middd Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 Sorry guys for the noob question.My new job is to maintain an online shop with oscommece.I am a vb.net programmer so i dont have much experience on this side.Of cource i will try to learn the platform but i need to just correct a spelling mistake that it is on the web site. The question is easy.What can i do?Can i download the index file,change it in a html editor and reupload just the html file in the hosting space?Or is there another way to do this thing.Thanks again.I dont have time to search or read right now about the oscommerce. If you have time plz recommend some books or tutorials for a noob to learn xamp and oscommerce.
MrPhil Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 No. There are no "HTML" files in osC. You download a .php file, edit it with a flat file text editor, and upload it back to the site. Or, your hosting service should provide a "File Manager" and editor of some sort that may be usable if the file is small and changes are minor. You should learn how to FTP files up and down anyway, so that you can make a copy of the site as a backup on your PC. You will be able to use PC tools to search a mass of files (such as your entire osC site) at once (hint: get a copy of grep) to find the offending text. Learn a good text editor such as Notepad++ or ViM -- get away from those brain-dead WYSIWYG HTML editors. P.S. Be aware that if the spelling mistake is in something that you typed in during installation or configuration, or you know that you did not edit a .php file to change the text, that the bad text is stored in the database somewhere (i.e., not in a file). You should be able to use the admin tools to change it, or at worst, use phpMyAdmin to directly edit the database entry.
SHEPJ Posted August 22, 2010 Posted August 22, 2010 Did you figure it out, a link and specific word would help....
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