How do EZ-Pages work?

[gayelston]

For some reason EZ Pages consisting of internal links to define pages such as 'contact us' do not appear in tables-of-contents even when given the same chapter#. Is this to be expected? Is this a defect, and are there workarounds?

I want to keep using certain define pages such as contact us or for gift certificates because they have interactive forms beyond the straight HTML that the EZ pages generally contain--but I was hoping to avoid putting these EZ pages at the top level of the hierarchy, instead putting them as sub-chapters underneath a top-level parent 'Customer Service' EZ page.

Thanks in advance.

-Andrew

Hi,
I had a similar problem: I wanted my ezpages to be for Helpfiles, FAQs & Projects for products I sell on my website, like the ones I have offline at the moment.
In the FAQs I will have a page or two with a list of questions, each question being a link to an answer page that doen't appear anywhere else.
Only the heading page, eg Gallery Glass FAQs, would appear in the sidebox, the rest is all done by these links, but NOT the internal link facility that is used by ezpages.
I could only do this once I had installed fckeditor!
Now I have my pages all listed as links & only appearing once the link is selected, & I can have as many links on the one page as I need.
Someone else asked about the url of an ezpage.
Make a page that you want to show in the sidebox, go to your website, select that page, copy the url.
This is one of mine: http://www.artyfactsforcrafts.com/ze...id=9&chapter=2
The bit that says page&id=9& is the bit that refers to one particular page, I just change that number to reflect which page I want selected.
I personally save that address on a notepad page so I can copy & paste any time I need a page address, & just change the number id as needed.
You find the number id on Tools Ezpages Select a Page on the left hand side under ID.
Hope that helps.
Regards
######
http://www.artyfactsforcrafts.com

[andrewg_ny]

Hi,
I had a similar problem: I wanted my ezpages to be for Helpfiles, FAQs & Projects for products I sell on my website, like the ones I have offline at the moment.
In the FAQs I will have a page or two with a list of questions, each question being a link to an answer page that doen't appear anywhere else.
Only the heading page, eg Gallery Glass FAQs, would appear in the sidebox, the rest is all done by these links, but NOT the internal link facility that is used by ezpages.
I could only do this once I had installed fckeditor!
Now I have my pages all listed as links & only appearing once the link is selected, & I can have as many links on the one page as I need.
Someone else asked about the url of an ezpage.
Make a page that you want to show in the sidebox, go to your website, select that page, copy the url.
This is one of mine: http://www.artyfactsforcrafts.com/ze...id=9&chapter=2
The bit that says page&id=9& is the bit that refers to one particular page, I just change that number to reflect which page I want selected.
I personally save that address on a notepad page so I can copy & paste any time I need a page address, & just change the number id as needed.
You find the number id on Tools Ezpages Select a Page on the left hand side under ID.
Hope that helps.
Regards
######
http://www.artyfactsforcrafts.com

######, thanks for your response. However, I don't think this is exactly the issue I am facing--I don't seem to be having a problem including other EZ Pages. The issue is that the Define pages such as 'Contact Us' and Gift Certificate Redemption will not appear in the table of contents--only if I have direct links to them in the sidebars. These cannot be easily converted to EZ Pages as they include interactive forms.

-Andrew

[theredhead]

I'm still looking for and answer to this question:

New question - is there a simple way to have the New Products for XXX display at the bottom on an EZ-Page?

Can I go through and add a chunk of code to each easy page to get this functionality or...?

Thanks!

-the redhead-

[kuroi]

is there a simple way to have the New Products for XXX display at the bottom on an EZ-Page?

There's not really an easy way to add it to individual EZ-Pages, but you could copy the code that calls in this listing box in tpl_index_default.php to tpl_page_default and if required add some filters to restrict the display to certain pages.

[theredhead]

is there a simple way to have the New Products for XXX display at the bottom on an EZ-Page?

There's not really an easy way to add it to individual EZ-Pages, but you could copy the code that calls in this listing box in tpl_index_default.php to tpl_page_default and if required add some filters to restrict the display to certain pages.

Thanks for the answer. This is exactly the kind of thing I thought might work.

I tried it out, but think I was using the wrong code (or leaving out important parts or dropping in too much code or...). The upshot is I broke those pages.

Can you point out the right bits of code to use?

Thanks.

-the redhead-

[countrycharm]

TShooters what file do you put the code in. I lost you on that.

<div align="center"><img src="../images/mypics/myimage.jpg" alt=""></img></div>

[TShooters]

..what file do you put the code in. I lost you on that.

Put the code in the "HTML Content:" box of the EZPage you're creating
in Admin/Tools/EZPages.

[theredhead]

There's not really an easy way to add it to individual EZ-Pages, but you could copy the code that calls in this listing box in tpl_index_default.php to tpl_page_default and if required add some filters to restrict the display to certain pages.

Kuroi -

Thanks again for the tip. I have tried multiple versions of putting the New Products listing box into the tpl_page_default with no success. I've used progressively larger chunks of code, but nothing is showing up on the EZ pages.

Do you have any further suggestions for enabling this functionality? To refresh, I'm trying to add the standard New Products listing to the bottom of my EZ pages.

-the redhead-

[webchills]

Is it possible to define language constants for the ez pages template tpl_page_default?
I can't find any language file which is called by an ez-page.
I tried languages/english/extra_definitions/ez_pages_definitions.php, languages/english/page_default.php or page.php. Or the general english.php
Nothing worked.
I use multilanguage ez-pages and want to use some kind of navigation header with an own text in the template. So i have to use something like this in the template:

<h1 id="ez"><?php echo TITLE_EZPAGE_MAIN; ?></h1>
<h2 id="ez"><?php echo TITLE_EZPAGE_SUB; ?></h2>

In which language file can i put my
define('TITLE_EZPAGE_MAIN','BlaBlaBla');

I don' t want to put this section at the top of every ez-page.

[webchills]

I found a solution. Had to create a includes/extra_datafiles/page_filenames.php and the the definition from a page.php was shown.