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[JulieCSM]

jaavi, on Nov 4 2003, 08:02 PM, said:

Hi, Julie.

Thanks for the quick response and the time you spend sharing the hack, it must have taken you a while to sort and organize it before posting. I have created all my files and looking forward to start on it early in the morning.

Joe.

Great! Let me know when you've done it and I'll come and have a nosey.

It's always good to get new ideas - I thought I'd finished my store when I went live back in September but it seems every day I'm tweaking something.

[ryno267]

Hey Julie...
Ive started this thread: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=64467
and i'm looking for something similar to what you have already, but to sortof take it to the next step, by only having the sub categories in the left nav when you click on one of the main category tabs up top...

Let me know what you think....
and did you release this mod to the contributions section?
thanks

[JulieCSM]

I haven't released it as a contrib. There is already a tabs contrib which automatically puts in the name of each category, but I don't think you can do other pages also.

This is more work in that you have to create each image separately, but it also gives you more control.

It could certainly use some community development - it would be nice for the 'on' tab to work in sub categories as well as top level categories.

I might.

Haven't had chance to look at your thread yet.

[kymation]

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I'd like to know how you can tell that.

Well, that was extremely stupid of me. I had saved a copy of your page so that I could look at it in my code editor, and I completely forgot that I wasn't looking at the real page anymore. D'oh! Where's that embarassed smiley when I need one?

Anyway, you found the problem, so all is well despite my lack of intelligence. Nice job on the tabs, by the way.

Regards
Jim

[jaavi]

Julie,

Just as you said I made a file called it extraheader.php which contained the whole script and put it in the 'catalog/includes' folder and I inserted the call in the header.php and I put the pics(which I borrowed from you) in the images folder.

I have not a thing from the new navbar showing in the store, I deleted the whole store and reinstalled the whole store and redid the navbar again, still no joy, I am perl person and do not have much experience with .php, but following the code it seems that all is perfect and logical, maybe I am missing something , did you encounter this kind of problem at first!? there is no error, nothing, it's just like nothing has been done on the cart.

At the moment I am building a cart http://4xact.com/ for a lingerie shop which is based on clickcartPro and it's a very nice and versatile cart to work with and it's written in perl with open source.
You can check it out but be warned! some of it's pages may have necked women which maybe offending to some people.

Regards,

Joey.

[JulieCSM]

Hmm. Do you have a link to the test store?

And can you post the code in the header.php file?

[JerseyNB]

Julie: Very nice I like this one better than the one you had up first,
now try working on a better looking logo and that will let the site look more appealing.

[jaavi]

Julie,

http://ariojames.com/

Above is the link both for admin and store, I think you can reach the files through the admin too no!?

I also post the ftp details, probably it's better you see the code for yourself in context to the rest.
(Don't worry about me posting it here, this is a temporary hosting so I will soon be deleting it)

ftp details;

host: xactlingerie.hypermart.net
userid: xactlingerie
password: pass1111

Thanks,

Joey.

[JulieCSM]

All I get is a message saying:

Unable to connect to database server!

For both admin and store . . .

[jaavi]

Julie,

I had changed the password in order to post it on the forum, apparently hypermart does not chage it for the mysql, so thats why it could not connect to the dtabase, so I changed it back the original password. the url is ok now, can I send the ftp details to you via email or via your website?

[JulieCSM]

OK - the short answer is, I haven't a clue why it's not working.

You have put everything in the right place. When I view the source code for your page I get this

<!-- additional header bit //-->
<!-- additional header bit_eof //-->

So basically it just isn't calling the page at all! Or if it is, the code is not producing anything to see, so the source code produces nothing.

I tried putting the code directly into the header, which is where I had it originally, but then it just totally ignored the header and didn't even show the banner, so I had to put it back. This is odd, because when I had it in the header it worked perfectly. I just made a separate file for the sake of osc protocols and neatness.

All I can think is that it is something to do with the fact that you are using a different version to me. Maybe the code in the extraheader.php file needs to be prettied up to fit in with whichever version you are using.

Unfortunately, this is beyond my skills. Matt might be able to help a little more as he wrote the original code.

Sorry

[jaavi]

Thanks very much for you effort at least we know where the problem is and as you suggested it may be the version problem, which version are you using I might try it on that one to see what happens until I get some feed back from Matt,
by the way where is the best place to post in order to get his attention.

[jaavi]

Julie,

Just thought to let you know that Matt has it fixed for me.

Regards,

Joey.

[JulieCSM]

Yay - glad he could help you. Matt is a decent chap!

Was I right, was it because your version is different? I had a little nosey in your file (hope you don't mind) and I did notice a couple of changes in the code, which I wouldn't have had the first clue how to do.

You know I would have helped you if I could.

Let me know when you have customised it to your site and I will come and check it out.

[jaavi]

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You know I would have helped you if I could.

You helped me great deal, at the end we both have the same taste, you know there are so many menus out there, but this menu type is my favorite, the visitor to the site always know where they are, I would not have a clue where to start, actually my first visit to the osCommerce forum the first thing I noticed was your post, so when I read on, I saw that you and Matt already done the work.

Talk to you later.

[JulieCSM]

Did you know that your "Hi Matt" thread has disappeared? I got the email to say you had replied and I went to see what you ahd put and it wasn't there!!

[jaavi]

You are right I just checked, I couldn't find it eather, is it possible that some one from the admin has deleted it, may be the code was posted at the wrong place!?

[JulieCSM]

Hmm - I can't think of any valid reason for it to have been deleted! Maybe it was an accident. Did you see my response about securing your admin?

Try asking the mod of that forum - he will probably be able to tell you why it was deleted. It wasn't even moved somewhere else, I searched the whole forum!

[iiinetworks]

JulieCSM, on Nov 6 2003, 09:47 AM, said:

Hmm - I can't think of any valid reason for it to have been deleted! Maybe it was an accident. Did you see my response about securing your admin?

Try asking the mod of that forum - he will probably be able to tell you why it was deleted. It wasn't even moved somewhere else, I searched the whole forum!

It was deleted because the moderator couldn't find the original code in the contributions area (see forum rules about discussing code). He sent me a PM first, but I didn't get it until afterwards.

Just FYI, it probably would not have been deleted if there had been a link to the original thread in it (not this one here, but this one). Of course, by the time that this occurred to me, the thread was already gone. I'm glad that jaavi got a chance to see my answer first.

Cheers,
Matt

[monkey212]

i just installed it on my shop,the link is right below this post