Troubles with altering text

[joekalis]

Hello.

 

I've read up on some of the tutorials, and read many of the posts here. It's gotten me to the point where I can change around the order of the page to how I want it, and ultimately, I will change the stylesheet to make it look how I want.

 

However, I am still stumped as to how to change the text on the default page...the whole...

 

"Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in? Or would you prefer to create an account?

 

This is a demonstration online-shop...."

 

and also, the copyright info at the bottom of the page. I looked into what I could think of, but nowhere could I find a place to change the actual text for those areas. So I suppose what I'm asking is which PHP files are responsible for the "login greeting" or what have you, as well as the copyright text at the bottom. I tried looking into the 'whats_new', 'tell_a_friend', and 'specials' PHP files, but I dont really know what im looking for in order to change these things.

 

:roll: any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

joe

[Guest]

Open up:

 

catalog :arrow: includes :arrow: languages :arrow: english :arrow: default.php

 

...and change:

 

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This is a default setup of the osCommerce project, products shown are for demonstrational purposes, <b>any products purchased will not be delivered nor will the customer be billed</b>. Any information seen on these products is to be treated as fictional.<br><br>If you wish to download the solution powering this shop, or if you wish to contribute to the osCommerce project, please visit the <a href="http://oscommerce.com"><u>support site of osCommerce</u></a>. This shop is running on osCommerce version <font color="#f0000"><b>' . PROJECT_VERSION . '</b></font>.<br><br>The text shown here can be modified in the following file, on each language basis: [path to catalog]/includes/languages/[language]/default.php.<br><br>That can be edited manually, or via the Administration Tool with the Languages->[language]->Define option, or by using the Tools->File Manager feature.');

 

...to what you want it to say

 

-Matt

[Guest]

To change the welcome greeting go into:

 

catalog :arrow: includes :arrow: languages :arrow: english.php

 

...and change:

 

define('TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL', 'Welcome back <span class="greetUser">%s!</span> Would you like to see which <a href="%s"><u>new products</u></a> are available to purchase?');

 

..to what you want it to say

 

-Matt

[Guest]

To change the copyright statement go into:

 

catalog :arrow: includes :arrow: languages :arrow: english.php

 

...and change (at the bottom):

 

define('FOOTER_TEXT_BODY', 'Copyright © 2003 <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">osCommerce</a><br>Powered by <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">osCommerce</a>');

 

...to what you want it to say.

 

-Matt