links on header/banner

[DhoTjai]

I would like to have links on the banner in header.

 

Like this on the picture

 

 

This is 1 picture and I want to add text on it, clickable, welcome Guest/member, show date and time.

 

 

Does anyone know how I can do this?

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[ddp]

I would like to have links on the banner in header.

 

Like this on the picture

 

 

This is 1 picture and I want to add text on it, clickable, welcome Guest/member, show date and time.

 

 

Does anyone know how I can do this?

 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

You need to edit the catalog/includes/header.php file to set this up.

[DhoTjai]

I know, but how to? =o

 

I've looked at the codes, and they are giving me an headache. I only know the basics of html -.- and 1 of php = echo 'hello world'; ....

[DhoTjai]

No one know how to do this? X_X

[spax]

It is quite complicated and maybe not worth the bother.

 

You have a 'Home' link on the breadcrumb trail, which is either 'Top' or 'Catalog' depending on where your store is located. You can change either one to Home in your catalog/includes/languages/english.php file.

 

You also already have a 'Contact Us' link in the Information Box but if you really want to have extra ones where you have them in your image, you need to go into includes/header.php and change or add to the three image links already there.

Right now you should have, FILENAME_ACCOUNT, FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART and FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING. The Home link would be FILENAME_DEFAULT and the Contact link would be FILENAME_CONTACT_US. If you want text links instead of images, just replace the images with the definitions in catalog/includes/languages/english.php.

 

The new link you want in there 'Forum' the easiest way is to wrap it in a normal <a href"">HTML anchor</a>

 

The date and time bit, is that necessary? You have the date at the bottom already and your user has a clock on their PC.

 

If you really need to do it, you may want to first edit the greeting for TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL, TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL_RELOGON and TEXT_GREETING_GUEST which again, are in catalog/includes/languages/english.php.

Then in index.php, find <?php echo tep_customer_greeting(); ?> cut and paste it into includes/header.php, wherever you want it and next to it add <?php echo strftime(DATE_TIME_FORMAT); ?> That will give you date and time. Formatting it differently is another chapter.

 

Now I need a lie down! :sweating:

[DhoTjai]

Thanks for your time to write this ^_^v

 

I actually want text links on the image. The example picture above, is 1 big banner, and I want to add text links on to it.

 

I tried to copy the line for the oscommerce.gif logo (banner), and tried to <img src="x.gif"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' Home . '</a>' ?>

and that is giving me errors, it doesnt make any sense =( but yea, at least i tried to figure it out :P )

 

Now I really got a big headache, time to rest -.-

 

Do you have a code where I can begin with, then I can copy past and add for the rest of the text links?

[spax]

You got an error because the coding is wrong. For that link you have posted, it should be written like so:

 

<?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'SSL') . '">Home</a>'; ?>

 

If you put two or three together, the coding would be slightly different.

 

To put text links over your banner, you need to set it as a background image. You only really need the top part of the banner, set the background color of the breadcrumb trail table to the same color as the bottom part.