A stupid question ;-)

[laurentb]

In my youth, I mean, I am real old now that I am approaching my middle age crisis, I learned at University what I believe is called in English "machine code", but I haven't done any since (apparently it is like riding a bike, lol).

 

That was when the first 'PC' came on the market under the shape of the Armstrad Z something. Not that I owned one.

 

Neither-the-less, then we were taught to use diagram to help preparing the coding for the chips.

 

I was wondering if any such type of document existed, that shows the interlinks between files/coding etc, as I find myself hunting from one page to another, as the coding generally refer to some defined coding elsewhere, on and on.

 

I am officially novice with osCommerce and PHP, have a basic understanding of HTML, and can't bear using any editor such as WYSIWYG. I am currently using Smultrom for editing, and Safari for preview. So far it seems to go well.

 

I hope I have explained myself clearly enough for one to understand what I am looking for.

 

Many thanks

[bill110]

You might be able to find that in a book. There are many at Amazon.com

It would take pages to diagram it.

Basically the functions are defined in (seperate for admin and catalog side) two files divided between general functions and html output functions.

Then they are called as needed by each page. In order to access them you have to make a call to the files which is done in application_top.php which is included in each page at the top.

All other elements like column_left new_products etc wor the same.

Once the function is called data for it is supplied by input from the cust or from a database search etc.

With over 150 files you can see how a diagram would be very big.

[laurentb]

Thanks

I'll explore this