How can I include a page in a sidebox?

[Ajeh]

To add a page such as the define page for shipping_info to a sidebox like:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/more_information.php

copy to your templates and overrides directory:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/your_template_dir/more_information.php

You can use:

    $add_a_page = zen_get_file_directory(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/html_includes/', FILENAME_DEFINE_SHIPPINGINFO, 'false');
    $more_information[] = require($define_page); 

To add to a tpl_something.php you would use:

    $add_a_page = zen_get_file_directory(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/html_includes/', FILENAME_DEFINE_SHIPPINGINFO, 'false');
  $content .= require($add_a_page); 

[maxima]

Ajeh I really appreciate the help you attempt. However you are presenting it as if to a fellow programmer at your level and I am not even a beggining programmer.

All that you have posted really is not logical to me so I don't know how to apply it. If you could just present the fix for the file structure that I have created all will be solved. Please just look over the codes I have below and add the correct codes in the exact way to make this work.

I am not using the override, just changing the files of the default.

Files created:
1. The file that collects the info from the text editor in admin - Working perfect. It shows up in the list of the Define Pages Editor and I can write to it using the text editor
includes/languages/english/html_includes/define_textbox.php

2. The file that displays the sidebox choice in the Layout Boxes Controller in admin - Working perfectly. I see it in the list of define pages and can choose it and displays on the site pages correctly
includes/modules/sideboxes/textbox.php

<?php
/**
* new side box
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: search.php 2834 2006-01-11 22:16:37Z birdbrain $
*/

require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_textbox.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_textbox.php');

$title = '<label>' . BOX_HEADING_STUFF . '</label>';
$title_link = false;
require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
?>

3. The file that is to call the content from define_tecxtbox.php - Not working.
includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_textbox.php

<?php
/**
* Side Box Template
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: tpl_search.php 4142 2006-08-15 04:32:54Z drbyte $
*/
$content = "";
$content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent centeredContent">';
$add_a_page = zen_get_file_directory(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/html_includes/', FILENAME_DEFINE_TEXTBOX, 'false');
$content .= 'This is where I want the include page. If I write the content here like this red text sentence then it appears on the site pages without error but I'd rather have the include page.';
$content .= '</div>';
?>

[maxima]

Many others will benefit from this if it is ever figured

[Ajeh]

Where is this defined?
FILENAME_DEFINE_TEXTBOX

What do you have it set to?

[maxima]

I created a header_php.php in includes/modules/pages/textbox/

<?php
/**
* Page 2
*
* @package page
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: header_php.php 3230 2006-03-20 23:21:29Z drbyte $
*/
require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory('require_languages.php'));
$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE);

// include template specific file name defines
$add_a_page = zen_get_file_directory(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/html_includes/', FILENAME_DEFINE_TEXTBOX, 'false');
$more_information[] = require($define_page);

?>

based on my interpretation of previous instructions

[Ajeh]

This constant itself needs to be defined:
FILENAME_DEFINE_TEXTBOX

You have to have somewhere a define statement that says what that constant means ...

Example, page 2 is setup as:

define('FILENAME_DEFINE_PAGE_2', 'define_page_2'); 

You need to have your constant setup as well ...

This can be done in your own file in the:
/includes/extra_datafiles

Create your own file such as:
/includes/extra_datafiles/my_defines.php

<?php
define('FILENAME_DEFINE_TEXTBOX', 'define_textbox.php');
?>

This is an autoloading directory ...

[Minnie Mouse]

hi, i am also trying to do this. i almost have it, but for the life of me cannot figure out why it is doing the following: placing the text from the define page (define_page_5) outside the template for the sidebox.

so it looks like this...
define page_5 text
rightboxheading
rightboxcontent= 1

here is what my code looks like on the tpl_more_information.php page
$content = '';
$content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent">' . "\n" ;
$add_a_page = zen_get_file_directory(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/html_includes/', FILENAME_DEFINE_PAGE_5, 'false');
$content .= require($add_a_page);
$content .= '</div>';
the div appears below the define page content.

[Minnie Mouse]

oh, and then i get a 1 inside the div, as if its telling me that $more_information exists...