Beginners Question

irishcavan

I know some HTML, JAVA, DHTML.. and now.. i am getting into PHP... i need some help.. i have followed the instructions for replace the logo on my ecommerce site.. but it is not replacing it... can someone help?

Thanks,

Irish

http://anirishtouch.netfirms.com/irishimports/nfoscomm/catalog/

This is the site i am currently editing..

Rodney_H_

Hi, welcome to PHPBuilder.com...

You will need to post your php code so we can look at it ...

irishcavan

here is the task i am supposed to do:

How do I replace the Netfirms Commerce Pro logo with my own company logo?
To replace the Netfirms Commerce Pro logo with your own company logo, please follow the instructions below:

Using an FTP client (eg. Filezilla) download the ../catalog/includes/header.php file
Using a text editor (eg. Notepad) edit the header.php file as follows:

In the existing code:
<?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'oscommerce.gif', 'OSCommerce'); ?>

(a)Replace 'oscommerce.gif' with yourlogo.gif (where yourlogo.gif is the name of your image file (for your company logo))
(b)Replace 'OSCommerce' with the name of your company
(c)Using your FTP client upload the revised header.php file back to the server to ../catalog/includes/

Using an FTP client upload yourlogo.gif (the filename for your company's logo) to the images folder ../catalog/images/

i uploaded the .gif and changed the coding. here is the file header.php:

<?php
/*
$Id: header.php,v 1.19 2002/04/13 16:11:52 hpdl Exp $

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
http://www.oscommerce.com

Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

if ($messageStack->size > 0) {
echo $messageStack->output();
}
?>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'irishimports.gif', 'Irish Imports', '185', '117'); ?></td>
<td align="right"><?php echo '<a href="http://www.anirishtouch.com" target="_blank">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'header_support.gif', HEADER_TITLE_SUPPORT_SITE, '50', '50') . '</a>  <a href="' . tep_catalog_href_link() . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'header_checkout.gif', HEADER_TITLE_ONLINE_CATALOG, '53', '50') . '</a>  <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'NONSSL') . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'header_administration.gif', HEADER_TITLE_ADMINISTRATION, '50', '50') . '</a>'; ?>  </td>
</tr>
<tr class="headerBar">
<td class="headerBarContent">  <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'NONSSL') . '" class="headerLink">' . HEADER_TITLE_TOP . '</a>'; ?></td>
<td class="headerBarContent" align="right"><?php echo '<a href="http://www.anirishtouch.com" class="headerLink">' . HEADER_TITLE_SUPPORT_SITE . '</a>  |  <a href="' . tep_catalog_href_link() . '" class="headerLink">' . HEADER_TITLE_ONLINE_CATALOG . '</a>  |  <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'NONSSL') . '" class="headerLink">' . HEADER_TITLE_ADMINISTRATION . '</a>'; ?>  </td>
</tr>
</table>

Thanks in advance for the help,

Irish

halojoy

irishcavan wrote:
I know some HTML, JAVA, DHTML.. and now.. i am getting into PHP... i need some help.. i have followed the instructions for replace the logo on my ecommerce site.. but it is not replacing it... can someone help?

Thanks,

Irish

http://anirishtouch.netfirms.com/irishimports/nfoscomm/catalog/

This is the site i am currently editing..

is it this lgo GIF
http://anirishtouch.netfirms.com/irishimports/nfoscomm/catalog/images/oscommerce.gif

you should look for a file named
header.xxx
maybe in some folder templates

I see you use a downloaded php script called:
osCommerce
from
http://www.oscommerce.com/

they have an online or downloadable documentation of osCommerce:
http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce

of course I could download and install osCommerce
and easily find out where
index.php
adds this GIF:
http://anirishtouch.netfirms.com/irishimports/nfoscomm/catalog/images/oscommerce.gif

it is this GIF you should replace with your own upper left LOGO
you can rename the previous to:
oscommerce_old.gif
and
name your own
oscommerce.gif

thorpe

what part are you stuck on? the instructions are pretty clear.

halojoy

I didnt see your post with detailed instructions
but as you can see
what I say more simply
is basically same thing as in your post

about a GIF
and HEADER

irishcavan

okay... not to be sarcastic or anything... i didnt it... lol.... step by step by step... and it still isnt working. i am wondering if there is code somewhere else that i have to edit... I successfully uploaded and changed the background, but i cant seem to get this to go right. I have posted the directions and code above.

I was looking at some books today on coding, but as i have always learned hands on - i figured i would go to the forum for some help.

Thanks guys (and gals),

Irish

halojoy

irishcavan wrote:
I successfully uploaded and changed the background,
but i cant seem to get this to go right.

I have posted the directions and code above.
Irish

in your folder /catalog you have a file:
stylesheet.css
make a safety copy of this, you can rename this too stylesheet_old.css

in this file you have settings for different parts ans colours of your pages:


BODY {
  background: #ffffff;
  color: #000000;
  margin: 0px;
}

A {
  color: #000000;
  text-decoration: none;
}

A:hover {
  color: #AABBDD;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

FORM {
display: inline;
}

this is the part where
BODY
and
A links colours and look are set

BODY {
background: #ffffff; = WHITE backgroud
color: #000000; = BLACK text
margin: 0px;
}

so it is easy to change the layout

irishcavan

thanks, but i have already changed the background. by uploading the background file to the images folder and naming it in the stylesheet and reuploading that file. what i why i cant figure out why the logo is not also changing. the original logo is oscommerce.gif. the new logo is irishimports.gif. as stated i uploaded the logo to the images folder and changed the settings from oscommerce.gif to irishimports.gif in the header.php file and reuploaded that one.

so, the question is why wont the logo change. i can rename my logo oscommerce.gif and it will change that way, however, i would like to do the changes correctly.

thanks,

irish

halojoy

irishcavan wrote:
and changed the settings from oscommerce.gif to irishimports.gif in the header.php file and reuploaded that one.

so, the question is why wont the logo change. i can rename my logo oscommerce.gif and it will change that way, however, i would like to do the changes correctly.
thanks,

irish

As I mentioned in my first reply:

rename the old logo to:
oscommerce_old.gif if you want to save it
and
rename your logo.gif to oscommerce.gif
instead of changing a lot of variables and other things in script

I wont tell you a third time, as you understand 🙂

/halojoy - listen carefully - he will say this only twice

irishcavan

halojoy, thank you for your "advice", i did it that way and it worked. However, the question I asked was on understanding what I did wrong, or if there is something else that I should do to change the logo (under the correct file name). PHP is not something i am usually in, so i would like to learn things the correct way - so that in the future i wont be pressed to ask the same question.

thanks,

irish