Is this possible?...

thedjmixman · July 18, 2003

Am I able to call up the "What's new" and "Shopping Cart # Items" windows on my main site (which runs alongside my shopping cart)?

Thanks In Advance :),

Chris

equilla · July 18, 2003

Hi,

yes this is definitely possible and I did this myself on one of my old websites.

What I did was to use and <IFRAME> tag to include the relevant file within the page. For instance:

In my case I ended up creating a whole new php file for the box as I wanted it to have different heading text "New from our Store" or something similar, but I don't think there was any more technical reason that I did this.

Hope this helps,

Mark

thedjmixman · July 18, 2003

Mark, you are brilliant! Thank you very much. I will go and give it a try now!! :)

Thanks :D :D

Chris

thedjmixman · July 18, 2003

Hello again ;)

I am getting the following message where I want the "what's new" window to appear..

"403 - Forbidden

Our web server could not process the request submitted due to the fact that you have attempted to enter a forbidden area of our site. "

Do you know how to sort this out?

Cheers,

Chris

equilla · July 18, 2003

Interesting....

Are you sure the URL is right? Normally you see this message when the browser tries to open a directory for viewing (and this has been disallowed in the webserver config) or if the webserver tries to open a page from somewhere outside the proper place (like the root of the server for instance!).

If you want me to take a look then post a url here or e-mail it to me.

Bear in mind that I'm at work at the moment, so it might take a while to get to it! :)

Mark

thedjmixman · July 18, 2003

Cheers Mark,

When I posted last, I had been trying to view it in preview mode before uploading the page. I then thought that the request may need to come from the within the site, so I uploaded the page and tried again. I still got the error message though.

Every now and again when writing my url, i forget to type .html, which brings up a list of everything in that particular directory. So I guess that has not been disallowed. I will PM the link to you.

Cheers

thedjmixman · July 18, 2003

Solved one problem :)

There was a file in the 'includes' directory which banned people from any of the files. Got that sorted now, but I now get this message...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: tep_random_select() in /home/happynat/public_html/shopping/includes/boxes/whats_new.php on line 17

Would I be able to make a file which starts with definitions that I need, followed by the contents of 'whats_new.php'?

Or is there an easier way of fixing this?

Many Thanks,

Chris

Aric · July 19, 2003

files are usually dependent on other files for functions etc...

So I'm guessing you are including a file or using a function outside of the OSC defined structure.. in which case you have to find all the dependencies, and their dependencies etc.. until you have it all contained :)

blueline · July 19, 2003

Make sure that you are requiring application_top.php. Otherwise it will definitely not work.

j007w · July 19, 2003

I agree with blueline. If you're using MS2 then include filenames.php as well.

Joseph

equilla · July 19, 2003

Oops, of course they are right - that'll teach me to answer questions when I don't have any of my files to hand to check the detail of things I did months ago!. :oops:

What I actually did when I created this before was to copy default.php and cut out all the stuff I didn't need and call it whats_new_homepage.php. This is then included in the IFRAME. My whats_new_homepage file looked something like this (although there is more that could be trimmed out):

<?php

require('includes/application_top.php');

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_DEFAULT);

?>

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<head>

</head>

<tr>

<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

<?php require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'homepage_whats_new.php'); ?>

</table>

includes/boxes/homepage_whats_new.php is a copy of whatsnew.php, but altered so that when the image is clicked it opens in a new page, rather than in the IFRAME.

By way of an example, I have it on the bottom left hand column here:

http://%20*EDIT*%20

Cheers,

Mark

*EDIT* - do not post commercial URL's to these forums - Johnson

thedjmixman · July 20, 2003

Thank you all for your responses :)

I will get on the case and see what I can do. Sorry I didnt reply sooner. I had my computer at my daughters house and their phone line got cut off hehehhee.

Thank you all!!

Chris

secure · July 29, 2003

How did you fix the problem of opening it in new window?

I just want it to open in self page rather than iframe or a new window?

and the other problem is that when you call a php on a iframe it does not use 0 margins and a transparent background...

I got tired of doing that site :(

secure · July 30, 2003

bump :evil:

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