get tricky is when two contributions deal with the same function within a file (i.e. One I've never been able to reconcile is the SPPC contrib and the Quantity Price Breaks one because they both alter the pricing display code.) But you shouldn't run into anything like that with this merge.

 

 

Hi. Thanks agan. Actually, as I'm now looking, there aren't ANY identical files shared between the two patches. So I think it should work....

Thanks again,

Bruce

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In that case it should go pretty smooth just replacing files (as long as there weren't any other contributions).

 

I would still make sure you have good file and database backups before proceeding. Just to be safe.

Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database.

Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.

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Okay. It's installed and seems to be working.

One question though. I need an apostrophe in my title, but it's displaying the \ as well. How do I get it to display the apostrophe, without the slash?

Thanks again,

Bruce

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That's odd. As an alternative you could use the html decimal code for the apostrophe.

 

This is kind of hard to demonstrate here in the forum because it wants to interpret it and just display the apostrophe. Even declaring it as code doesn't stop it. So I am putting a space between & and #, but to use it you would not have a space between them.

 

So in the place where you want the apostrophe you would place & #039; without the space in it.

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Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.

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I haven't personally experienced that problem but there is a good chance that somebody else has. I just did a few forum searches but the keywords I came up with were two general and resulted in an overwhelming number of results.

 

What I would suggest, is going to the support thread for the Header Tags Controller contribution and start at the end of it (page 37 :o ) and search backwards. One tip for fast searching pages of posts quickly. Once the page has loaded press [CTRL] {F} on your keyboard. In the dialog box, enter a keyword that pertains to your interest, in this case you might try "category" or "categories". This way you can skip through the page rapidly looking for pertinent information.

 

If you don't find anythng similar there, then posting the issue there will probably get a good response from people more experienced with trouble shooting that contribution. For me it worked first time out of the gate, but that was a lot of versions ago.

 

hth

Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database.

Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.

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