new person question

[Bampson]

hi

 

i have bought a template which i have been tring to make mine slowly.

the problem i am haveing is the template i bought has a picture of a product on the front page

sort of like a special/ featured product , when you click the picture it brings up product not found.

 

my question is where do i enter the information for that product?

 

 

i hope you understand what i am tring to say .. :lol:

[Jack_mcs]

You'll have to find where they link is made for that image and change the code to have it link to one of your products. I can't be more specific than that since where the code is at depends on the template.

 

Jack

[Bampson]

thanks for the reply.

 

when i click on the item i get www.mysite/product_info.php?products_id=55

 

where would i go to change this ?

[Jack_mcs]

That is where the link is going to, not where it is made. If it is only on your home page, then you would look in the index.php file.

 

Jack

[php4ever]

Bampson in most cases custom templates from template clubs also include an installer with pre-modded or customized osCommerce, CRELoaded or osCMax type source files so "product id #55" could very well have been the result of such a thing.

 

A good thing to remember is that osCommerce templates are really just modified core files unless you are using one of the template systems so when people sell pre made designs a lot of work has gone into customization (which would explain the average cost of $150+)

 

As Jack had said, depending on where you see that product banner image is the file you want to edit. The alternative I've recently come up with all our commercial work is to use database driven image rotators with some PHP that gives end users the option to dynamically point images to their intended product pages. This saves a ton of work in tech support.

 

Just remember to keep a backup of all your code before modification.

 

Best Regards

~ Jared