Changing Text on Main Page???

[hodgemelody]

I cant figure out how to change the text on my main page. I went to my back office of my website and there seems to be now where to do this. Anybody have an idea????
Thanks

[stevesh]

In your Zencart admin, go to Tools - Define Pages Editor and select define_main_page.php

[afo]

admin>tools>define pages editor
select the file to edit from the pull-down menu.

Make sure you're following the override/template system or all your changes will be lost in the next upgrade/update.

Alternately, you can unzip Zen Cart on your local drive. Create all the folders and files you need there. Edit them as desired using a good text editor like Notepad++ or Crimson Editor and upload them to your website using and FTP client like Filezilla. The advantage of doing it that way is you have an "instant backup" of your site/changes.

[walong336]

I am having the same problem. I tried the Admin text editor with no success. I then tried changing the includes/laguages/english/index.php file using NotePadXP and uploading it with FileZilla. Still didn't change the page. I double checked and the index file does show new text but it doesn't appear on the main page when I log in. Can anyone help? Thanks.

[stevesh]

Be sure you're actually overwriting the file with FTP. Your permissions may be set such that you can't overwrite, and you usually won't get (or won't notice) an error message.

Are you sure index.php is the file you want to change? To edit the main page, it's define_main_page.php

[walong336]

Sorry about the index reference - it's another problem. However, I did try the Tools,Define Page Editor, and selected define main page.php, changed the text inside the single quotes and it accomplished nothing. You may be right about the permission, but I followed the steps and changed at lot of file attributes to 777. This is very frustrating. Any specific area I should double check permissions?

[JohnJr]

I'm having the same problem on one of my sites.

One site is fine - I can change the Main Page text with the Definte Pages Editor.

But the second site...no good. In my case, no text is being displayed - blank screen in the 'middle' of the page. Using a text editor, the file 'define_main_page.php looks good, but it isn't displayed.

I'm stumped.

John

[JohnJr]

I found my problem - it's some problem related to the specific template that I'm using.

As to the problem with the Main Page Text not changing, I had that at one point too, but that problem corrected itself (I obviously did something to correct it, but I have no idea what, at this time). You might try changing templates, just to see what happens with this problem? That might give some idea as to where the problem is located.

John