Change Info Box Link

[llz925]

Hi -

I can't seem to find the answer to my question anywhere on here, so I'm sorry if this has been covered before.

 

I am trying to make the "contact us" link in the Information box link to a different page than the oscommerce one. I have my own contact us page I want it to link to instead.

What file do I need to modify, and what part of the code do I need to edit to change where this link goes?

 

Thank you for the help in advance.

Liz

[KDM]

catalog/includes/boxes/information.php

The is the file for all the information links.

 

Be sure to back up the file before you make changes in case of problems.

 

find:

 

'<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONTACT . '</a>');

 

replace:

 

 

'<a href="' . tep_href_link(******your link here******) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONTACT . '</a>');

[llz925]

catalog/includes/boxes/information.php

The is the file for all the information links.

 

Be sure to back up the file before you make changes in case of problems.

 

find:

 

'<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONTACT . '</a>');

 

replace:

 

 

'<a href="' . tep_href_link(******your link here******) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONTACT . '</a>');

 

Thanks - I have tried that though a few times, and each time I reload my website to see if it has worked all of my main content goes missing! It's very strange. I have tried to enter in the linked url a few different ways and that seems to make the content come back, but then the link just gives me a 404 error.

 

Maybe I am going about this wrong - it's not actually an external link to a different website, it is a link to a different html file outside of the catalog directory for the same website. Any suggestions?

[llz925]

Thanks - I have tried that though a few times, and each time I reload my website to see if it has worked all of my main content goes missing! It's very strange. I have tried to enter in the linked url a few different ways and that seems to make the content come back, but then the link just gives me a 404 error.

 

Maybe I am going about this wrong - it's not actually an external link to a different website, it is a link to a different html file outside of the catalog directory for the same website. Any suggestions?

 

Update:

I actually got it to work, after playing around with it A LOT. I ended up having to copy the page I wanted to direct it to into the catalog directory and keep the .html off. the "." was messing with the .php code I think. Thank you for your help!

[KDM]

If you are putting in a absolute link like this:

 

'<a href="' . tep_href_link('this/is/my/other/contact_us.html') . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CONTACT . '</a>');

 

Be sure it is surrounded by apostrophes.

I"m pretty sure you can link on your own server outside of your web root path do a search on google, might get better answer. I'm not sure this is something you would do regularly as I believe your file and directory permissions could compromise the integrity of your server if you don't have the it set up right. Of course do a little research.

 

Why not just bring the contact us file you want to use over to your catalog folder. Shouldn't be any problems there.