EzPage Internal or External links do NOT show up for me? What am I doing wrong?

[davemehta]

Ok, so I've never been able to get the Ez-Pages Internal or External links to work. I know it's simple and I've searched this thread but I put in my link under an ezpage as an external link (http://www.whatever.com/mypage.html) but when you go to that ezpage just the title shows and there is no content! I've tried it both as an internal and external link.

Why won't it show up? This hasn't worked for me in several stores and must be something I'm doing wrong because I don't see anyone else complaining about it. Do I not have a certain setting turned on or something? It should be as easy as putting in the external link on the ezpage and then I should see whatever content in the main content section of my site, right?

[fairestcape]

Have you given them a SORT ORDER greater than " 0 " and have you assigned them to one of the EZpages menus ?

[davemehta]

Thanks for the response!

I don't see a "sort order" value on the Ez-Page admin page. I assume you mean sort order on the ez-page menu.

When you ask "assigned them to one of the EZpages menus"... I don't use the ez-page menu sidebar. I just create my own links and hard-code reference them in the Information Sidebox. For example I just put a link to "http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=8&chapter=0" or whatever ez-page I want to access.

This might be the problem ... I don't see how it would effect it not displaying the contents but maybe I need to go in and assign them to an ez-page menu. Where is that at in the admin panel?

[davemehta]

This has gotta be pretty simple... any body able to give me a hand? Pretty please!

[davemehta]

I have searched and tried everything I can think of and still no luck. Why is this soooo hard? If I put in an external link (like http://www.whatever.com/whateverpage.html) for an ez-page, shouldn't it be displayed when I call up that ez-page? Why isn't this working properly?

[tony_sar]

do you have a link to your site that we can see what is going on ?
you mentioned something about hard coding the links in information side box . why do you do that ?

[davemehta]

Yes, check it the site here: http://www.pangeawebhosting.com/getpage2937654.php

In the top left of the header click the "Monsta Gallery" link. This takes you to the ez-page (id #1). That ez-page is set as an external link because I want to easily be able to edit the HTML on that page via the file, but want it to display properly with the header and footer of the site. This ez-page functionality would be great becaus the ez-page is just a wrapper to the HTML page...

...problem is, it doesn't work! As you can see it comes up with no content. Why isn't it pulling the content from the HTML file that is referenced in the external link?

This should be simple and it's not working, soooo frustrating!

By looking at the site that should have answered your question (tony_sar) about why we hard-code the ez-page links... it's so it is worked into the design/layout of the site.

Please help! :-)

[gjh42]

An external link will just redirect to the external page, not display the external page in Zen Cart. Same with internal links, except that this is presumably to a page within the ZC framework and thus will have its ZC page format. Neither will call the referenced file into the current page. Have you tried using the stock ez-page menus to see how they function?
How are you calling the ez-page links? In a PHP file, you can use
<?php echo '<a href="' . zen_ez_pages_link(##) . '">Link Title</a>';?>
where ## is the ez-page id. This will resolve to a link to the external or internal page when the HTML is served to the viewer.

[davemehta]

Oh, so it's not a wrapper? Well then I don't even need to mess with it.

How can I create a simple php file that would:

1. Call the main_page.tpl fle to draw out the "template" of the page.
2. That template references main page contents in a variable called "body code"... how do I insert my html file in that variable?

Then I would get the wrapper I need.

~ Dave

Dave Mehta
Pangea Webhosting

[gjh42]

If you want to edit your custom page content in a file outside of Zen Cart, you would best use a "define page". The core content file for one of those can be edited in the Define Page Editor, or as a php file on your home computer. Ez-pages are stored in the database, so cannot be edited outside of the Zen Cart admin.

Get the About Us page mod from Free Addons, and use it as a model to make your own new page. It is not a very simple process, but will be totally effective rather than trying to create a new hack to get the approximate result.