I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

I tried to change the "powered by" text at the bottom & I get this message ~~~~|txt_formid_is_wrong| |bGVuZ3RoPg==|~~~~
i edited the code from here /common_files/main/prnotice.tpl

I wanted to kno if I try to restore the file will it change my whole site? or will it just change that part? I spent too many hours trying to add products & stuff & dont want to start all over. Oh & I tried to ftp & put it back but their site is under construction or something it wouldnt let me in... now I cant add products cuz of this... please help me get it back to the way it was.

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

Just upload a fresh copy of it from the original archive. And always make a backup of templates before you edit them.

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

I thought I should share my experience with minor customization to X-Cart.
Sure the webmaster tool is good, and you can hit the Restore button to undo/fix things.

Long story short, one should make a back up almost everything before attempting to mod something.

For example, I modded the product_details.tpl, which is located in Skin/2Columns, but many times I forgot that URL, and copied my modified version onto CommonFiles, meaning I would lose my backup.

In addition, I have a word document in which I record every mod that I ever done to the tpls, php, ini and anything else. The goal is in a case where I have to reproduce all the work I did, I know that I can without having to stress about, what I did.

Furthermore, I have a WAMP server which I use for development and then my Semi-Live Web Server which will turn into a proper store in a few months.

I am almost at the point where I will be testing my Word Document and see if I can reproduce what I did. Everything should be well documented.

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

Thanks! But what I wanted to know was "I wanted to kno if I try to restore the file will it change my whole site? or will it just change that part?" When it said I'll lose everything I did I was wondering will I lose everything (products, etc.)?
Thanks again!

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

An individual template just controls that portion of the site - it won't affect all of your products, etc, just that one template.

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

Well I tried to fix it but the ftp site says its under maintanance.... so I was wondering if anyone has the original code or the code that removes everything at the footer. I messed up the code so I need everything that comes underneath here:

$Id: prnotice.tpl,v 1.1 2010/05/21 08:32:18 joy Exp $
vim: set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et:
*}
{*** NOTE: If you are reselling X-Cart stores, please contact us (http://www.x-cart.com) before changing the Powered-by note here. ***}

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

Thankfully you're with Hands-on and we have automated backups of your files for you.

Go into your cPanel, click the r1soft restore option, choose the file/folder you want to restore and click the restore button. It'll pull the backup from the archives for you and you'll be back on track. Just make sure you pick a date and time prior to when you made the change.

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

damn I didnt make the switch yet ..smh.. I was in the middle of adding products & learning the cart the past few days I was scared for my site to go down... & I just paid them $50 last week & wanted to use up some of the month to learn a little since I paid for it... but best believe Im placing my order like next week b4 they try & charge me another $50. The 1 guy told me right here on the forums that he was giving me 2 weeks of support for my trouble & when I asked them to help me fix the prnotice problem they said its under consideration... man this is sum B.S.
Now I wanna just give someone a list of mods I need & pay them to set me up all the way. I did a lot of stuff myself the past few days & havent been to sleep since I bought the cart last week.... this is rough but I NEED my site to work properly!... now about that prnotice.tpl code... can anyone give it to me? Thanks in advance.

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

try this for the prnotice file;

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

In previous versions - there used to be a backup of all the original templates in a folder called skin_original. I don't see anything like that in 4.4.2. There is an empty directory called skin_backup. I am not sure what QT intends here. If this backup directory is important to you - you might consider opening an issue in the Issues Tracker about this.

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Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

In 4.4.x there is no repository for the original files although after installation you can just copy skin directory in to a new one and create that repository yourself. The new skin_backup holds the files you edited, pay attention, through the xcart interface. So if you edit any file from admin edit template its original copy will save in that directory, and if you edit it again it will save a copy including the first edit and so on. If you use ftp to browse and modify files like most of use do - no luck then, you have to take care of the backup yourself

Re: I dont want to ruin all the work i did...please help me.
 

ah, so that's what that misnomer of a directory is for...

I wuz lookin in the admin for a button entitled, "put all the skins (crapola) U don't use into the skin_backup folder for easy, one-step deletion"

or sumthin like that :-)