Some coding help please

[malc]

i could do with some help here please as i am not a coder at all.

In my site sighthoundsforlife.org i have a sponsorship category and in this category i put dogs who need sponsorship in there as a new document.
On the main page it states 'New products for June' and this is really poor as it indicates they are products, so i would like just for this category to read something like 'New arrivals for June'.
Can anyone help please

malc

[Soniccc]

Open your english.php file. Go to line 552
change,
define('TABLE_HEADING_NEW_PRODUCTS', 'New Products for %s');
to,
define('TABLE_HEADING_NEW_PRODUCTS', 'New arrivals for %s');

Your english.php file is located under domain/includes/languages/

You will need an ftp client such as FileZilla (it's free). If you run into trouble just tell me!

[malc]

Thank you for your prompt reply, will this not change the other categories as well

malc

[Soniccc]

It will.. seems I didn't read your question careful enough.. you could approach this in a different way using a page specific stylesheet for the category you wish to change/modify. It's way more fun this way.

Try this article:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Per-Page-Rules

If you need more help, just tell me.

[malc]

thank you, i will give it a good read and go for it
cheers

[malc]

right then....if i was doing standard html i think i get it, i could create a animal.css and attach it to the page if it was called animal, but this is php and i have not got a clue with this style of pages within pages.
I have been trying to understand how it works so i can go to the correct file when wanting to edit it but i have learnt it is like chalk and cheese and apart form the html includes i am out of the loop i'm afraid...
any pointers welcome

[DrByte]

Um ... you can't change the text/wording on a page using just a css stylesheet.

Does this wording-change need to be only for a certain category number? If so, which cPath does it apply to? ie: the URL of the page contains a &cPath= reference. And does it have any subcategories which also need it?


Is there anything else particularly unique about these "arrivals" that makes them specifically different from "products"? Maybe you need to write a custom product-type to handle different layout and different wording etc ... making numerous more drastic changes for a broad collection of "products". This is definitely a more "advanced" topic though.

[malc]

That statement says something to me now, thanks. So if it states path = 18 i assume this is the category of 'sponsorship'. When in the product it shows number 78 one of the dogs, but i think there is too many references in there for me to mess with changing the word product to something else, so i am quite happy just to show the word change in the category.
thank you

[DrByte]

Okay, keeping it VERY basic, Soniccc's idea will work, with some alterations:

create a new file at: /includes/languages/twist_of_nature/english.php
If you don't already have that folder and that file at that location, make one containing just the following code. If you *do* already have that , then simply add the following code (except the <?php line) to the end of it:

<?php 
// custom label for category 18 and its subcats
if (isset($_GET['cPath']) && (int)$_GET['cPath'] == 18) {
  define('TABLE_HEADING_NEW_PRODUCTS', 'New arrivals for %s');
}

You could add other defines normally found in the main english.php inside this "if" statement if you need to change things specifically for that category.

[malc]

That is perfect thank you so much
I already had a copy of the english.php in this folder for some other bits i have tinkered with and i reading your post i have a question about the changes.
Above i would have created the new file and just entered this code for the overide template, does this mean you do not need to copy the whole page but just the lines you want to change for these pages?

Thanks again
malc