how do i insert such a long table

[yanarasod]

i want to have a glossary list like this site's

 

http://www.allfoodbusiness.com/Tea_Glossary.php

 

just did want to ask should i make simple html tables and insert the contents in the file

 

catalog/includes/languages/english/myfile.php

 

is it the right procdure.

[kgt]

Yes you can do that. You want to create a language file and a code file (use conditions.php for a template), an entry in includes/filenames.php, and a line in includes/column_left.php to add the link to the left side boxes.

[yanarasod]

thanks, just had another question, how do i make my new file take for example

 

filename.php

 

i want it under a folder newfolder/filename.php

 

so the url will be www.mystore.com/newfolder/filename.php

 

i have my catalog installed on the root domain, do you have any ideas how i can achieve it.

[kgt]

Depends on what you're doing with it. If you just want another folder, you can actually include the folder name in the filename definition:

 

includes/filenames.php

define( 'MY_FILE', 'newfolder/filename.php' );

[yanarasod]

didnt understand this

 

"Depends on what you're doing with it"

 

i just want another folder with and in the file under it

 

includes/header.php, and all those things required for a normal page as conditions.php

[yanarasod]

ok i created a file url

 

http://www.bhuratea.com/where_to_buy/locate_a_store.php

 

and the error which i get is in the url

[kgt]

Yeah, it won't work without major revision. You'll need to put in the root directory.

[yanarasod]

does that mean making changes to application_top.php. is there any other way as

 

i have more than 20 pages that need to be under different folders.

[kgt]

Yes, you would need to adjust the paths of all the included files from yourfilesdir/yourfile.php. If you change application_top.php and all the others to include files using absolute paths instead of relative paths, then you wouldn't need to worry unless you changed servers.

 

You need to make sure that DIR_FS_CATALOG has the correct value.

 

Replace all instances of

 

require( 'somefile.php' );

with

require( DIR_FS_CATALOG.'somefile.php' );

 

and

 

include( 'somefile.php' );

with

include( DIR_FS_CATALOG.'somefile.php' );

 

You will want to do this on a test site because you will run into lots of path issues trying to get everything right.

[yanarasod]

just didn't get anything into my head.

[kgt]

just didn't get anything into my head.

 

 

The problem you're running into is this:

 

 

 

Your site has the following structure:

• account.php
  
• account_edit.php
  
• account_history.php
  
• etc.
  
• includes
  • application_bottom.php
    
  • application_top.php
    
  • column_left.php
    
  • etc.
    

All files that are called use the catalog root - in your case it's the same as the site root. Since there are certain files needed to run OSC (includes/configure.php with the database connection information, etc), you need the includes directory and subdirectories.

 

If I'm pointing my browser to account.php in the root, account.php needs to include includes/application_top.php (which in turn includes configure.php). In this case, includes/ is a relative path. It's finding the application_top.php by looking in a subdirectory of the current directory called includes.

 

If you point your browser to mydir/somefile.php, then we're no longer in the root. So include('includes/application_top.php') will fail because there is no subdirectory of mydir called includes.

 

In order to get the correct directory included, you can use the full (absolute) path to the includes/ directory.

[user99999999]

You can make it work by using chdir() to navigate to the correct directory before including application_top.

 

chdir('..');

require('includes/application_top.php');

[kgt]

You can make it work by using chdir() to navigate to the correct directory before including application_top.

 

chdir('..');

require('includes/application_top.php');

 

 

True! This is a great suggestion.

[yanarasod]

ok here was what i did, i added the chdir('..'); in front of require('includes/application_top.php'); , the page now doesnt even load. do i need to replace the .. of chdir('..'); with includes/application_top.php

 

<?php

/*

$Id: newsroom.php,v 1.22 2003/06/05 23:26:23 hpdl Exp $

*/

 

chdir('..');

require('includes/application_top.php');

 

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_LOCATE_A_STORE);

 

$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE_1, tep_href_link(FILENAME_INFO));

 

$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE_2, tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOCATE_A_STORE));

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html <?php echo HTML_PARAMS; ?>>

<head>

 

<?php

// BOF: Header Tag Controller v2.5.7

if ( file_exists(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header_tags.php') ) {

require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header_tags.php');

} else {

?>

<title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title>

<?php

}

// EOF: Header Tag Controller v2.5.7

?>

[kgt]

Now you're getting an error because you haven't created the language file. You include it:

 

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_LOCATE_A_STORE);

 

But it doesn't exist. Create a language file (or remove this line if you don't need one):

 

includes/languages/english/where_to_buy/locate_a_store.php

[yanarasod]

THANKS, very much, worked like a charm, had been searching for it for almost 1 month in different forums thanks, so including

 

chdir('..');

 

did the trick, but just to be sure will it cause session loss or any other errors. thanks again

 

 

i will be glad if you could take a look at this topic, all my categories behave differently, i am unable to find a way out

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=211947

[yanarasod]

back to the issue:

 

is there any way to make my url directly to sub-folder

 

www.site.com/subfolder

 

instead of

 

www.site.com/subfolder/index.php

 

i tried

define('FILENAME_FILE', 'subfolder');

 

instead of

define('FILENAME_FILE', 'subfolder/index.php');

 

but was of no help, by typing in the url in the address bar one can get there, but how do i make a link in the page itself.