Please Help, I'm going CRAZY!!!
 

I'mm trying to add a static html page and have a link to it from anywhere on my site. I dont' ahve the new template manager with the static page feature and every message I've tried from this board does not work. i can get a page to work under the help menu but I dont' wnat it to be under the help menu I want it to be it's own page that I can link to from wherever I want.

Any help would be greatl appreciated.

Thanks

Could you describe this more ? Or do you have an example - specific ?

I am not sure if I understand, but you could make a Static Page with any Editor like Frontpage, Golive or Dreamweaver (my favorite) or any text editor you like and upload the page to anywhere you like, and with the New Speedbar for example give it the exact location and Viola....

Not sure if that is what you mean ?

Well I want it to be integrated into the cart just like the pages in the help file are. So I created a static_page.tpl file and then did a link for home.php?mode=static_page blah blah

I put that link in the home.tpl file but it does not work.

Oh, if I get it right you are complicating things unnecesarily.

OPTION 1:
If it is to insert a some small page just on the left panel, you use the following line in your home.tpl file under the customers directory:
{include file="directory/to/file.html"}

OPTION 2:
On the other hand, if you have a complete page in mind (to appear in the middle of the site) but keeping all categories and menus visible, then just add a page thru your Admin Panel:
1. The last option on your admin panel says "Static Pages", click that.
2. There you can add information that will be automatically parsed thru your cart system and will appear under the help section, related to the language you are currently using for your admin.
3. Add a title and the text to the page, and simple HTML tags if you wish and save the file as enabled.
4. Go to your customers directory and you will see the link (with the title you gave the page) under the help section.

OPTION 3:
If you just need to add a link to some other page to open up on the site, but not within the cart system, just add this to your home.tpl file, in the area you want it to appear:
<center>
YOUR TITLE
</center>

Now remember that if you are trying to add a page to the home.tpl file as you described, it should work without problems, but if you are adding that link in a conditional section it will only appear if the section is enabled. (eg. if you added it to the section in home.tpl file under Bestsellers [before the closing IF tag] it will not appear unless you have bestsellers enabled).

Hope that can help.

I want to do option 2 but my version of x-cart does not have the static page feature. That is why I'm not being able to do this easily. I have a .tpl file that I want to show up in the middle of the page and have the link to that page show up in the left menu.

Ok, then you are going to have to use this:

- In your home.tpl file, under { include file="help.tpl" }, add this:
Your Title


- And your page file could look like this:
{* $Id: yourpage.tpl,v 1.13 2004/01/04 07:06:43 zorg Exp $ *}
Your content

But I would highly recommend you to update, it would make your life easier in the future, unless you are planning to only insert this page.

but will that showup within the cart?

I get page not found it says it's looking for:

http://mydomain.com/customer/mypage.tpl?SESSID=9d1d6252841d00b07c4a28a9ecae44c7

Oh shoot, sorry about that, obviously a tpl file needs to be parsed first, so please use it this way:

I appreciate your help but if you look at my original post you will see that i don't want the page to be under the help section. I want the page to be a link under category or wherever i choose to place it. So if i made mypage.tpl I want it under say Categories and when you click on it the page comes up in the cart template.

Does that make sense?

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=2158

Follow the instructions here.

Just add your link wherever you want it to go and not in the help menu if that's where you do not want it to go. You cannot directly reference .tpl files.

You could also read the X-Cart FAQ. It's full of Frequently Asked Questions. ;)

I have seen this instructions but these are for adding a new page to the help section and I dont' want to do that. I want to add a new page under the category section. Can this not be done?

It's the same principle.

It's not that hard. Create the page. Insert the link wherever in your cart you would like. Done.

The reason why you keep getting referred to this post is that you double posted your issue, and that this is the time honoured way that dozens of users have learned to add pages to their carts before static pages.

It is the perfect answer if you would be willing to read through and understand it.

If you need more help I suggest you hire someone to do it, because this is by far one of the simplest mods you could do.

I'm sorry that I have not been able to figure this out. I have read the post several times and have copied the methods step by step. The only thing I can think of is our cart is heavily modified by xcart so maybe that is why it's not working so easy as everyone says it is.

:(

GEEZ. From that post.

Read the X-Cart FAQ. They have a complete walk thru on how to add an About Us page.



You DON'T have to put in the help section, that is just an example. If you are having trouble adding hyperlinks to your cart, perhaps you should hire professional help. Not everyone feels comfortable mucking around under the hood of the X-cart car.

Then there are those of us who are a bit too zealous! :oops:
Just remember to backup.

Janet

Well manipulating TEmplate files is not as dangerous as with php files, but yes it is better to have a backup always.

TIP: instead of just uploading a tgz file to your server.... open it up on your PC and make changes locally and FTP them to your server, that way you always have a local change log (if you could call it that way) ready in case you messed up a file.

As with TPL files they are much easier to manipulate that way, cause you could have both skin1 and skin1_original folders available on your server just in case.

Ok,

I have it working almost. I have followed the instructions and placed the link from where I want it but now when the page goes up I get this:

Home :: Help Zone ::

How can I make the Help Zone :: go way or change it to say Features ::

Thanks