Completely new to OSCommerce, need pointed in the right direction.

[noslenwerd]

Hello,

 

I will try to make this as short as possible. I have a general understanding of PHP, and have been developing webpages for over 3 years using html, css, javascript, actionscript etc. But PHP I am a novice.

 

I have been contracted by a customer to make some general changes to their OSCommerce site, and was wondering if there are any good tutorials to give me a head start on the basics.

 

Just to give you an idea, the users site is very similar to www.superiorsafety.net, and here are a few of the requests he had. I don't expect them to be answered, but can you at least tell me if everything he is asking IS possible with OSCommerce?

1.) resize photos to allow them to load faster and please take a look at the physical size of the photos when you do a "click on to enlarge".

 

2.) Add some items to the sides of the home page (& rest of pages if possible) that shows "Free Shipping on Orders over $ 300.00" & the logos for Mastercard, Visa, American Express, PayPal

 

3.) Add a page or two to the site that use the same layout , headers, etc and just an area or two that has a text box where I can either embed a blog or add some verbiage in the future.

 

4.) Apply some kind of sentence breaks so the info on an item does not run all together as in this example. I think you looked at that at Starbucks.

 

5.) Here's a page that has "Lets see what we have here" at the top. I tried to find out where this text resides so I could delete or alter it but could not. If you can find it, could you either delete it completely or change the text to the category (i.e. "Made in US" , "Cold Weather Gear", etc.

 

6.) During the checkout process there are some things I would like to change:

- replace "post code" with "zip code" and move this below the state (if possible, if not it can stay where its at)

- add one of those spam prevention items we talked about for adding a new acct as well as sending an inquiry that forces someone to type a few letters in that appear. (Captcha)

 

Thanks ahead of time for any help you can give :)

[burt]

1. Any of the thumbnail contributions.

 

2. Amend includes/column_left.php or /includes/column_right.php

 

3. Add new pages - will send you a link to a free eBook showing how this is done

 

4. Search forum for nl2br

 

5. Covered in forum, but as I cannot be bothered to search; http://www.clubosc.com/lets-see-what-we-have-here.html

 

6. language files (product_info.php => /includes/labguages/english/product_info.php

 

I have sent you a Message regarding that eBook.

[noslenwerd]

1. Any of the thumbnail contributions.

 

2. Amend includes/column_left.php or /includes/column_right.php

 

3. Add new pages - will send you a link to a free eBook showing how this is done

 

4. Search forum for nl2br

 

5. Covered in forum, but as I cannot be bothered to search; http://www.clubosc.com/lets-see-what-we-have-here.html

 

6. language files (product_info.php => /includes/labguages/english/product_info.php

 

I have sent you a Message regarding that eBook.

 

Great thank you so much!

 

I am sure this will get me pointed in the right direction.

 

Do I have to install apache or anything of the sort to make these changes? Or can this all be done through the admin panel?

[simplytaty]

Great thank you so much!

 

I am sure this will get me pointed in the right direction.

 

Do I have to install apache or anything of the sort to make these changes? Or can this all be done through the admin panel?

 

The changes can't be done from Admin. They have to be done directly to the php files, so find the files above and make the changes then re-upload the pages to the server. You can modify the php files the same way you'd modify html files.