Any help for a rookie in training

[desertdog]

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2823 I have looked at this and im not quite sure how its installed. If anyone can jot down a few notes on how to do this please help. Also if its important i use dreamweaver.

TY

[GraphicsGuy]

For most contributions the best way to do it is:

 

1. Make backup copies of all of the affected files in your store.

 

2. Make a backup of your database.

 

3. Use a tool like WinMerge (free, google it) to apply the changes to your files.

 

4. Use phpMyAdmin or any other mySQL front end supplied by your web hosting provider to apply any database changes.

 

5. Test everything. If it isn't working, you have the option of restoring your back copies.

 

An even better adaptation of this is to do all installations on a test storefirst. The test store can either be in an alternate location on your web server (if you are allowed more than one database), or it can be on your PC if you have installed Apache, PHP & mySQL on it. The test store should be identical to the live one. Then if it works as expected, you can just copy the altered files up to your live store and run the database update query on the live database.

 

hth

[desertdog]

Ok cool, this thing had a html linked icon in the d/l, and the others were file folders, So i didn't know if their was something special/