Adding InfoBoxes in v2.5 in Admin & Catalog Sides

[cindyt2009]

Hi,

I am playing with adding a few contributions with the v2.5 - and I do not see a button "add a New InfoBox" under Admin/fileAccess as in previous versions? Can someone tell me how I can add this on the Admin side?

Also, on the catalog side, you used to be able to just go to 'includes/boxes/...and add a new box...it looks like a lot of that was moved to the new menu being used. Can you possibly point in the right direction on how I would go about adding new info boxes on this side as well?

Thanks in advance....
Cindy

[met00]

look in
/templates/yourtemplate/boxes/

[cindyt2009]

thanks....

[cindyt2009]

Hi again....ok, I see in that file that it pulls in the info, but from where??? Can you give me a few more details?

Also, I found how to add the new topic header on the admin side...via the admin/includes/menu.php ....but how and where do you get it to pull all the subtopics into the menu? i have done the file access and everything, so the files are there...just not sure how ot make it show up.

Also, will that menu wraparound if you keep adding things to that menu bar or can you actually choose to put new items on the column left bar and if so, can you explain how that is done please?

Thanks,
c

[pgmarshall]

I am playing with adding a few contributions with the v2.5 - and I do not see a button "add a New InfoBox" under Admin/fileAccess as in previous versions? Can someone tell me how I can add this on the Admin side?

admin/includes/menu.php builds the grey suckerfish menu in admin. Look in one of the other menu boxes to find the code to link the sub-menu items eg. admin/includes/boxes/reports.php - its basically looks like a list of these tep_admin_jqmenu(FILENAME_STATS_PRODUCTS_VIEWED, BOX_REPORTS_PRODUCTS_VIEWED, 'TOP')

Also, will that menu wraparound if you keep adding things to that menu bar

Yes - but it will look ugly.

can you actually choose to put new items on the column left bar and if so, can you explain how that is done please?

Admin Panel -> Administrator -> Quick Links

on the catalog side, you used to be able to just go to 'includes/boxes/...and add a new box

This is the same functionality as before ... just look in Admin -> Configuration -> Templates -> Infoboxes

Regards,

[cindyt2009]

Hi again,
Everything works just as you described above EXCEPT the catalog side....I added the new infobox and still nothing. Here is the info I used:

Filename: links
Define Key: BOX_HEADING_LINKS
Column: left
Sort Order: 6
Active: yes

(It should be noted that "The InfoBox Heading?" input box is missing from the "Add New InfoBox")

there is a part of the installation that ask for the following code to be added to the catalog/includes/boxes/information.php page:


'<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_LINKS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS . '</a><br>' . // Links Manager II v1.00 added

This line is already there but highlighted out.... trying to include it makes the home page leave off 1/2 the page. Obviously an error.

Any idea on why it will not work on the catalog side?

Also, just curious...in OSCMax 2.5 when you moved the english.php from includes/language/english.php to includes/language/english/core.php.... are there any places you need to change when you add contributions that are not specifically for 2.5 where you have to point the files to that location and filename?

Any help would be appreciated.
Cindy

[blackhawk]

Hi again...
there is a part of the installation that ask for the following code to be added to the catalog/includes/boxes/information.php page:

Hi Cindy,
welcome to the forums. You have to learn how to install modules the oscmax way, not the oscommerce way. why? because we're better.
In conjunction with your understanding of creating infoboxes from the admin side, you also have to create the proper php file from your catalog folder. read this example...

http://wiki.oscdox.com/adding_a_new_..._2.0.2_onwards

Once you do both properly, you will get the infobox and page you are looking for (for the most part). Depending on the oscommerce module you install, you may need to tweek things since "we" use BTS as our backbone {oscommerce package does not by default}. Just get familiar with the oscmax documentation and feel free to ask questions.

bh

[cindyt2009]

Thank you... I will take a look there. I was able to get another infobox added without problem, but still struggling with the first. I am sure the documentation will help me through it.
Thanks again for getting back with me.
C