help!

[janpete]

Oh dear, my partner and myself are coming to blows. I have installed ecommerce via fantastico in blue voda. I have worked out how to install my products, attributes etc but having real problems changing the front page, i.e. index.php. We have watched the tutorials that blue voda supply over and over and over again, but I think we are missing something really silly or we are being really silly, one or the other, cos on the turorials it is showing a completely different file to the one that oscommerce provide.

 

If I can explain or ask: do you go into file manager in oscommerce itself or do I have to edit, amend the html in my control panel via blue voda.

 

I am getting myself really confused here, so I am sure that I might be getting you confused.

 

We are now not talking, he is in one room, I am in the other, but I wont give up.

 

Help please somebody

 

Jan

[ozcsys]

Oh dear, my partner and myself are coming to blows. I have installed ecommerce via fantastico in blue voda. I have worked out how to install my products, attributes etc but having real problems changing the front page, i.e. index.php. We have watched the tutorials that blue voda supply over and over and over again, but I think we are missing something really silly or we are being really silly, one or the other, cos on the turorials it is showing a completely different file to the one that oscommerce provide.

 

If I can explain or ask: do you go into file manager in oscommerce itself or do I have to edit, amend the html in my control panel via blue voda.

 

I am getting myself really confused here, so I am sure that I might be getting you confused.

 

We are now not talking, he is in one room, I am in the other, but I wont give up.

 

Help please somebody

 

Jan

 

 

Actually you will be better off if you download the file to your local computer and edit them there keeping a copy as a backup. If you edit them directly from the server and do something wrong (screw them up) you then have a big problem. If you have a backup copy and you trash the file then you can always upload the backup and try again.

 

Get yourself a ftp program and a php editor (search google for free ones) and then use them.

[janpete]

Thank you for your quick reply, but I still dont understand how and where i get the files from, how to upload them etc.

 

Thats it, I cant be bothered, wont be using oscommerce, stick to building my own sites with a shopping cart.

 

Sorry to rant but I have had enough of trying to work it out.

[spax]

If I can explain or ask: do you go into file manager in oscommerce itself or do I have to edit, amend the html in my control panel via blue voda.

 

I am getting myself really confused here, so I am sure that I might be getting you confused.

 

Thank you for your quick reply, but I still dont understand how and where i get the files from, how to upload them etc.

 

Thats it, I cant be bothered, wont be using oscommerce, stick to building my own sites with a shopping cart.

 

Sorry to rant but I have had enough of trying to work it out.

 

If you are capable of building you own static sites, let alone one with a shopping cart; why the confusion?

 

You have OSC installed onto your sever, just download index.php to your PC so you have a copy. Open it up in Dreamweaver, Notepad or whatever you use for your usual editing (not FrontPage) and edit like you would normally.

You will see some normal HTML in there, plus a lot of PHP. You can do to the HTML what you should be used to, if you don't know PHP, then it's a learning curve. You can style most of it from the stylesheet, which again you should be used to.

 

Better still, get yourself XAMPP, then download OSC from here and install to your PC. Then you can mess around with it and see the output before uploading your changes.