peterr Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 Hi, I've only started to work with STS, but as an uneducated guess, yes, you would be correct in saying that you need to define a new template tag. Use, '$informationbox' as an example, and search the STS code for instances of 'informationbox', and build your new template tag (call it $googleinfobox) based on how '$informationbox' works. HTH Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterr Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 (edited) Hi, I'm using this template. It's wonderful. However, while adding payment methods, etc, I started checking the checkout procedure (which I haven't done before) and I'm having a display problem. http://www.coastalmermaid.com/problem.htm <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, I couldn't see the template, as the site is not live yet, but all I can say is do you have a seperate file defined just for the checkout procedure ? I'm only just testing STS myself, in a seperate path on our website, and did notice that the link to the checkout (i.e. checkout button) isn't resolving properly, it had gone back to the web root path, up one path ?? You could try modifying the /catalog/includes/application_bottom.php file, this setting: $display_debugging_output = 1; Peter Edited March 19, 2005 by peterr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaBee Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 Peter, thank you so much. I enabled the debugging. I don't know what to make of it. Ewww! www.coastalmermaid.com/catalog/index.php You can use this login [email protected] and pwd test123 man, what a mess. But now when I try and login it goes to a blank page with nothing. Maybe I should drop back and punt, start with a fresh install and upload my configuration pages one at a time? Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rus3439 Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 I have two questions: 1. How do i correctly create links from sts_template to pages like shopping cart, check out and so on? 2. I i want sts_template to be the first page of my site how do i make it so it gets triggered when website is accessed: www.mysite.com and sts_template starts. Thanks Quote We are not that rich to buy cheap things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Wood Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 2. I i want sts_template to be the first page of my site how do i make it so it gets triggered when website is accessed: www.mysite.com and sts_template starts. I think you misunderstand something here: the sts_template is not a starting page, it is used by the starting page, which is the index.php in the root. So if you want to start with the template you probably mean to say you want to start with the index.php, which would be the starting point anyway. Hope to have been of help. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rus3439 Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 I think you misunderstand something here: the sts_template is not a starting page,it is used by the starting page, which is the index.php in the root. So if you want to start with the template you probably mean to say you want to start with the index.php, which would be the starting point anyway. Hope to have been of help. Ken <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So if i make changes to sts_template does it make changes to index.php automatically? Sorry for dumb questions, but i am very new at this and still trying to figure out the mechanism of ocS with template. Can you PLEASE explain how does it wok and communicates with ocS. Thanks, Ruslan Quote We are not that rich to buy cheap things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rus3439 Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 So if i make changes to sts_template does it make changes to index.php automatically? Sorry for dumb questions, but i am very new at this and still trying to figure out the mechanism of ocS with template. Can you PLEASE explain how does it wok and communicates with ocS. Thanks, Ruslan <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How can i change permission to configure.php file? I get an error message on the main page saying that can write to configure.php. But it won't let me change permission to just r. Thanks Quote We are not that rich to buy cheap things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joedy Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) hi I would like to thank you for this contribution it rocks, I was using infobox manager 2.0 and the latest sts 2.01 i think but my catagories menu is black. it's the only box. the words are there black of course but the back ground to the box does not show up i get a path to pic as /blah/blah/blah/images/infobox_slices/ /blah/blah/blah 'SEE ADDS A SPACE IN BETWEEN THE DIRECTORY' where the other boxes have the correct directory. everything else in the store works to a treat? any idea's I have searched this forum and read and read lol it's huge but can't seem to find anything??? please :) Edited March 20, 2005 by Joedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterr Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) Hi Linda, Tried that login and pwd, got a ......... Error: No match for E-Mail Address and/or Password. If you are getting a blank page, it will no doubt be a PHP error, so have a look in your PHP error log file, to see what caused the blank page. Peter Edited March 20, 2005 by peterr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaBee Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Thanks Peter. For some reason, I get that error, too. But then, other times, I can login. That's a correct account, so I've got a lot of work to do. Time to dig ! :) Thanks Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaBee Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Peter, I'm confused. My sts_template.html is perfect, that's what's loading up top. But underneath is the index.php display. I don't understand. I have the template output=1 so it should be displaying only the template, right? Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I am having an STS problem maybe someone could help me with... I have created graphical navigation links using the '$urlcat_CategoryName' feature, however these links are not working properly with the breadcrumb trail. You can see the store at www.parkerstrophies.com If you click on the 'Trophies' navigation link, you go to trophies. If you click on a subcategory (say Bobbleheads), you go the the Bobblehead Trophy page. If you then use the navigation links to go back to Trophies (main page), it just reloads the Bobbleheads page. If you click on a different link (try Wedding & Gift Items), you go to the correct page, but the breadcrumb trail says Home-Trophies-Bobbleheads-Wedding & Gift Items. Does anyone know a solution for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Hi there, It looks as if your cPath for the 'Trophies' graphic button is incorrect. The link is http://parkerstrophies.com/index.php?cPath=26_22_26 but I think it should really be http://parkerstrophies.com/index.php?cPath=26 because if you click on the 'Trophies' breadcrumb trail at the top of the page then it takes you there okay. You could try this and see if it works for you. Regards, Mark Bowen I am having an STS problem maybe someone could help me with... I have created graphical navigation links using the '$urlcat_CategoryName' feature, however these links are not working properly with the breadcrumb trail. You can see the store at www.parkerstrophies.com If you click on the 'Trophies' navigation link, you go to trophies. If you click on a subcategory (say Bobbleheads), you go the the Bobblehead Trophy page. If you then use the navigation links to go back to Trophies (main page), it just reloads the Bobbleheads page. If you click on a different link (try Wedding & Gift Items), you go to the correct page, but the breadcrumb trail says Home-Trophies-Bobbleheads-Wedding & Gift Items. Does anyone know a solution for this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I used STS for the link which is $urlcat_Trophies, and that creates the cPath for me (or is supposed to!) For some reason STS just keeps adding categories without clearing the old ones, and I don't understand it well enough to know why... But anyway, I tried creating the cPath links manually as you suggested (not through STS) and that made it all work beautifully!:D Thanks for the help! Hi there, It looks as if your cPath for the 'Trophies' graphic button is incorrect. The link is http://parkerstrophies.com/index.php?cPath=26_22_26 but I think it should really be http://parkerstrophies.com/index.php?cPath=26 because if you click on the 'Trophies' breadcrumb trail at the top of the page then it takes you there okay. You could try this and see if it works for you. Regards, Mark Bowen <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Glad to be of assistance!! Regards, Mark I used STS for the link which is $urlcat_Trophies, and that creates the cPath for me (or is supposed to!) For some reason STS just keeps adding categories without clearing the old ones, and I don't understand it well enough to know why... But anyway, I tried creating the cPath links manually as you suggested (not through STS) and that made it all work beautifully!:D Thanks for the help! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsatchell Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Could someone please help me get my right column and footer fixed!? I can't seem to find a good explanation of the right and left columns. I've been able to cludge my way around them so far but now I've run into a problem that I just can't get figured out with the right column. The right column is messed up and the footer keeps trying to reside inside of the right column even though in the template file it is at the bottom in its own table. Here is the link to my wifes site and I would really appreciate some help: Christina J's Jewelry Thanx, Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Could someone please help me get my right column and footer fixed!? I can't seem to find a good explanation of the right and left columns. I've been able to cludge my way around them so far but now I've run into a problem that I just can't get figured out with the right column. The right column is messed up and the footer keeps trying to reside inside of the right column even though in the template file it is at the bottom in its own table. Here is the link to my wifes site and I would really appreciate some help: Christina J's Jewelry Thanx, Dave. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Some tag isn't closed somewhere. Have you monkied any of the osC files around? If so you'll just have to dig until you find it. Open your page (any page) copy the source, paste into a new html file and go to town looking for it. OK. I'll do it for you (feeling fussy this evening, sorry about that) Find <!-- end content //--> </td> <td width="165" align="right" valign="top" class="columnright"><p class="infoBox"> <!-- start cartbox //--> <!-- end cartbox //--> <br> <!-- start bestsellersbox //--> <!-- end bestsellersbox //--> <br> <!-- start currenciesbox //--> <!-- end currenciesbox //--> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <table width="100%" border="1" align="center" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#FF00FF"> <tr> <td bordercolor="#FF00FF" class="footer"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <br> </body> </html> Replace with <!-- end content //--> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <table width="100%" border="1" align="center" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#FF00FF"> <tr> <td bordercolor="#FF00FF" class="footer"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <br> </body> </html> Quote Everything's funny but nothing's a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsatchell Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Still having problems with the footer and right column Iggy, I appreciate the effort but I think my problem is a little more cryptic. I have since gone through and commented almost everything out of the left and right columns and all of the code that I added to the sts display and user_code files. I've gotten it to the point that when you are looking at one of the products, all of the sections display correctly. BUT, on most (not all) other pages, the footer appears embedded in the right hand column. I would really appreciate some help on this as I have spent 2-3 days working on this and I'm not sure what to do next. Thanx, Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterr Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Hi, When I display your template , it looks okay, left and right columns, footer where it should be,etc. Therefore, the problem is being caused by modifications you have made to some of the include files, like: header.php column_left.php column_right.php footer.php that can be the only way you are getting the table misalignment, as you are now experiencing. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppollock Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 So if i make changes to sts_template does it make changes to index.php automatically? Sorry for dumb questions, but i am very new at this and still trying to figure out the mechanism of ocS with template. Can you PLEASE explain how does it wok and communicates with ocS. Thanks, Ruslan <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Ruslan, I'm no expert at these things but my understanding of STS is this: When index.php is called, it has to display something. As standard in in osC, it calls various files, which hold the diaply layout for different areas of the page, and builds the page from them. This is a fairly tricky process to visualise for many of us so this contribuion was created to allow you to create a 'template' in an HTML page, thus allowing you to create it in a WYSIWYG editor so you can see where everything is going and what it will look like. This 'template' then replaces the calls that index.php has to other files to tell it how to lay out the page and instead completely controls the layout. So when you make changes to sts_template, it doesn't actually alter the index.php file instead, when index.php asks it how to lay out the display, it will instruct it to lay out the page however you have specified. It works superbly well in my opinion and can also provide different layouts for different pages. For instance, we have a different page layout for our Checkout pages than for our product pages just to make things fit on the screen a little better. I hope this has helped Regards Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsatchell Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 In trying to fix a problem with the display of my right column I reloaded STS with the original files. Everything started working correctly but without any changes that I had made, just the default install. Then I started comparing my old files with the default files and I don't know how but the default column_right.php is radically different than my modified file. I didn't add all of the extra code so what is going on? The other thing is that the text on the $ID line is different so I'm thinking that somehow I managed to load an old version one time or the other. Here is the code from each file, they are both column_right.php Default STS file that I reverted to: <?php /* $Id: column_right.php,v 1.1 2003/09/08 19:26:22 jhtalk Exp jhtalk $ osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions http://www.oscommerce.com Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce Released under the GNU General Public License */ // STS: ADD $sts_block_name = 'columnleft2columnright'; require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE); // STS: EOADD require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php'); // STS: ADD $sts_block_name = 'reviewsbox'; require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE); ?> File that was on my server when I was having problems: <?php /* $Id: column_right.php,v 1.17 2003/06/09 22:06:41 hpdl Exp $ osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions http://www.oscommerce.com Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce Released under the GNU General Public License */ require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'shopping_cart.php'); // MY_WISHLIST v1.0 include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'wishlist.php'); // MY_WISHLIST v1.0 // if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'])) include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'manufacturer_info.php'); require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'search.php'); require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'ssl.php'); require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'information.php'); include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'currencies.php'); // if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'order_history.php'); // if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'])) { // if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) { // $check_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS_INFO . " where customers_info_id = '" . (int)$customer_id . "' and global_product_notifications = '1'"); // $check = tep_db_fetch_array($check_query); // if ($check['count'] > 0) { // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'best_sellers.php'); // } else { // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'product_notifications.php'); // } // } else { // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'product_notifications.php'); // } // } else { // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'best_sellers.php'); // } // if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'])) { // if (basename($PHP_SELF) != FILENAME_TELL_A_FRIEND) include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'tell_a_friend.php'); // } else { // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'specials.php'); // } // STS: ADD $sts_block_name = 'columnleft2columnright'; require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE); // STS: EOADD require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php'); // STS: ADD $sts_block_name = 'reviewsbox'; require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE); // STS: EOADD // if (substr(basename($PHP_SELF), 0, 8) != 'checkout') { // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'languages.php'); // include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'currencies.php'); // } ?> I would really appreciate if someone could give me an idea as to why these two versions of the same file are so different when I only made a few changes to the bottom code window. Thanx, Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 It won't be in this file. Either the unclosed tables are in your template or they're inside one of the files that generates the boxes or footer in the right column. It's already narrowed down in that the mistake is somewhere in the last 3 things to be added to the template. Go find and examine those files. Have you made any changes to anything in boxes? Iggy Quote Everything's funny but nothing's a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsatchell Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 I did finally figure out that my column_left.php had an unclosed IF ELSE statement at the very bottom of the file. But I'm still concerned as to why my original column_right.php has so much more code than the column_right.php that I pulled from the zip file? Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiwillow Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 hijacking for a second.. no matter what i do i cant get my product_info template to work.. it just comes up with the default sts_template.. i've tried everything.. is this a common bug or have i installed STS wrong, possibly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 hijacking for a second.. no matter what i do i cant get my product_info template to work.. it just comes up with the default sts_template.. i've tried everything.. is this a common bug or have i installed STS wrong, possibly? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What everything have you tried? Iggy Quote Everything's funny but nothing's a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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