Adding JavaScript to Blank Sidebox module

[plc613]

Thanks for your help.

Here my whole tpl_blank_sidebox.php @ my_template/sideboxes/

<?php
/**
 * blank sidebox - allows a blank sidebox to be added to your site
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright 2007 Kuroi Web Design
  * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: blank_sidebox.php 2007-05-26 kuroi $
 */

  $content = '';
  $content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent">';

  // Replace the text and HTML tags between the apostophes on lines 19 and 20.
  // Use as many or as few lines using this model as you need for your custom content.
  // If you have a multilingual site define your text in the languages/YOUR_LANGUAGE/extra_definitions/blank_sidebox_defines.php and include it as shown in line 19.
  // If your site is monolingual, you can put the text right here as shown on line 20 (and nobody will know!)
$content .= '<div id="footer-payments">
<center>
  <img src="' . $template->get_template_dir(\'\',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images') . '/' . FOOTER_PAYMENT_ICON"   alt="payments we accept" class="payments-image" /> 
</center>
</div>';

$content .= '   <!-- Do not alter for the seal to work properly -->
    <div id="sslsSiteSeal">
        seal by <a href="http://ssls.com/">SSLs.com</a>
    </div>';
?>

And here's my jscript_sslseal.js @ my_template/jscript/

 (function() {
        var ss = document.createElement('script'); ss.type = 'text/javascript'; ss.async = true;
        ss.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'seal.ssls.com/script.js?cn=' + window.location.host;
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ss, s);
    })();

[plc613]

Just for kicks I commented out the payments icons to focus merely on the site seal and the site seal actually works. The positioning is way off but I'm confident I can figure that out on my own. Then I tried the same with the payment icons and even alone, that code breaks the site. One thing I noticed, which is odd to me because that same code worked when it was in the footer, the path is actually images/icons/ not just images. Is it just that perhaps?

[gjh42]

You have

<img src="' . $template->get_template_dir(\'\',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images') . '/' . FOOTER_PAYMENT_ICON" 

with one escaped set of quotes \'\' and one unescaped set 'images'. This is guaranteed to fail. Try

<img src="' . $template->get_template_dir('',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images') . '/' . FOOTER_PAYMENT_ICON" 

[plc613]

Well, that was just leftovers from your suggestion in post #7. As was already suggested, I tried with both single quotes & either escaped. None of those options have worked. I also just tried the latest suggest method:

<img src="' . $template->get_template_dir('',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images') . '/' . FOOTER_PAYMENT_ICON"

to no avail.

[plc613]

Although I've been copying/pasting perhaps there must be a mistake somewhere!? Here are the contents as is directly from my tpl_blank_sidebox.php:

<img src="' . $template->get_template_dir(''',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images') . '/' . FOOTER_PAYMENT_ICON"   alt="payments we accept" class="payments-image" />

[plc613]

I think I mentioned this already but...Seems to me the images couldn't show up because they're actually in a subfolder of images ie images/icons. Seems to me like that code is only looking for the image files in 'images' no? What contradicts that is that this *exact* code was functioning in the footer...I just don't understand php enough yet so....

Sorry, I don't know what lead me to think the images were in a subfolder but they are not.

[plc613]

Before anyone wastes more energy on this...

I gave up on the blank_sidebox in lieu of PayPal CreditCards Accepted. I simply split the siteseal snippet between the tpl_paypal_creditcards_sidebox.php and jscript as suggested earlier in this thread.

  $content = '';
  $content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent">';    
  $content .= '   <!-- Do not alter for the seal to work properly -->
    <div id="sslsSiteSeal">
        seal by <a href="http://ssls.com/">SSLs.com</a>
    </div>';
  $content .= '<p>' . TEXT_PAYPAL_CREDITCARDS_SIDEBOX . '</p>';
  $content .= '</div>';

Don't know why we couldn't get things going with the previous add-on but perhaps by posting this code it may be obvious to someone.

Thank you to everyone who tried so hard to get this working. Much appreciated.

[gjh42]

$template->get_template_dir(''',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, 

You have three single quotes here instead of two. If this is what was actually in your live file, it would cause an error due to the extra quote.

[plc613]

For what it's worth I had caught that to and removing the third single quote didn't fix the code. I suspect there is something outside the snippets I've shown that was effecting things.

[gjh42]

Without seeing the exact error message *and* the exact file content that accompanied it, it is only possible to guess.