Help adding new box

[Jack_mcs]

I want to add a small form to the left column that just has a text box and a submit button so visitors can add themselves to a mailing list. I don't know enough php to do it that way so I figure to just use html. In wiki under Create new Box, there are instructions for adding a box. It says to make a copy of information.php, renamed to mailinglist.php in my case, and to insert two lines into column_left.php:

 

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'mailinglist.php');

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'information.php');

 

My mailinglist.php is basically empty for now (shown below). If I try it just as mentioned, I get two information boxes since I already have require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'information.php'); in column_left.php. If I try to insert some code into mailinglist.php, it is displayed above the first information box but is not contained in a box itself. If I comment out the second require above, then mailinglist.php doesn't get displayed at all. I'm totally confused with this. Does anyone know how to do this?

 

Jack

 

<?php

/*

$Id: mailinglist.php,v 1.6 2003/02/10 22:31:00 hpdl Exp $

 

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Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

 

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

?>

<!-- mailinglist //-->

 

<tr>

<td>

 

</td>

</tr>

<!-- mailinglist_eof //-->