Where's my Information.php file?

[Obiwan2000]

hi

 

I've been trying to get to grips with adding a simple box to the mainpage and I've been trying to follow the instructions I found in the osCommerse Knowledge Base on adding and removing boxes. It looks very infomative and concise, but right from the word go I hit a problem.

 

The includes/boxes/information.php file above will be copied to includes/boxes/my_new_box.php and will contain the following with MY_NEW_BOX text changing to the name of your box file and PAGE listings renamed to the new pages that will go in this new box:

 

No such file could be found - the closest I got was information_table.php, and of course it doesn't contain the information I'm told should be there. Am I missing files? Apparently I should have includes/boxes/information.php too, but again, no such file can be found, yet it has to be somewhere because the Information box appears on all pages!

Can anyone help me out?

 

Thanks

[jonquil]

Me thinks you are using CRE Loaded, yes?

 

jon

[Obiwan2000]

Me thinks you are using CRE Loaded, yes?

 

jon

 

Err...CRE?

[aheisey]

I was able to locate my information.php file. It' in the includes -> boxes directory. If you can't find yours, are you using templates from CRE Loaded software?

[Obiwan2000]

I was able to locate my information.php file. It' in the includes -> boxes directory. If you can't find yours, are you using templates from CRE Loaded software?

 

I guess I must be, whatever that is.

My shop was installed by a 3rd party who is hosting my site.

I don't have a file called information.php anywhere that i can find, so how does that work? What do I do to be able to add a box or two when I want to?

[jonquil]

You may find the support you need at the CRE Loaded forums :)

 

jon

[Obiwan2000]

You may find the support you need at the CRE Loaded forums :)

 

jon

 

Thanks Jon, I'll be taking a look now......(thanks for your reply also Allyson)

[Obiwan2000]

I have now located my information.php file - well to be precise 8 of them! Even so, I still have a problem. What the knowledge base topic says should be in the file - isn't:-

 

<!-- information //-->
	  <tr>
		<td>
<?php
 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_HEADING_INFORMATION);

 new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);

 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_SHIPPING) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_SHIPPING . '</a><br>' .
									 '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRIVACY) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PRIVACY . '</a><br>' .
									 '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONDITIONS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONDITIONS . '</a><br>' .
									 '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONTACT . '</a><br>' .
									 '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_SITEMAP) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_SITEMAP . '</a>');

 new infoBox($info_box_contents);
?>
		</td>
	  </tr>
<!-- information_eof //-->

 

This isn't what I have found in my information.php file:-

 

 

 

<!-- information //-->
	  <tr>
		<td>
<?php
 $heading = array();
 $contents = array();

 $heading[] = array('text'  => BOX_HEADING_ADDITIONAL,
				 'link'  => tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('selected_box')) . 'selected_box=information'));

 if ($selected_box == 'information' || $menu_dhtml == true) {
$contents[] = array('text'  => tep_admin_files_boxes(FILENAME_INFORMATION_MANAGER, BOX_INFORMATION_MANAGER) .
							   tep_admin_files_boxes(FILENAME_DEFINE_MAINPAGE, BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_MAINPAGE));
 }

 $box = new box;
 echo $box->menuBox($heading, $contents);
?>
		</td>
	  </tr>
<!-- information_eof //-->

 

It just isn't even close, so maybe I could work with it. Even though I have backed everything up, I'm still terrified in diving into something I know very little about and ending up wrecking my store.

 

The same thing goes for the column_left.php file. Apparently it should contain:

 

<?php
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'categories.php');
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'manufacturers.php');
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'whats_new.php');
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'search.php');
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'my_new_box.php');
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'information.php');
?>

 

but my column_left.php file contains:

 

 

  $column_query = tep_db_query('select display_in_column as cfgcol, infobox_file_name as cfgtitle, infobox_display as cfgvalue, infobox_define as cfgkey, box_heading, box_template, box_heading_font_color from ' . TABLE_INFOBOX_CONFIGURATION . ' where template_id = ' . TEMPLATE_ID . ' and infobox_display = "yes" and display_in_column = "left" order by location');
 while ($column = tep_db_fetch_array($column_query)) {

if ( file_exists(DIR_WS_TEMPLATES . TEMPLATE_NAME . '/boxes/' . $column['cfgtitle'])) {
define($column['cfgkey'],$column['box_heading']);
$infobox_define = $column['box_heading'];
$infobox_template = $column['box_template'];
$font_color = $column['box_heading_font_color'];
$infobox_class = $column['box_template'];
//cache control side box detect
if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID) && ($column['cfgtitle'] == 'categories4.php') ) {

} else if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID) && ($column['cfgtitle'] == 'manufacturers.php') ) {
 echo tep_cache_manufacturers_box();
} else {
require(DIR_WS_TEMPLATES . TEMPLATE_NAME . '/boxes/' . $column['cfgtitle']);
  }
  // end cache control code   
}else{
define($column['cfgkey'],$column['box_heading']);
$infobox_define = $column['box_heading'];
$infobox_template = $column['box_template'];
$font_color = $column['box_heading_font_color'];
$infobox_class = $column['box_template'];
require(DIR_WS_BOXES . $column['cfgtitle']);

}
}
?>

 

I've spent far too long trying to do this - should be a simple thing to do, just to add a new box.