Main Page Text Gone!!!

Matt,

I doubt the permissions were the cause of your problem.

I know you've probably tried everything but I know you were trying to split your main page - are any of those attempts coming back to haunt you?

If you change your template to the default, do you get the main page text?

Hi

Thanks for the tip. I never did fully resolve the 2 sections of text on the homepage - you may well be right about the fiddling around coming back to haunt me! When i switch to the default template i still get no text.

I thought of a possible solution: If I switch the Welcome Message on in Admin-Config-layout settings then I get the following text "Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in?". Could I replace this text with the text about my site that i wanted? I tried searching for this text in the Developer Tools, but could not find the file?

What do you think?

Matt

Compare your includes/template/YOURTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_index_default.php file against the ZenCart original located in includes/templates/default_template.

That is the file that you were editing trying to get your page split. Make sure the file in the default directory is the unedited, original version. If not, upload a fresh copy from the ZenCart download zip and see where your at.

Hi

There is no index default file in my custom template, but there is one in my default folder. It looks like this;

<?php
/**
* Page Template
*
* Main index page<br />
* Displays greetings, welcome text (define-page content), and various centerboxes depending on switch settings in Admin<br />
* Centerboxes are called as necessary
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: tpl_index_default.php 3464 2006-04-19 00:07:26Z ajeh $
*/
?>
<div class="centerColumn" id="indexDefault">
<h1 id="indexDefaultHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></h1>

<?php if (SHOW_CUSTOMER_GREETING == 1) { ?>
<h2 class="greeting"><?php echo zen_customer_greeting(); ?></h2>
<?php } ?>

<!-- deprecated - to use uncomment this section
<?php if (TEXT_MAIN) { ?>
<div id="" class="content"><?php echo TEXT_MAIN; ?></div>
<?php } ?>-->

<!-- deprecated - to use uncomment this section
<?php if (TEXT_INFORMATION) { ?>
<div id="" class="content"><?php echo TEXT_INFORMATION; ?></div>
<?php } ?>-->

<?php if (DEFINE_MAIN_PAGE_STATUS >= 1 and DEFINE_MAIN_PAGE_STATUS <= 2) { ?>
<?php
/**
* get the Define Main Page Text
*/
?>
<div id="indexDefaultMainContent" class="content"><?php require($define_page); ?></div>
<?php } ?>

<?php
$show_display_category = $db->Execute(SQL_SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN);
while (!$show_display_category->EOF) {
?>

<?php if ($show_display_category->fields['configuration_key'] == 'SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN_FEATURED_PRODUCTS') { ?>
<?php
/**
* display the Featured Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_featured_products.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_featured_products.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

<?php if ($show_display_category->fields['configuration_key'] == 'SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS') { ?>
<?php
/**
* display the Special Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_specials_default.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_specials_default.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

<?php if ($show_display_category->fields['configuration_key'] == 'SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN_NEW_PRODUCTS') { ?>
<?php
/**
* display the New Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_whats_new.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_whats_new.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

<?php if ($show_display_category->fields['configuration_key'] == 'SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN_UPCOMING') { ?>
<?php
/**
* display the Upcoming Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS)); ?><?php } ?>


<?php
$show_display_category->MoveNext();
} // !EOF
?>
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Should the "uncomment bits " be there?

Matt:(

I didn't do a line by line compare but if this the unaltered file then it's good.

Just for the heck of it, copy the text on your define_main_page file to notepad, clear the text from the page, resave it, then re-enter the text back and save. Maybe some corruption on your define_main_page??

Maybe upload a backup copy of define_main_page from before the disappearance happened.

Stranger things have happened.

Doug

No luck. So I have temporarily got round the issue by enabling the Welcome message in Admin and changing the text.

Thanks for all your help.

Matt