Mod Guide Capter 1

[jobjonah]

The way osCommerce is constructed looks a bit complicated at first, but once you learn its conventions, you can efficiently modify your cart quite extensively.

First, if you look at default.php in a text editor, you will see that the code is divided into sections. These sections are defined like this:

<!-- header //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header.php'); ?>
<!-- header_eof //-->

The code

<!—sometext//-->

defines the start of a specific section, and the code

<!—sometext_eof//-->

defines the end of that section. This is important for those of us that do not read php or html code very well.

I can't find default.php. It might be a version problem since all I find is index.php, and I have the latest version and it seems to be a good install. I can't find any file where I can view php and html in a text editor at the same time.
http://www.soap.whitelakeworld.com/catalog

[michael_s]

Not all the updates have been finished on the guide, as of MS2 there is no longer a default.php, it has been renamed to index.php.

All the php files have html embedded in them. You edit them in a text editor. Open any of the files, like index.php, and you will see a mixture of php and html. This assumes you are using MS2 and not MS2-MAX.

[jobjonah]

I am using MS2-MAX and that must be the source of my confusion.