Need help changing the content

[mor1s]

Hello everybody!

 

I've been working with alot of different CMS's before but never osCommerce.. I have a friend that has a webshop and uses oscommerce v2.2.

 

He hired some bloke to create the page for him but doesn't have any contact with him anymore.

 

Now he wants to add an additional menu item and change some text content in one of the sections. I'm here to help him and I'm wondering how I can access the Content Management area in oscommerce?

 

When I enter /admin and login there, I only get to make the changes for products etc, no content of the actual page. How to enter that section?

 

I appreciate any help I can get..

[mor1s]

anybody?

[jhande]

Hey Moris,

 

Most of the page content will be found in a related language file.

 

Example:

Let's say you want to edit the content on the main page when entering the site (http://yourdomain.com/index.php)

Go to: includes\languages\english\index.php

 

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.

[mor1s]

Hey Moris,

 

Most of the page content will be found in a related language file.

 

Example:

Let's say you want to edit the content on the main page when entering the site (http://yourdomain.com/index.php)

Go to: includes\languages\english\index.php

 

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.

 

alright, thank you for the information.. Let's say I want to add a new menu item, how do I do that?

 

kind regards

[jhande]

alright, thank you for the information.. Let's say I want to add a new menu item, how do I do that?

 

kind regards

 

Menu items are added automatically when you add categories and/or products.

 

Take a look in your Admin Panel > Catalog > Categories/Products.

[mor1s]

Menu items are added automatically when you add categories and/or products.

 

Take a look in your Admin Panel > Catalog > Categories/Products.

 

What I meant is that I want to add a new menu section like "Contact" and when you click on it, you can see contact information etc, not products..

 

Or do you still do it the same way?

[jhande]

Sorry Moris,

 

To add links other than products, take a look for how to add links to infoboxes.

 

The answer has been posted here a lot and I think this might have lots of info that might help you out - osCommerce Documentation.

 

I personally found the Online HTML Based Documentation > Table of Contents really useful.

 

Add Links to Boxes

 

[mor1s]

Sorry Moris,

 

To add links other than products, take a look for how to add links to infoboxes.

 

The answer has been posted here a lot and I think this might have lots of info that might help you out - osCommerce Documentation.

 

I personally found the Online HTML Based Documentation > Table of Contents really useful.

 

Add Links to Boxes

 

 

 

Thank you for the reply..

 

here's the thing though,

 

The site has 2 menus to the left, one is "products" and under that is "info" which has 5 items and they all contain just text, the products page I can easily add new items in the admin panel and edit but not in "Info", I can't see it at all.. How can I access it so I can add a new item to "info"? I've looked everywhere through the files and I am almost sure that it has to be something you change in the content management backend and not through coding manually..

 

have any ideas? :\

 

thank you very much for all the help by the way..

[jhande]

A link to the site would be helpful.

 

If the site is following the osC standard way of things, then the links you see in the web browser are being called for from another file.

 

I can't think of anything other than category & product links that are handled from the admin panel.

 

Take look at catalog\includes\column_left.php (depending on your installation, catalog might not be there) that shows you what infoboxes are being called for.

 

You said info is the section in question.

Take a look at catalog\includes\boxes\information.php there you will find the links.

[mor1s]

A link to the site would be helpful.

 

If the site is following the osC standard way of things, then the links you see in the web browser are being called for from another file.

 

I can't think of anything other than category & product links that are handled from the admin panel.

 

Take look at catalog\includes\column_left.php (depending on your installation, catalog might not be there) that shows you what infoboxes are being called for.

 

You said info is the section in question.

Take a look at catalog\includes\boxes\information.php there you will find the links.

 

 

I managed to fix it all, thanks to jhande's help.. Thanks man, you're the best!

[jhande]

Glad I was able to help