Help with adding products

[MPF]

I'm not sure what I have done wrong so I am hoping that someone here can help me.

I have added a category called 'Gift Certificates' and when I go to add a product to that category, I just get an Error 404 page (page not found).

What am I missing here? I'm really needing some help. Anyone?

Dean.

[Ajeh]

Have you added products before?

Almost sounds like a bad upload of files in the:
/admin

and all of the directories and files with a corrupt file causing this ...

The other cause could be bad Product Types ...

Peek in phpMyAdmin ... look at your database and the product_types table ...

Browse it ... what do you see in there?

[MPF]

Here is a screen dump of what you requested. Can you see anything wrong?

[Ajeh]

You have renamed all of the product types ...

But ... you did not create the code to go with your new names ...

Those fields are used to build filenames and constants and variables etc.

Unfortunately you cannot just make them up as you go along without building the file set to go with them ...

So the choice is to put that table back to the default settings ... or get coding to make all the new file sets needed to match your new product types ...

[MPF]

Thanks for your reply Linda. Is there a link that I can go to that explains how to do it right? I don't know what code to add so I really need somthing to read to get me going in the right direction.

Thankyou once again,
Dean.

[Ajeh]

Did you make all new Product Types or did you just rename things in the product_types table?

IF you just renamed things, do you intend to create full Product Type file sets for the catalog and admin?

If not, you can remake the product_types table back to its original format and that should fix things ...

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS product_types;
CREATE TABLE product_types (
  type_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  type_name varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  type_handler varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  type_master_type int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
  allow_add_to_cart char(1) NOT NULL default 'Y',
  default_image varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  date_added datetime NOT NULL default '0001-01-01 00:00:00',
  last_modified datetime NOT NULL default '0001-01-01 00:00:00',
  PRIMARY KEY  (type_id),
  KEY idx_type_master_type_zen (type_master_type)
) TYPE=MyISAM; 

INSERT INTO product_types VALUES (1, 'Product - General', 'product', '1', 'Y', '', now(), now());
INSERT INTO product_types VALUES (2, 'Product - Music', 'product_music', '1', 'Y', '', now(), now());
INSERT INTO product_types VALUES (3, 'Document - General', 'document_general', '3', 'N', '', now(), now());
INSERT INTO product_types VALUES (4, 'Document - Product', 'document_product', '3', 'Y', '', now(), now());
INSERT INTO product_types VALUES (5, 'Product - Free Shipping', 'product_free_shipping', '1', 'Y', '', now(), now());