fairly stupid question

[switchone]

will a oscommerce 2.2 theme work on oscmax?

[michael_s]

Not without modifying it to work with BTS (template system in oscmax).

[switchone]

How would one convert it to a BTS theme?

[met00]

With a great deal of effort...

1) Look at the way osCMAX BTS works
2) Look at what you were given
3) Determine what "look and feel" components have to be changed in a BTS "theme" to work with the template
4) Make a copy of a BTS template in a new /templates/ directory
5) Apply the look and feel changes to the stock BTS template

There are really a limited number of components to a template
1) header
2) footer
3) boxes
4) content area

You really want to keep the "content area" straight osCMAX, so the issue is how the content area gets wrapped.

The boxes have their own subdirectory that you can make the changes in in the template directory. The header and footer also can be made separate calls or put inline into the main_page.tpl.php.

You may need to make additional changes to main_page.tpl.php to "wrap" the content area in your look and feel.

You will notice that main_page.tpl.phpdoes the following:
1) build the header
2) call the left side boxes
3) build the top of the content area
4) call the content file
5) build the bottom of the content area
6) call the right side boxes
7) build the footer

In some MINOR cases you may have to make some look and feel changes to the actual content files, just copy the content template from fallback template content directory into the content subdirectory for your template and modify that file with any changes you need to make.

Hard? No. Time consuming? Yes.

[switchone]

wow, that does look time consuming. The template I wanted to purchase is no longer available on the oscmax templates site. So i wanted to buy the oscommerce template that is just like it... Owell, going to have to get another one.