EZ Page display from php code

[MarkoSiroki]

Dear Sirs and Madams!

URGENT

Can someone tell me please, how to show the contents of some newly created ez page, created from admin section of zen cart, from php code. Here is my situation clarified: I have two ez pages, which display must be enabled/disabled from checkbox entry in custom module (configuration module for these two ez pages). Let's say display ez pages check box is enabled and this flag is saved into some custom table in database. Now, the user starts to browse products on our webshop and once he/she clicks some product category, ez page (instead of subcategories) must be shown in browser. How do I achieve that?

URGENT

I am zen cart newbie and I politly ask for some patience with potentialy dumb question.

Sincerely,
Marko

[stevesh]

Since EZ pages content is stored in the database, it isn't as easy as placing your code in t page. Maybe an option here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...EZ-Page-In-PHP

[MarkoSiroki]

Thank you for your quick reply, but I think my question was posted in some unclear way. I am aware of problem you mentioned, but before this problem, I need to solve showing ez page (with just text inside it, nothing more) FROM custom php script programmatically. How do I achieve that?

Sincerely,
Marko

[DrByte]

Now, the user starts to browse products on our webshop and once he/she clicks some product category, ez page (instead of subcategories) must be shown in browser. How do I achieve that?

You said you want to display an ezpage instead of the category. So just add some custom code to redirect the customer to index.php?main_page=page&id=XX where XX is the ezpage number.

Without knowing EXACTLY what you want to do and WHY, it's very difficult to give you a specific exact answer. Please supply specific examples and URLs and explain the business problem you're trying to solve.

[MarkoSiroki]

Ok, let's say we have main page with categories visible on left side of this main page (named "PAGE_MAIN") with three categories (CATEGORY A with 5 subcategories, CATEGORY B with 2 subcategories and CATEGORY C with 7 subcategories). In the backoffice (admin area) there has been EZ page created, named "EZ_PAGE_A". I want to create php script, which will redirect click on CATEGORY_B from showing subcategories (default behaviour) to EZ_PAGE_A, if EZ_PAGE_A_ENABLE bit is set in custom table, added to zen cart database. How do I achieve that?

Sincerely,
Marko

[DrByte]

Isn't that what I said in my last post? You just want to make a category invisible to the user, and instead display an ezpage.

Simply write your custom code in the /includes/modules/pages/index/header_php.php to redirect to the desired ezpage when the specified cPath is selected.
No need to use a special script to extract ezpage data without headers and footers etc.

[MarkoSiroki]

Ok, I've digged into php and how do I get currently selected category?

[jackie.taferner]

For anyone else that may stumble upon this thread looking for the same thing; simply add this PHP code wherever you want that EZpage content to show up:

<?php $var_pageDetails = $db->Execute("select * from " . TABLE_EZPAGES . " where pages_id = 2");
echo $var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text']; ?>

Replace the number 2 with whatever EZpage ID you want (eg. where pages_id = 4")