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Lotti,

I'm assuming you are using a header include template and possibly a footer template as well? If so, then either your main template (your middle template) or the footer template could be throwing it all off. Everything needs to line up.

 

Sorry Bill you have lost me. I use the index.php.html template - I'm not aware of using any other templates - sorry could you expand your answer?

 

Thanks

 

Lotti

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Hi,

 

I've manged to "get my feet wet" and learn a couple of things with STS. Now I need help with somethig:

How do I change the front page's "new products" into "featured products"?

I would also be nice to add the featured products to certain categories and remove those subcategories pages...

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Hey Bill!

 

A quick (and hopefully easy) question: How do I name the special template file for a logged in customer? On my index.php_0.html I have (amongst other things) two buttons - Register & Login.

When a customer has logged in I don´t want the buttons to be visible and some different text shown as well.

 

I did try index.php_00.html and index.php_01.html but failed.

 

So a certain index.php_x.html for the logged in customers is what I am after... Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

Anybody...?? Please, please... :-" I thought this was kind of easy question but maybe I'm wrong? :'(

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Anybody...?? Please, please... :-" I thought this was kind of easy question but maybe I'm wrong? :'(

 

The easiest way I can think of would not be to use different templates, but instead to write your php to check and see if people are logged in or not. So you would have something like:

 

if customer is logged in {

do this

} else {

do this

}

 

You can have php script in your template files - just make sure to include the opening and closing <?php ?> tags around your php code.

 

I don't believe STS is currently setup to create templates based on whether or not a person is logged in (I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am). My guess is that you would need to go through and re-write quite a bit of code in STS to add a new system for finding and creating templates based on whether or not the customer is logged in. I personally think the above method would be much easier ;)

~Tracy
 

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Hi,

 

I've manged to "get my feet wet" and learn a couple of things with STS. Now I need help with somethig:

How do I change the front page's "new products" into "featured products"?

I would also be nice to add the featured products to certain categories and remove those subcategories pages...

 

I believe you would need to go into your catalog/index.php file - find the php code that is requiring the new products section and change it to require the featured products section.

 

Not quite sure what you mean by adding featured products to certain categories and removing subcategories

~Tracy
 

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Anybody...?? Please, please... whistling.gif I thought this was kind of easy question but maybe I'm wrong? :'(

John,

Take a look at the sample template in the template folder "full". Look at the text links in the upper-right corner of the template. The "$myaccountlogoff" has a different text depending upon if the user has logged in or not.

 

:thumbsup: The STS tag above is created in catalog/includes/modules/sts_inc/general.php.

 

Hope this helps,

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Hi,

 

I've manged to "get my feet wet" and learn a couple of things with STS. Now I need help with somethig:

How do I change the front page's "new products" into "featured products"?

I would also be nice to add the featured products to certain categories and remove those subcategories pages...

Bogdan,

 

You would need to install the Featured Products contribution. This will replace the New Products for Month as well as give you complete control over what products are displayed.

 

:thumbsup: If you decide to install it, notice the version that I created that has simple step by step installation instructions that also take notice of STS users (July 15, 2007 version).

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,651

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Sorry Bill you have lost me. I use the index.php.html template - I'm not aware of using any other templates - sorry could you expand your answer?

 

Thanks

 

Lotti

Lotti,

OK, then I would start looking at the rest of your template page to see what width tag is incorrect. Something within your template is causing the rest of the page to not line up correctly. Start with the body tag and then go from there. This is either a HTML or CSS issue within your template page.

 

I'm making a big assumption that you are using a stock version of osC that has not had any of the design elements modified. If not, then the problem could be coming from your index.php file or one of the column_left.php, column_right.php, header.php or footer.php files.

 

Bill

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Morning. I am using sts (wonderful system - I'm liking it) and things are going well except for one thing...

 

I have "Use template for infoboxes" set to true in the modules and that does, indeed, seem to be working - I change boxes/infobox.php.html and all the infoboxes change - excellent. However, it also changes the box where the list of products show when you click on the category. I have modified boxes/infobox_product_listing.php.html but it doesn't seem to effect anything - it's almost as if STS doesn't believe the file is there.

 

So...does anybody have any suggestions as to what I can do to be able to modify the box that lists the products?

 

Thanks

 

M.

Martin,

There are two types of infoboxes and STS will template both types as long as you get the naming syntax correct.

 

For the boxes in includes/boxes folder, you would follow the syntax: infobox_information.php.html.

For the catalog scripts that are displayed in boxes, you would follow the syntax: catalog_shopping_cart.php.html.

 

:thumbsup: I think the template name that you need would be infobox_product_listing.php.html.

 

:thumbsup: Look at Chapter 6 of the STS User Manual for detailed information on the above.

 

Hope this helped,

Bill Kellum

 

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Thanks for the reply, Bill - it's appreciated.

 

I can't believe my stupidity - I have modified my site to use 3 columns of products on the category page so I should have used the file infobox_product_listing_col.php.html instead. All working fine now.

 

Thanks and all the best.

 

Martin

 

Martin,

There are two types of infoboxes and STS will template both types as long as you get the naming syntax correct.

 

For the boxes in includes/boxes folder, you would follow the syntax: infobox_information.php.html.

For the catalog scripts that are displayed in boxes, you would follow the syntax: catalog_shopping_cart.php.html.

 

:thumbsup: I think the template name that you need would be infobox_product_listing.php.html.

 

:thumbsup: Look at Chapter 6 of the STS User Manual for detailed information on the above.

 

Hope this helped,

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John,

Take a look at the sample template in the template folder "full". Look at the text links in the upper-right corner of the template. The "$myaccountlogoff" has a different text depending upon if the user has logged in or not.

 

:thumbsup: The STS tag above is created in catalog/includes/modules/sts_inc/general.php.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Man thanks for your time and effort Bill and TracyS!

1. I did look at the $myaccountlogoff in different ways but couldn´t spot any difference...?

2. Furthermore am I´m afraid that my coding skills won´t make me understand how to change the statements/tags in session.php.

I have a small hunch though that it´s somewhere in these lines? Could that be correct?

 

	if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {
  $sts->template['myaccount'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urlmyaccount'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['logoff'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL')  . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urllogoff'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['myaccountlogoff'] = $sts->template['myaccount'] . " | " . $sts->template['logoff'];
// Next tags added in v4.3
		$sts->template['loginofflogo'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . tep_image(STS_TEMPLATE_DIR.'images/'.$language . '/header_logoff.gif', HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF) . '</a>';
} else {
  $sts->template['myaccount'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urlmyaccount'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['logoff'] = '';
  $sts->template['urllogoff'] = '';
  $sts->template['myaccountlogoff'] = $sts->template['myaccount'];

 

 

Thanks again! :thumbsup:

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I was thinking about adding the Google Analytics Module, until I found this on Google Analytics site.

 

Google Analytics can track data from a shopping cart on your own domain, or even on other domains, with the addition of some code. If your store site is on a different subdomain or domain than your main site, follow the instructions below to configure your pages.

 

If your website initiates a purchase checkout process on a different subdomain (for example, if you send customers from www.mystore.com to shoppingcart.mystore.com):

 

Add the following line (in bold) to your tracking code on both your store site and your shopping cart pages:

 

<script type=quot;text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxx-x");
pageTracker._setDomainName("mystore.com");
pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true);
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

 

In theory this should work with osCommerce too if I add the above code into my STS Templates, does anybody see why it would not? Or should I just stick with the module here on osCommerce?

Powered By osC 2.2RC2a STS 4.5.8 - HTC 2.6.3 - FP 1.5.9 - BCH 1.0.0

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Hello

Does anyone know if this is compatible with Seperate Pricing per customer contribution?

 

thanks

 

I have seen it as one of the many contribs TracyS has in her signature, so it should be compatible...

 

Kind regards,

Gina

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Man thanks for your time and effort Bill and TracyS!

1. I did look at the $myaccountlogoff in different ways but couldn´t spot any difference...?

2. Furthermore am I´m afraid that my coding skills won´t make me understand how to change the statements/tags in session.php.

I have a small hunch though that it´s somewhere in these lines? Could that be correct?

 

	if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {
  $sts->template['myaccount'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urlmyaccount'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['logoff'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL')  . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urllogoff'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['myaccountlogoff'] = $sts->template['myaccount'] . " | " . $sts->template['logoff'];
// Next tags added in v4.3
		$sts->template['loginofflogo'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . tep_image(STS_TEMPLATE_DIR.'images/'.$language . '/header_logoff.gif', HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF) . '</a>';
} else {
  $sts->template['myaccount'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urlmyaccount'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['logoff'] = '';
  $sts->template['urllogoff'] = '';
  $sts->template['myaccountlogoff'] = $sts->template['myaccount'];

Thanks again! :thumbsup:

 

Yes - you are correct. So, if you want a table displayed, for example, based on if someone is logged in or not, you would have something like this in your template:

<?pho

if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

?>

<table><tr><td>You are logged in!</td></tr></table>

<?php

} else {

?>

<table><tr><td>Please Log In!</td></tr></table>

<?php

}

?>

 

Does that help you?

~Tracy
 

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Hello

Does anyone know if this is compatible with Seperate Pricing per customer contribution?

 

thanks

 

Yes, it is :) You just have to remember to change the catalog/includes/modules/sts_inc/product_info.php file similar to the way you change the catalog/product_info.php file :thumbsup:

~Tracy
 

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Hi, I just installed a fresh version of 2.2 RC2a ...the latest version available from osCommerce ..... i did nothing to it, and then copied the files designated for RC2 from STSv4.5.8_1_2 ..... when I click on the STS module from the admin panel and go to install however, nothing happens.

 

2.2RC2a, is this a slightly newer version than plain RC2? has anyone gotten STS to work on RC2a?

 

please help!

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Is there a way of having the index.php page different to the others controlled by STS? I have put it in index.php.html but that changes the template for the whole site - can you just do it so the index.php is different?

 

Thanks.

 

M.

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Yes, it is :) You just have to remember to change the catalog/includes/modules/sts_inc/product_info.php file similar to the way you change the catalog/product_info.php file :thumbsup:

It should be noted that this modification is only necessary if you use product_info "content" templates, otherwise, STS will use the default product_info.php file.

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Is there a way of having the index.php page different to the others controlled by STS? I have put it in index.php.html but that changes the template for the whole site - can you just do it so the index.php is different?

 

Thanks.

 

M.

Martin, this has come up in this thread several times recently.

You need to create a template named index.php_0.html for your home page template.

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Hi, I just installed a fresh version of 2.2 RC2a ...the latest version available from osCommerce ..... i did nothing to it, and then copied the files designated for RC2 from STSv4.5.8_1_2 ..... when I click on the STS module from the admin panel and go to install however, nothing happens.

 

2.2RC2a, is this a slightly newer version than plain RC2? has anyone gotten STS to work on RC2a?

 

please help!

Yes, RC2a is a small update from RC2. The STS installation works with the RC2 and STS files for the RC2a release. Check that your FTP software did in deed upload the necessary files to complete the installation.

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Man thanks for your time and effort Bill and TracyS!

1. I did look at the $myaccountlogoff in different ways but couldn´t spot any difference...?

2. Furthermore am I´m afraid that my coding skills won´t make me understand how to change the statements/tags in session.php.

I have a small hunch though that it´s somewhere in these lines? Could that be correct?

 

	if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {
  $sts->template['myaccount'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urlmyaccount'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['logoff'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL')  . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urllogoff'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['myaccountlogoff'] = $sts->template['myaccount'] . " | " . $sts->template['logoff'];
// Next tags added in v4.3
		$sts->template['loginofflogo'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . tep_image(STS_TEMPLATE_DIR.'images/'.$language . '/header_logoff.gif', HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF) . '</a>';
} else {
  $sts->template['myaccount'] = '<a href=' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . ' class="headerNavigation">' . HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT . '</a>';
  $sts->template['urlmyaccount'] = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL');
  $sts->template['logoff'] = '';
  $sts->template['urllogoff'] = '';
  $sts->template['myaccountlogoff'] = $sts->template['myaccount'];

 

 

Thanks again! :thumbsup:

 

Yes, it is already done for you in those lines above. All you have to do is use the STS tags created in the code above. STS will automatically show a different link depending upon whether the user is logged in or not. Use the tags above in your template and try it out and you will see that it works.

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Yes, RC2a is a small update from RC2. The STS installation works with the RC2 and STS files for the RC2a release. Check that your FTP software did in deed upload the necessary files to complete the installation.

 

 

Hi I tried it twice. I completely removed the database, files, etc and re-did the oscommerce installation, then uploaded the sts rc2 files and the same issue - i click 'install' in the admin panel an it refreshes with no change. i really like STS and have never had a problem with it....if you have any more advice or knowledge about sts on rc2 please let me know. thank you

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Hi I tried it twice. I completely removed the database, files, etc and re-did the oscommerce installation, then uploaded the sts rc2 files and the same issue - i click 'install' in the admin panel an it refreshes with no change. i really like STS and have never had a problem with it....if you have any more advice or knowledge about sts on rc2 please let me know. thank you
Niki, There is not any known issues between STS and osC RC2a. Did you upload the STS files as well as the RC2 files to the correct folders?

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Niki, There is not any known issues between STS and osC RC2a. Did you upload the STS files as well as the RC2 files to the correct folders?

 

Hey there....3rd time was the charm! I am thinking the client's hosting sucks?

 

Anyway, thanks for your speedy help...love the contribution and its essential for the ecommerce web work that i get....this is the best one to date (credits to the designer) www.capostore.com/catalog ...its not officially running yet as we hammer out the details but the design is there....

 

thanks!

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