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#421 steepedincode

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Posted 15 November 2009, 05:17

View Posthalluzineyt, on 15 November 2009, 04:18, said:

Is there any people reading this forum??

my first question is in vain.

Another help i need how can i make different banner appear ea time the home page is refreshed . like excatly on the specials at the bottom left.. where can i set the pictures that will appear? pls help again!!!! SOS !!!

Have you looked at the settings in the Banner Manager in the Admin?

Edited by steepedincode, 15 November 2009, 05:17.


#422 halluzineyt

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Posted 15 November 2009, 11:08

View Poststeepedincode, on 15 November 2009, 05:17, said:

Have you looked at the settings in the Banner Manager in the Admin?

yes.. i have a banner running but i dont know how to make it appear randomly like after you refreshed it the next new pic will appear.

actually i read this

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but it didnt tell you where to find this line ?


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<?php
echo tep_display_banner('dynamic', '468x50');
?>

can you help me how to set all the pictures you want to show up..? and where excatly will i change this. (pls include the codes i really dont know anything about PHP) :(

#423 geoffreywalton

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Posted 15 November 2009, 20:30

You set up all the banners you want to appear on your site in banner manager and put them in a group called 468x50.

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#424 halluzineyt

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Posted 16 November 2009, 00:06

View Postgeoffreywalton, on 15 November 2009, 20:30, said:

You set up all the banners you want to appear on your site in banner manager and put them in a group called 468x50.

HTH

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thanks but as i have said i have a banner running and i know how to add them .. i just want them to multiple banner and ea appearing randomly with every page refresh.. as with the basic banner manager you could only add one and run 1 at a time right,..

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#425 halluzineyt

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Posted 16 November 2009, 10:16

View Posthalluzineyt, on 16 November 2009, 00:06, said:

thanks but as i have said i have a banner running and i know how to add them .. i just want them to multiple banner and ea appearing randomly with every page refresh.. as with the basic banner manager you could only add one and run 1 at a time right,..


i have read that making your banner dynamic makes it appear randomly.. now i got a new problem can somebody point me where can i find the codes when the banner is on the homepage like this?? My link

and also i would like to add a banner on the bottom of every product to answer my problem about the postage and warranties ,i tried to add the line for adding banner on product_info.php but i always get some error can someone help me which LINE i can put it all in just the LINE PLS
<?php
  if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '450x450')) {
?>
<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
	<td align="center"><?php echo tep_display_banner('static', $banner); ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<?php
  }
?>

pls just tell me the LOCATION i know what will i do now..

im not getting any cool help from here yet.. :-"

Edited by halluzineyt, 16 November 2009, 10:21.


#426 stickitinsoil

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Posted 18 November 2009, 09:34

Hi, I may be being really stupid here, but I've just installed oscommerce, and everything is working an looking good except customer login, registration account and checkout pages. When I click on a link to them I get a 404 Not found page. I have installed google checkout although the only installation instructions I've found are very un clear. I think I might have to copy some html code somewhere or something but no idea where. What do I have to do to get this working? Please help, I'm running out of hair to pull out!

Thanks

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Posted 18 November 2009, 15:31

View Poststickitinsoil, on 18 November 2009, 09:34, said:

Hi, I may be being really stupid here, but I've just installed oscommerce, and everything is working an looking good except customer login, registration account and checkout pages. When I click on a link to them I get a 404 Not found page. I have installed google checkout although the only installation instructions I've found are very un clear. I think I might have to copy some html code somewhere or something but no idea where. What do I have to do to get this working? Please help, I'm running out of hair to pull out!

Thanks

Luke

Ran into a similar problem once, and it had to do with HTTPS. Check the values for HTTPS in /includes/config.php and make sure they match your site. IOW, if you don't have secure hosting, config.php might be set for https:// when none exists. A 404 will result.

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Posted 25 November 2009, 09:53

View PostChronoz, on 30 June 2008, 16:49, said:

2. … Change the What’s New Here on the front page?
Go to catalog/includes/languages/English/index.php
Find the following line and change it to what you want it to say
CODE
define('HEADING_TITLE', 'What\'s New Here?');

I'd like to change this from text to an image.
For example, I don't want the title to be "What's New Here?", but rather to display my Welcome.png logo. How?

#429 STUD69

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Posted 25 November 2009, 12:12

View PostSTUD69, on 25 November 2009, 09:53, said:

I'd like to change this from text to an image.
For example, I don't want the title to be "What's New Here?", but rather to display my Welcome.png logo. How?

Ignore the above. I worked it out myself thanks.
For those who would like to know, here is the AFTER coding:

define('HEADING_TITLE', '<img src="images/your_image.jpg">');

Just copy and paste the above near the end of the shop//includes/languages/english/index.php folder over the existing:
define('HEADING_TITLE', etc etc line.

Insert the name of your image where is states "your_image.jpg"
Don't forget to also upload your image to the images folder.

Easy done.

Edited by STUD69, 25 November 2009, 12:13.


#430 hannja

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Posted 26 November 2009, 10:44

thx for
Step 4. … Change the default text on the front page?
Go to catalog/includes/languages/English/index.php
Find the following line that starts with the following (about line 13 – usually the first one ) and change it to what you want it to say

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'TEXT_MAIN', 'This is a default setup …… . PROJECT_VERSION . '</b></font>.');');

But what does the "this is a default setup ... ... . PROJECT_VERSION' mean?
Can I exchange the "this is a default setup" in my own words? e.g. "setup" or is the text preinstalled?

Hanna

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Posted 27 November 2009, 04:09

View Posthannja, on 26 November 2009, 10:44, said:

thx for
Step 4. … Change the default text on the front page?
Go to catalog/includes/languages/English/index.php
Find the following line that starts with the following (about line 13 – usually the first one ) and change it to what you want it to say

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'TEXT_MAIN', 'This is a default setup …… . PROJECT_VERSION . '</b></font>.');');

But what does the "this is a default setup ... ... . PROJECT_VERSION' mean?
Can I exchange the "this is a default setup" in my own words? e.g. "setup" or is the text preinstalled?

Hanna

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change it to what you want it to say


#432 halluzineyt

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Posted 27 November 2009, 04:45

any suggestion how will i add 2 banner vertically on the middle of my shop ..

look at this?
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how can i make another banner below my first banner ?? what part is it?

and also can you teach me couple of things?

how can i move all the categories at left a bit further away from the logo?? how can i move it down..

and lastly move the shopping cart at top to the bottom of the banners pls help!!!

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Posted 02 December 2009, 21:56

View PostCABass, on 30 September 2009, 19:13, said:

Has this been answered?

Hello, I am wondering if you found a solution to your problem outlined in this post? If you did I would appreciate it if you could post the answer.

Thanks.

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Posted 08 December 2009, 23:52

how to add border around osc are? there was a suggestion in the begining of the topic to add script to header. and footer and css, but it didn't help me, why?
thank you
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Posted 16 December 2009, 07:54

I have just installed osCommerce and carried out much of its customisations. My payment gateway provider is SSL secured as are any other data collecting services. Therefore, it is not necessary for me to have an SSL secured website. During setup, we specified that we have SSL installed. However, I want to change this to non-SSL and execute the website as http and not https except were we pass to the payment gateway. I know I read it somewhere, but cannot find it again. I do not want to redo the installation just to get to the panel that requests this state. Can anyone help me change to this situation?

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Posted 17 December 2009, 04:31

View PostNigel_Hendrikz, on 16 December 2009, 07:54, said:

I have just installed osCommerce and carried out much of its customisations. My payment gateway provider is SSL secured as are any other data collecting services. Therefore, it is not necessary for me to have an SSL secured website. During setup, we specified that we have SSL installed. However, I want to change this to non-SSL and execute the website as http and not https except were we pass to the payment gateway. I know I read it somewhere, but cannot find it again. I do not want to redo the installation just to get to the panel that requests this state. Can anyone help me change to this situation?
It's a mistake not to have an ssl installed. The one your gateway provider provides only protects the data going to them. It doesn't do anything for the customer data on your site. With ssl's costing so little, or even free if you use your hosts shared one, there really isn't any reason not to have one. It will more than pay for itself in the sales you will not lose as a result.

But if you still want to do that, you just need to edit the includes/configure.php file. You'll see the option to turn off the ssl there.

#437 LewisM

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Posted 21 December 2009, 13:15

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3. … Change the Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in? Or would you prefer to create an account on the front page?
Go to catalog/includes/languages/English/index.php
Find the following line and change it to what you want it to say [code define('TEXT_GREETING_GUEST', 'Welcome <span class="greetUser">Guest!</span> Would you like to <a href="%s"><u>log yourself in</u></a>? Or would you prefer to <a href="%s"><u>create an account</u></a>?'); [/code]

Just a quick thing, this is now in includes>Languages>English.php around line 280 :)

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Posted 14 January 2010, 18:30

hi

could some 1 please help??? i'm pulling my hair out over this issue i have. i am a total newbie at this and what i have done is delete all currencies and left the GBP 1 i put in there. now all my prices are gone but i havnt switched the "use default language currency" to true it is as standard???

any help would be greatly apreciated

thanks paul

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Posted 15 January 2010, 04:09

View Poststumpy head, on 14 January 2010, 18:30, said:

could some 1 please help??? i'm pulling my hair out over this issue i have. i am a total newbie at this and what i have done is delete all currencies and left the GBP 1 i put in there. now all my prices are gone but i havnt switched the "use default language currency" to true it is as standard???

any help would be greatly apreciated
I'm not sure I understand the problem but if you don't have a default currency, can't you just go into admin->Localization->Currencies and add one?

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Posted 17 January 2010, 17:56

View Postjustmeir, on 13 April 2008, 19:34, said:

Everything OK, thanks :thumbsup:
is so great!