index.php problem

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

Hi,

I finally thought I knew a little. I started making progress on changing the text on the first page of my store. It was working fine. I at this point was only changing text not any of the codes.

Then after many changes and checking to see if it was working - and it was - I changed a small portion of the text in the stream below. All I changed was the text that says Change text The only part I changed was Change text (not the codes before or after it). This had worked earlier higher up on the page.

</td></tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/2.gif') . '</td><td class="main" valign="top">Change text The text shown here can be modified in the following file, on each language basis: [path to catalog]/includes/languages/' . $language . '/' . FILENAME_DEFAULT . ' That file can be edited manually, or via the Administration Tool with the <nobr

When I went back to view my store it came up with this error message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13

Can anyone tell me how to fix my error?

Thanks so much.

April

MartinM · February 17, 2006

All I changed was the text that says Change text

What did you change it to?

Eden · February 17, 2006

Hi,

I finally thought I knew a little. I started making progress on changing the text on the first page of my store. It was working fine. I at this point was only changing text not any of the codes.

Then after many changes and checking to see if it was working - and it was - I changed a small portion of the text in the stream below. All I changed was the text that says Change text The only part I changed was Change text (not the codes before or after it). This had worked earlier higher up on the page.

</td></tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/2.gif') . '</td><td class="main" valign="top">Change text The text shown here can be modified in the following file, on each language basis: [path to catalog]/includes/languages/' . $language . '/' . FILENAME_DEFAULT . ' That file can be edited manually, or via the Administration Tool with the <nobr

When I went back to view my store it came up with this error message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13

Can anyone tell me how to fix my error?

Thanks so much.

April

"parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13"

Copy all the code from the page you have edited and find line 13, then can you paste line 13 here and I may be able to help you (I think you had the same error I did)

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

"parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13"

Copy all the code from the page you have edited and find line 13, then can you paste line 13 here and I may be able to help you (I think you had the same error I did)

I believe this would be the 13th line. I counted the lines that were blank in the page I edited also.

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This store is NOT operational at this time. Expected opening

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

What did you change it to?

I changed it to Change Text. I don't remember what the wording was before anymore.

MartinM · February 17, 2006

I believe this would be the 13th line. I counted the lines that were blank in the page I edited also.

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This store is NOT operational at this time. Expected opening

That's only the beginning of the line; can you give us everything from there until the next closing bracket?

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

That's only the beginning of the line; can you give us everything from there until the next closing bracket?

Here is the whole thing. The last change I made that didn't work is on line 16th and 17th lines of this text. The last word on the 16th line - Change - and the first word on the 17th line - text -.

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This store is NOT operational at this time. Expected opening date is March 1, 2006. Products shown are for demonstrational purposes, any products purchased will not be delivered nor will the customer be billed. Any information seen on these products is to be treated as fictional. <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="2"><tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/1.gif') . '</td><td class="main" valign="top">Come in and Vist! You get a FREE gift with every purchase! My name is April and my friend is Trumpet (the green elephant) we started the, Green Elephant Store. We provide you with high quality hard-to-find plush toys at very reasonable prices. Visit our store and check out our prices. You will find it hard to leave until you have browsed through all of the wonderful plush toys and checked to see if that one item you have been looking for is here. We love selling stuffed animals especially the baby toys. We receive so many emails from parents thanking us for providing them a chance to "replace" that toy their child loves but is lost or just plain worn out. Recently one of our Valentine plush Opus was used by a customer to propose to his girlfriend. We are sure that Valentine Opus played a big part in her answer! </td></tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/2.gif') . '</td><td class="main" valign="top">Change text The text shown here can be modified in the following file, on each language basis: [path to catalog]/includes/languages/' . $language . '/' . FILENAME_DEFAULT . ' That file can be edited manually, or via the Administration Tool with the Languages->' . ucfirst($language) . '->Define or Tools->File Manager modules. The text is set in the following manner: define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...'); The text highlighted in green may be modified - it is important to keep the define() of the TEXT_MAIN keyword. To remove the text for TEXT_MAIN completely, the following example is used where only two single quote characters exist: define('TEXT_MAIN', ''); More information concerning the PHP define() function can be read <a href="http://www.php.net/define" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr><tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/3.gif') . '</td><td class="main"

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

Here is the whole thing. The last change I made that didn't work is on line 16th and 17th lines of this text. The last word on the 16th line - Change - and the first word on the 17th line - text -.

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This store is NOT operational at this time. Expected opening date is March 1, 2006. Products shown are for demonstrational purposes, any products purchased will not be delivered nor will the customer be billed. Any information seen on these products is to be treated as fictional. <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="2"><tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/1.gif') . '</td><td class="main" valign="top">Come in and Vist! You get a FREE gift with every purchase! My name is April and my friend is Trumpet (the green elephant) we started the, Green Elephant Store. We provide you with high quality hard-to-find plush toys at very reasonable prices. Visit our store and check out our prices. You will find it hard to leave until you have browsed through all of the wonderful plush toys and checked to see if that one item you have been looking for is here. We love selling stuffed animals especially the baby toys. We receive so many emails from parents thanking us for providing them a chance to "replace" that toy their child loves but is lost or just plain worn out. Recently one of our Valentine plush Opus was used by a customer to propose to his girlfriend. We are sure that Valentine Opus played a big part in her answer! </td></tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/2.gif') . '</td><td class="main" valign="top">Change text The text shown here can be modified in the following file, on each language basis: [path to catalog]/includes/languages/' . $language . '/' . FILENAME_DEFAULT . ' That file can be edited manually, or via the Administration Tool with the Languages->' . ucfirst($language) . '->Define or Tools->File Manager modules. The text is set in the following manner: define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...'); The text highlighted in green may be modified - it is important to keep the define() of the TEXT_MAIN keyword. To remove the text for TEXT_MAIN completely, the following example is used where only two single quote characters exist: define('TEXT_MAIN', ''); More information concerning the PHP define() function can be read <a href="http://www.php.net/define" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr><tr><td class="main" valign="top">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'default/3.gif') . '</td><td class="main"

Of course the lines changed when I posted this so now you can't go by what I said about the 16th and 17th lines - it depends how it comes up on your computer.

MartinM · February 17, 2006

OK, the problem seems to be the use of apostrophes in your text. You need to escape them with backslashes, like so:

\'

Replace this:

define('TEXT_MAIN', '<span class="messageStackSuccess">This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...</span>')

with this:

define(\'TEXT_MAIN\', \'<span class="messageStackSuccess">This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...</span>\')

and replace this:

define('TEXT_MAIN', '')

with this:

define(\'TEXT_MAIN\', \'\')

That should do the trick :)

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

OK, the problem seems to be the use of apostrophes in your text. You need to escape them with backslashes, like so:

\'

Replace this:
define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...')
with this:
define(\'TEXT_MAIN\', \'This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...\')
and replace this:
define('TEXT_MAIN', '')
with this:
define(\'TEXT_MAIN\', \'\')
That should do the trick :)

Thank you. I will try that. Thanks a lot.

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

Thank you. I will try that. Thanks a lot.

I did the \ before the apostrophes and then the error said:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13

Sorry, I think I'm getting more lost.

April

greenelephantpainting · February 17, 2006

I did the \ before the apostrophes and then the error said:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gets9/public_html/includes/languages/english/index.php on line 13

Sorry, I think I'm getting more lost.

April

Hi,

Thanks for all the help. My boss came by and fixed my problem. It's great to have a boss that doesn't yell at you for not doing your work, but instead helps you with your extra curricular stuff instead.

AGAIN - THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR RESPONSES - YOU ARE WONDERFUL!

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