Help Me Humpa

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

OK, I got that.. it does look easy... and I like the fact that the menu then would be in all one file... edit one time, and not have to for every page...

If I understand it correctly, if someone links to one of those pages directly then, the headder, and side menu will show up too, right?

If so, that is exactly what I'm after.

Now, can I edit those, and paste the content of my pages into them via Frontpage? or some other editer perfered??

Also, i don't have to worry about anything on the server side, right?? because I'm not sure what Jim has setup...

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

Yeah, the server won't have any problem with parsing those php files - that is totally standard stuff. Any server nowadays supports php.

You can still use front page - but you might have to take an extra step, depending on how good front page is.

The header.php will need to stay a php file - but you won't be editing that, so that doesn't matter.
And the index.php will need to stay a php file, and all your other main pages will need to be php files as well.

For all your pages, you can just copy the index.php and then simply paste in the html code below the "content, insert text and content below" comment line.
So you are going to have to create the html code in front page and then simply copy and paste. Just make sure to just strip out the body and meta tags first (if front page puts that stuff in automatically or whatever).

For the logoTop.php, navLinks.php, and footer.php - you can change those to logoTop.html, navLinks.html, and footer.html. That way you can edit them easier if you want.
But you'll have to change the "includes" in your template/index.php to include("logoTop.html"); ... you can "include" php files or html files or whatever - it will work just the same.

Actually, I have a better idea.
Give me a few and I'll post back.

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

ok, I think you might like this better.
I made them all html files, except the header.php and the index.php
But you should never have to edit either of those! You can edit them if you want to make some changes to the meta tags or something like that - but I imagine that will be a one time thing.

Just make your pages like normal, and all you have to do is add them to the navLinks.html file
www.humpa.com/mark/mark.zip

Check out the navLinks.html and you will see how the links need to be made.
For Example: index.php?page=V710_INFO.htm

And that's it.
You don't have to worry about the template or the title or anythiing.
Just create/edit your htm pages (and they can be htm or html, it doesn't matter, so long as you make the link using the correct filename)

My index.php file will simply include that file for you, based on the "page=whatever.htm" - if no file is requested (if $page is empty), then it will use the main.html file.
So, edit the main.html file as your main page.

Just remember, for all your pages (main.html, V710_INFO.htm, etc) - you just want the straight up html code - you don't want the body or meta or title or any other tags .... right?

Give that a try and see what you think - just upload those files to a new folder somewhere and check them out.

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

Now, I imagine you have a lot of links already in your pages, and they just go to V710_INFO.html (for example) - right?

Well, you don't have to edit those.

We'll just use .htaccess to do that for us.
This is all you need for an .htaccess file:

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

I'm done messing around with the files/template/idea now - that is good to go. Very Happy

... I think. Wink

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

One thing you are going to have to do when you edit your pages - you need to get rid of all the css style "position: absolute" stuff.
I'm sure front page has various options for this, but postion: absolute will not work correctly, unless you can tell front page that you need to leave a margin on the top and on the left (because there will be the logo on top and the nav links on the left).

So, you need to either use NO css absolute positioning, or you need to set a default top and left margin in front page so that your page shows up in the correct spot.

In case you are unfamilar with the css attribute "postion", that tells the browser where to show the code. And your pages have a postion: absolute of left: 0px
That tells the browser to postion the code 0 pixels from the left - so the code would be overlayed on top of the navLinks, since they are on the left already

Your frames worked because each frame is its own page.

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

Cool. Thanks!! Will look at this more tonight when I get home from class...

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

Ok, using the link you gave above to see... www.humpa.com/mark it works fine....

must be a smalll problem with the way Jim has his server setup.... see http://mark.cdmaforums.com/mark

it doesn't seem to access the links properly... click on the V710 Info in the nav list, and instead of showing the contents of that html file, it acts as if that file isn't there... it does the same thing with XAMPP running as PHP server on my local PC..

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

Sorry, you must have register_globals set to Off (which is a good thing)
Add a newline to the index.php, right after the opening php tag, so it looks like this:

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

ok, that works much better...

now to strip out the formatting from the frames. and upload... that is gonna take some time... BUT it will be MUCH BETTER!!!

THANKYOU!!!

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

No problem.

It will be a lot easier linking people to your pages. Very Happy

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

yeah, its gonna be a while till i get finished...

1 page at a time.. Smile

Btw, I stripped out SOME stuff on the E815 page... but something was left... because while it "fits" and looks ok, the font for the links along the left changes... Looks like I have my work cut out for me....

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

It shouldn't be that hard.
Maybe to do it right might take some real time, but just to get it looking like it does now is pretty simple.

www.humpa.com/mark
I did the first 4 pages real quick.

I simply went to your site, and just used my mouse/cursor to highlight and copy your main frame.
Then I simply pasted that into Microsoft Word.
Then I saved as webpage.
Then I opened that saved webpage in an editor (my copy of Word doesn't have html editor installed Sad

)
I simply deleted everything up to and including the opening body tag, and I scolled to the bottom and delete the closing body and html tag.

I did that 4 times (once for each of the first 4 links on the left of my "mark" page) ... took me a couple of minutes.

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

yeah, its going faster today... I have about 20 done in under a 1/2hr....

Mark_Venture · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

btw, how difficult would it to be to put a set of links in the LOGOTOP.HTM?? like how the current page has the buttons for MAIN, ABOUT, CONTACT, NEWS, FAQ, and SITE SEARCH?