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[Chango1337]

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

[balinor]

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:

{elseif $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""}
{include file="customer/main/welcome.tpl" f_products=$f_products}

[daniel.milosevic]

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

[Stephen Hatton]

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

[Chango1337]

Thank you very much it worked perfectly

[daniel.milosevic]

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.

[balinor]

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.