Excluding Welcome_tpl
 

High Ive been trying to sort out some things on my site could you please help.

I would like to take out the customer welcome tpl altogether Ive narrowed it down I think to customer_main_tpl but cant actually get it to go ??

Thanks

Please post your x-cart version number in your signature.

To remove the welcome message, just remove or comment this line of code out of home_main.tpl:

Silly Question? How do you exactly comment in the TPL files?
Thanks, a learning newb. :wink:

Comments in templates and php files
 

Hi Daniel


I comment a .tpl file with "open curly bracket" "star" Put Your Comment Here or to disable a line of the template file "star" " close curly bracket"

eg:
{* Modified by SWH on 050127 *}
{* //skin1/customer/main/register.tpl *}
{* Original Version embedded in comments after the modified lines labelled SWH *}

If you wish to comment out multiple lines:
{*
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
*}

Make sure that there are no {* or *} (other comments) inside your commented area. Otherwise it will run everything from *} to the last *}.

I also put a marker on the lines I have changed in the .tpl files - I use:
{* SWH *}

That way I can find changes quickly inside the files and from outside the files.

Note - any changes to the files will give issues in upgrades (if that file requires upgrading). See my post for further help:
http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=14640


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For .php files I use the following method to comment files:

/* Modified by SWH 041222 */
/* yoursite/include/func.php file being modified */
/* Original Version embedded in comments after the modified lines labelled SWH */

I then comment at the end of lines with
// SWH
for the lines I have modified.
If you wish you can put a
# at the start of the line to comment out the whole line (eg. disable a line of code).

For program line codes make sure that you have a semicolon terminating the line with no spaces after it (or you will get a blank screen & php errors).


I hope this helps you and others. Remember to backup often and keep a copy of the original file to use for restoring (in case Murphy should visit!).

Regards
Ing. Stephen Hatton
:idea:

Thank you very much it worked perfectly :)

Thanks for the info, that is exactly why I need to comment my tpl and php files.

Theres alot of comments that need to be added to all of the template files.

Thanks again for the info.

Hey Stephen, it would be great if you could write a seperate post for this and have the mods move it to the FAQ forum. This question gets asked MILLIONS of times. :)