Lowdown on adding pages to INFORMATION Sidebox

[Peace Freak]

I want to add just a couple of links to the INFORMATION Sidebox... One might be ‘How To Pay...’

I have done a bit of searching but cannot decide what would be the easiest way to do it. I know I can edit the defing_pages 2, 3 and 4 in the Define Pages Editor, but I can’t seem to find a way to add the finished products to the INFORMATION Sidebox...

And likewise for the E-Z pages, yes, I can easily make a page there, but again, I could not find an easy way to get it into the sidebox... I believe the E-Z Pages has its own sidebox but I don’t thing two links deserve a separate box and the space it takes up...

I know this has been discussed at length in several posts, but if someone can give me the current best way to go, I would appreciate it..

Thanks!

[barco57]

go to admin:

configure-define pages status

you can turn page 2,3,4 on there

[Peace Freak]

Hi,

Thanks, have turned on Page 1 , 2 etc in Configuration/Define Page Status, but they still do not show up... I have the value for them set to 1. I can make the other items in there appear or disappear (Shipping, Privacy etc.) but not the Pages...

I should mention that Page 1, 2 etc appear in the site map, but not in the Information Sidebox.

What am I missing?

[graper]

Hi,

Thanks, have turned on Page 1 , 2 etc in Configuration/Define Page Status, but they still do not show up... I have the value for them set to 1. I can make the other items in there appear or disappear (Shipping, Privacy etc.) but not the Pages...

I should mention that Page 1, 2 etc appear in the site map, but not in the Information Sidebox.

What am I missing?

You're not really missing anything. There are 2 seperate boxes that are named similarly. One is named just "Inoformation" and the other is names More Information. I too would like to know if there is an interface for the "information" sidebox. Spcifically is there a way to add items to the sidebox without having to edit a file. It seems that under ADMIN > Configuration > Define Pages Status allow a page to be shown or not, but I cannot edit the title of a page or add a page. Removing of a page would be great as well.

[Peace Freak]

I see! You were right. Now that I have turned on the More Information Sidebox I can see the extra pages I have made. I am going to mess around a bit more and see if there is an easy way to get everything to appear in the Information Sidebox.

[Rabbcon]

Peace,

Did you find a fix for this?

[Rabbcon]

OK...answer found!

File Location: includes/YOURTEMPLATE/sidebox/tpl_information.php

Go to line (near or around) 14.

Find this section of code:

for ($i=0; $i<5; $i++) {
    $content .='<li>'.preg_replace('/^([^>]+>)/i', '$1', $information[$i]) . '</li>' . "\n";
  }

Notice the "5"? That is the max number of links the Information Box will display. You can modify that number to what you want.

For example, I changed mine from "5" to "30":

for ($i=0; $i<30; $i++) {
    $content .='<li>'.preg_replace('/^([^>]+>)/i', '$1', $information[$i]) . '</li>' . "\n";
  }

Notice the "30"? I won't be using 30 links but I would like to see what this Information Sidebox will look like if I have lets say 15 links displayed. At that time I may think it looks ugly and then decide to utilize the More Information Sidebox.

This fix just gives a bit more control in your display as you tweak the cosmetic portion of your site.

I hope this helps you all.

[Peace Freak]

Hi,

Actually, I could not find an easy solution and gave up due to time restraints...

Thanks for your input on this. When I next have some time I would like to give things are try.

Keep us up to speed on your progress, and final recommendations, if you can.

[cheersdude]

Thanks Rabbcon, your post has helped me out, I wanted to drop the Gift Certificate, Discount Coupons & Unsubcribe Newsletter so I just changed maximum pages to 5 ;)

[Rabbcon]

I'm glad it helped you.