Why is adding pages so hard??

[netviper]

I have been following the instrucitons here: adding_new_dynamic_content_pages [osCMax and osCommerce documentation]

It is extrmely difficult if something doesn't work. I have been going over the steps twice now and still can't figure out why my page doesn't work. All I get is TEXT_FILE_DOES_NOT_EXIST in the admin.

I can't find where I messed up. Why is this so hard? Why is there not a simple tool to ad pages?

[jpf]

You possably missing a few files - like first of all in admin/define/languages/(english)/define_(name of new page).php

Second of all your missing a blank file of the file you want to display.
ie: Possibly...
1.6 - Copy includes/languages/english/shipping_content.php and rename to about_content.php



Please check the instructions....


As for not being easy. Since this is base on osCommerce - it just has hard (possably harder) to add this into it.

There is a contribution that you can dynamically ADD in pages - this will be in the NEXT future version of oscmax - but not the current that is in beta now - that version is an update for current mods and bugs (very little added features).

[bluhalo]

i found myself doing this quite a lot using this guide using OscMax V2.0

For this example I am going to create about.php

as long as you follow it, IT DOES WORK EVERYTIME!



1.0 - Creating the pages for the front end

1.1 - Copy shipping.php and rename to about.php

1.2 - about.php
Change all references of _SHIPPING to _ABOUT

1.3 - /includes/filenames.php
Add the following definitions:
define('CONTENT_ABOUT', 'about');
define('CONTENT_ABOUT_CONTENT', 'about_content');
define('FILENAME_ABOUT', CONTENT_ABOUT . '.php');
define('FILENAME_ABOUT_CONTENT', CONTENT_ABOUT_CONTENT . '.php');

1.4 - Copy includes/languages/english/shipping.php and rename to about.php

1.5 - includes/languages/english/about.php
Change relevant information

1.6 - Copy includes/languages/english/shipping_content.php and rename to about_content.php

1.7 - Copy templates/[templatename]/content/shipping.tpl.php and rename to about.tpl.php (may need to copy first from fallback template)

1.8 - templates/[templatename]/content/about.tpl.php
Change:
<?php include(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_SHIPPING_CONTENT); ?>
to
<?php include(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_ABOUT_CONTENT); ?>

1.9 - includes/configure_bts.php
Add the following definition:
define('TEMPLATENAME_ABOUT', 'about.tpl.php');

2.0 - Link to the page: <a href=”<?php echo tep_href_link(FILENAME_ABOUT) ?>”>ABOUT US</a>

3.0 - Creating the pages in admin section

3.1 - /admin/index.php
Find:
array('title' ⇒ BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_SHIPPING, 'link' ⇒ tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFINE_SHIPPING, 'selected_box=catalog')),
And duplicate it for each page you want to add, modifying SHIPPING to ABOUT

3.2 - /admin/includes/boxes/catalog.php
Find:
tep_admin_files_boxes(FILENAME_DEFINE_SHIPPING, BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_SHIPPING) .
And duplicate it for each page you want to add, modifying SHIPPING to ABOUT

3.3 - Copy admin/define_shipping.php and rename to define_about.php
Change all references of SHIPPING to ABOUT

3.4 - admin/includes/languages/english.php
Add the following definition:
define('BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_ABOUT', 'About Page');

3.5 - admin/includes/filenames.php
Add the following definition:
define('FILENAME_DEFINE_ABOUT','define_about.php') ;

3.6 - add access to define_about.php in the administrator menu: in back office admin, goto administrator -> file access -> catalog -> click on store files -> click drop down and find the new page - > save and should now appear in the side menu

3.7 - make sure the page is writeable, the page will be about_content.php in includes/languages/english

[cagriaras]

This is the formal and impractical way. Assuming the page you want to add is "about.php" The minimal code to add new pages to oscmax is:

1) Create a page called "about.php" in your catalog directory.

2) Put these lines into this file (be careful about the extra space before the php opening tag otherwise you'll get nasty session warnings):

<?php

include('includes/application_top.php');

define('NAVBAR_TITLE', 'bla bla'); // optional
define('NAVBAR_TITLE_1', 'bla bla'); // optional

$content = 'about';
include (bts_select('main'));
?>

3) create & put everything you want in a file called "about.tpl.php" under your template directory.

DONE!

now point to http://www.blabla.com/about.php

easy eh?

[michael_s]

Or just use the articles manager to create a new article, then add a link to it wherever you want...even easier.