My website won't show...

[macc88]

All I wanted to do was change the name of the "Sponsor" box to another name... I noticed through a thread that access to the Sponsor title is found in INCLUDES > LANGUAGE > English.php.
I found the word "Sponsor" in the 4 times. 2 of which were within codes. All I did was change those names to something else, saved it and my main page showed something like ENTRANCE_BOX_MAIN, where the sponsor title use to be. Not only that every title everywhere on the page was SOMETHING_SOMETHING_ELSE. Thats not exactly what it said, but if you know the jist of what i'm saying, you know what I mean. The page just showed the background heading names, for whats actually suppose to be there. I didn't back up the English.php file, I overwrote it, because I was too confident. Anyway, I replaced it many times with another backup I had, and it stays the same. Now my site doesn't even show...

Another thing... in ADMIN area, in SIDEBOX LAYOUT or whatever, it says in red "MISSING" all the way down in a line. I have files missing now it seems?

Anyone know Of a Cure ?

[dbltoe]

If the info said 'Sponsor' and you changed it to 'Hello', no problem.
If you changed it to 'Hello or Hello', that's a problem.

Most of these are caused by losing an apostrophe or adding a controlled character in the define. i.e. 'This is okay' while 'This isn't'. The second should read 'This isn/'t' in order to work.

[macc88]

If you meant 'isn't' I'll try it out and let you know. I'll look over everything I did.

[dbltoe]

meant almost exactly what I wrote. When you add certain characters in a php define, they need to be "escaped" by precluding them with a \. Otherwise the string breaks and the apostrophes are not in pairs (beginning and ending of define). Things really go screwy when they aren't found in pairs.

[macc88]

ok here. I will highlight the sponsor in red. Its the ones in the first define brackets that matter. If you guessed, yes, 'customer service' is what I added. But where it is now is not where I originally put it. I think a box code is suppose to go there. Right?
like.. '???????_???????????_?????_??????' something, if I can get that answer then I believe my site will pop back up.

// banner_box

define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX','Sponsors');

define('TEXT_BANNER_BOX','Please Visit Our Sponsors ...');



// banner box 2

define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX2','Have you seen ...');

define('TEXT_BANNER_BOX2','Check this out today!');



// banner_box - all

define('Customer Service','Sponsors');

define('TEXT_BANNER_BOX_ALL','Please Visit Our Sponsors ...');

[macc88]

wait a minute... this is like math, some sort of pattern. what if I just put:

'BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOXALL' since its under the
// banner_box - all comment.

Like:

// banner_box

define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX','Sponsors');

and

// banner box 2

define('BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX2','Have you seen ...');

I'm about to try this....

[macc88]

Didn't work....

whats this mean.. anyone ?
I had to post this error on another sites server. please check it out after your done.

http://www.intercoaldest.com/missing.JPG


my actually site is estorenation.com

[dbltoe]

php code can be mixed together using punctuation and a period (.) is punctuation.

Try 'Visit our Sponsors' and see if that doesn't work.

[macc88]

I'm lost...