How can i remove this deafult text

[indianking]

Hello everyone,

 

I am trying to remove this text that is deafult on the front page

 

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The text is set in the following manner:

 

 

according to this i can change it by editing index.php in language/english folder. i edited that but even then the text is not changing. Please someone help me to enter my own text here.

[Invado]

I am worse off than you...I tried editing, and must have screwed something up b/c now I can't even see the store anymore ...there is an error message. I'm completely new at this and not great on computers in general to begin with so I should have quit when I was ahead.

I thought I figured out the problem when I decided to download another store, went back into file manager, english, index, etc. I copied and pasted all the text there into my original store, expecting that to work, but it doesn't...the file for some reason is slightly smaller, but when I open up both, they look exactly alike. Could someone show us what that file should look like once all the default text has been removed...I would settle at this point, to keep the default text, but have my site up again...any suggestions?????

 

Hello everyone,

 

I am trying to remove this text that is deafult on the front page

according to this i can change it by editing index.php in language/english folder. i edited that but even then the text is not changing. Please someone help me to enter my own text here.

[Guest]

Here's the index modified to show where you new text should go.

 

leave the ' text marks ' or you get an error.

 

copy this text to a text editor (notepad on Windows ) save it and use the oscommerce file manager to upload it to /includes/languages/english/

 

Edward

 

 

 

<?php

/*

$Id: index.php,v 1.1 2003/06/11 17:38:00 hpdl Exp $

 

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http://www.oscommerce.com

 

Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

 

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

 

define('TEXT_MAIN', ' put your new text here, and leave the text marks ');

 

define('TABLE_HEADING_NEW_PRODUCTS', 'New Products For %s');

define('TABLE_HEADING_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS', 'Upcoming Products');

define('TABLE_HEADING_DATE_EXPECTED', 'Date Expected');

 

if ( ($category_depth == 'products') || (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'])) ) {

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Let\'s See What We Have Here');

define('TABLE_HEADING_IMAGE', '');

define('TABLE_HEADING_MODEL', 'Model');

define('TABLE_HEADING_PRODUCTS', 'Product Name');

define('TABLE_HEADING_MANUFACTURER', 'Manufacturer');

define('TABLE_HEADING_QUANTITY', 'Quantity');

define('TABLE_HEADING_PRICE', 'Price');

define('TABLE_HEADING_WEIGHT', 'Weight');

define('TABLE_HEADING_BUY_NOW', 'Buy Now');

define('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS', 'There are no products to list in this category.');

define('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS2', 'There is no product available from this manufacturer.');

define('TEXT_NUMBER_OF_PRODUCTS', 'Number of Products: ');

define('TEXT_SHOW', '<b>Show:</b>');

define('TEXT_BUY', 'Buy 1 \'');

define('TEXT_NOW', '\' now');

define('TEXT_ALL_CATEGORIES', 'All Categories');

define('TEXT_ALL_MANUFACTURERS', 'All Manufacturers');

} elseif ($category_depth == 'top') {

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Welcome to the store');

} elseif ($category_depth == 'nested') {

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Categories');

}

?>

[jasonabc]

went back into file manager

Stop using File Manager - it's buggy and causes lots of problems with OSC's files. Download a decent FTP program and use that to transfer files from your webserver to your computer for editing. Save and transfer back to your webserver.

[brocky]

Stop using File Manager - it's buggy and causes lots of problems with OSC's files. Download a decent FTP program and use that to transfer files from your webserver to your computer for editing. Save and transfer back to your webserver.

 

how do i do that? i have no clue what to do. Could somebody please put up a step by step guide to help me please?

[jasonabc]

Read this:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=162231

 

There are thousands of FTP tutorials on the web - Google for some of them. That will explain what FTP is and how to get and use the software.