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[Sruly Markowitz]

I want to use htaccess to point to a static page as my home page. This is because my categories and other dynamic content will not be changing often, but my design will, and I do not want to have to call a developer every time I want to add a banner or a promotion to the front page. I am proficient in HTML CSS but not in smarty/php

However, I do want to include the quicksearch feature (quicksearch.tpl) in my static page.

My static page is at root level (I skinned it to match the xcart theme exactly), so how do I go about including the quicksearch.tpl feature in my static page?

Thanks

P.S.
I tried
{PHP}
{include file="skin/storesigns-2column/customer/quicksearch.tpl"}
{/PHP}

but that didnt work

[cherie]

You don't need the {php} tags and you don't need to include the skin directory. Something like this should be all you need:

{include file="customer/quicksearch.tpl"}

[Sruly Markowitz]

That works, thanks. But is there a way to make it work on root level static pages.
The 'parse smarty tags' checkbox is enabled, but it is only for embedded static pages.

Thanks

[cherie]

Nope, not in static html files.

There are ways around this like adding something to htaccess so that all of your html files are parsed for php then adding X-Cart's php/smarty framework to the top of the html file, but I wouldn't recommend doing that.

[Sruly Markowitz]

Do you mean adding
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm
to my htaccess

What do I have to do (X4.4) to add the smarty php framework to the top of my html file?

I'd like to try it this way. I think in the long run it will be simpler than using an embedded page.

[cherie]

Typically if you need a new page with php/tpl functionality you would create another php page like the ones that X-Cart already includes, add an entry to customer/home_main.tpl, and add a new tpl file.