A few newbie questions!

[sasgt]

Hey all,

 

I'm new to OSCommerce and new to PHP in general. I know a little HTML, but that's about it.

 

I have a few questions which I wish you guys can help me out with.

 

1. How do you change the color scheme? Does this include manipulating PHP? How is it done? (I have php-editing software, but have no idea what I'm doing!)

 

2. How can I center and change the width of the entire store?

 

3. Where can I edit the menus on the sides (e.g. Categories, manufactureres, information...etc)?

 

I would really appreciate some help, detailed if possible...

 

Thanks a lot guys

[Wendy James]

1.Most colors are controlled in the stylesheet.css

2.Changing the width can be done several ways but there is a contribution you can use here http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,266 or http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1485 or http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1932 or... you get the point. You can do a search in the contribution area for "center" and you will find a whole bunch of things.

 

3.What do you mean by edit? Change the look?

[sasgt]

Thanks a lot dude,

 

I want to delete the "manufacterer" menu, ...etc. How can I do that?

 

Thanks

 

P.S. How can I download/install these contributions?

[ddp]

Thanks a lot dude,

 

I want to delete the "manufacterer" menu, ...etc. How can I do that?

 

Thanks

 

P.S. How can I download/install these contributions?

 

To take out info boxes edit the catalog/includes/column_left.php and catalog/includes/colums_right.php files.

Make a backup before you begin.

 

To get to the contributions click the community tab at the top of this page and then select contributions.

[sasgt]

Thanks for the help.

 

I went to the contributions section, and found helpful stuff, but how do you actually download these contributions? All I see are descriptions of what they do.

 

Thanks

[Wendy James]

To take out the boxes... look in the files mentioned above and just put // infront of the line of code for whichever box you do not want to show up.

 

To download a contribution click on the little green arrow thing on the right side of the description.

 

ps... I am not a dude. : )

[macparts]

To take out the boxes... look in the files mentioned above and just put // infront of the line of code for whichever box you do not want to show up.

 

To download a contribution click on the little green arrow thing on the right side of the description.

 

ps... I am not a dude. : )

 

 

To add to what wendyjames mention for those that haven't done much programming. What you are doing with the // is commenting out that part of the code. It will still exist in the file but will not be included in the page when it is executed. This will let you "play" with the code to see how it looks without deleting anything.