Adding NEW links to the Information Sidebox

[Donn]

I am trying to add two new pages to my Information Sidebox. I've read many messages about this, and did some experimenting, but can't get this to work.

I noticed an add-on module to automatically add new pages to More_information, but I wanted to do this manually to learn how the pageswork.


I entered this SQL patch via the admin area: (taken from the discussion of the add-on mod to add pages to More Info)

insert into configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, 
configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, last_modified, date_added, 
use_function, set_function) values ('Define Site News', 'DEFINE_SITE_NEWS_STATUS', '1', 'Enable 
the Defined Site News Link/Text?<br />0= Link ON, Define Text OFF<br />1= Link ON, Define 
Text ON<br />2= Link OFF, Define Text ON<br />3= Link OFF, Define Text OFF', '25', '85', 
now(), now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'0\', \'1\', \'2\', \'3\'),');

insert into configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, 
configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, last_modified, date_added, 
use_function, set_function) values ('Define Feedback', 'DEFINE_FEEDBACK_STATUS', '1', 'Enable 
the Defined Feedback Link/Text?<br />0= Link ON, Define Text OFF<br />1= Link ON, Define 
Text ON<br />2= Link OFF, Define Text ON<br />3= Link OFF, Define Text OFF', '25', '85', 
now(), now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'0\', \'1\', \'2\', \'3\'),');

The options for setting the two pages then appeared in Admin, under Config.

I set both pages to 1. (What do the other non-zero options do?!)



Next, I added the following to my information.php file:

 if (DEFINE_SITE_NEWS_STATUS <= 1) {
    $information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_SITE_NEWS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_SITE_NEWS . '</a>';
  }
  if (DEFINE_FEEDBACK_STATUS <= 1) {
    $information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_FEEDBACK) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_FEEDBACK . '</a>';

Next, English.Php file:

  define('BOX_INFORMATION_FEEDBACK', 'Feedback!');
  define('BOX_INFORMATION_SITE_NEWS', 'Site News');

To filenames.php, I added:

define('FILENAME_DEFINE_SITE_NEWS', 'define_site_news');
define('FILENAME_DEFINE_FEEDBACK', 'define_feedback');
define('FILENAME_SITE_NEWS', 'site_news');
define('FILENAME_FEEDBACK', 'feedback');

(did I actually need BOTH? ( I think so; One does the 'nav' part, the other the actual HTML)


Next, I placed files into
includes/languages/english
feedback.php
site_news.php

Each looks like this:

<?php


define('NAVBAR_TITLE', 'Feedback');
define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Feedback');

define('TEXT_INFORMATION', 'Page 3 text goes here.');
?>

And in includes/languages/english/html includes/custom_template/

I placed the actual HTML file, error-free and containing nothing but straight html.



What I get is....
The two names appear in the Information sidebox.
They are clickable.
When I click on them, though, the pages that TRY loads are:

.....cart/index.php?main_page=feedback
.....cart/index.php?main_page=site_news

and I am taken to the internal cart 404 error page.

I have tried solving this with the sole help of messages, wikis, and other zen-cart info that's on the site, but I cannot figure out what's wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PS---I saved the filenames correctly on the server with regard to case-sensitivity...

[kobra]

Have you created the defines pages??

includes/language/english/html_includes/your template name/define_feedback.php

includes/languages/english/html_includes/your template name/define_site_news.phps

[Donn]

Have you created the defines pages??

includes/language/english/html_includes/your template name/define_feedback.php

includes/languages/english/html_includes/your template name/define_site_news.phps

Yes; both were included in this folder...

Those files included the actual HTML assigned to the pages...

[kobra]

ere are 8 things to effect this

Get the about us module to review what they are

[Donn]

ere are 8 things to effect this

Get the about us module to review what they are

THank you so much for directing me to that module!

I was able to check one at a time, and found what was messed up.

1.The files that belonged in

includes\languages\english\html_includes\MYTEMPLATE\

had not been put in there, only in

includes\languages\english\html_includes\


2. I had no header.php file in
\includes\templates\MYTEMPLATE\templates

THANK YOU!!!!

[oriwell]

HELP PLEASE !!!,
I followed all the steps in the module and after updating the SQL everything worked except that now ALL of my pages show the header of the About us I added insted of the correct header ...
What do I have to do to fix it ?
Thank you for the prompt reply

my website is www .shop. yogi baby .com.au