Ez pages and toc

[djbelize]

Hello, I recently watched a video on youtube explaining how to use the TOC and chapter settings. I understood everything and have been doing it correctly since the table is created. My 2 questions regard the style and internal links. I have posted the link to the video below so you can see what i mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllTXz-c_r0

1) In the video her table of contents is in a small box to the side and the pages show up in the same page when you click the links. Is this a format you have to create through html with tables or is this edited in css ?

2) We can make ez pages link to an internal link for instance the "contact us" in the header when we click it to link to index.php?main_page=contact_us ... but say for instance i want to get rid of the contact us from the header and just put it into a (TOC) in say the "FAQ" page instead... which is what I'm trying to do ... i want to basically have shipping, privacy etc, all in a table of contents under the "FAQ" page... but it seems that when i give those pages an internal link to point to at they disappear from the table of contents menu ?

thank you.

[TShooters]

1). In the stylesheet. Search it for TOC.

2.) Did you give each page the same TOC setting, and a different chapter number? ie: TOC 10 - Chapter 10; TOC 10 - Chapter 20, etc.

[TShooters]

BTW, there's a couple of free add-ons :

EZ-Page Improved TOC
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1430

EZ-Pages TOC Sidebox
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=863

[gjh42]

say for instance i want to get rid of the contact us from the header and just put it into a (TOC) in say the "FAQ" page instead... which is what I'm trying to do ... i want to basically have shipping, privacy etc, all in a table of contents under the "FAQ" page...

This is one of the features of EZ-Page Improved TOC.

[djbelize]

Hi TShooters and gjh42 .. thnx for the reply ...

in my ez pages i have:

FAQ - CHAPTER: 10 TOC: 10
PRIVACY NOTICE - CHAPTER 10 TOC:20
CONTACT US - CHAPTER: 10 TOC: 30

In the table of contents "faq" and "privacy notice" show but i don't have them linked in anyway ... but "contact us" i have internal link to the contact us page and doesn't show ... if i rid the internal link it shows .. i will try the add- ons and see if that helps me out first ... and for the css part i found the TOC area and shifted it to float right ,,, but now the heading "table of contents" is larger than the box itself ... do i look for that aswell in css the same way? thnx so much TShooters and gjh42 ...

[gjh42]

Yes, you need the Improved TOC mod to get internal links to show in the TOC. They are intentionally disabled in the stock version, I believe to safeguard people from trying to use a prev/next page function which would fail if it hit an internal link instead of another real ez-page. The mod removes that safeguard, so you need to be aware and use the ez-page functions carefully.

[djbelize]

Hello TShooters and gjh42 Thanks for the repies again ...

I haven't been back cause I tried out the add-ons ... i got it to work ! ... it does what i'm looking for just need to work on the css to place it properly ... the only thing now is that i actually like the sidebox add-on :) ... it makes sense to just have the TOC gone and use a sidebox while on that page only ... but lol .. now the same problem occurs with the external links like before. If I disable the sidebox add-on and just use Improved TOC add-on ... external links work great ... but i have to remove external links if i want to even see the links show up in sidebox TOC ,,, it disappears from the box. Have you guys tried this out ? maybe I need to tweak my settings ? tried different on and off tweaks in layout boxes controller, e-z pages settings, and e-z pages ... or maybe there's an add-on for this too ? Thank You ...

[gjh42]

It would require transplanting the code from the Improvrd TOC mod to the sidebox mod - the existing sidebox will not display internal or external links ever.

[gjh42]

/includes/modules/sideboxes/ez_pages_toc.php has this SQL query which excludes internal and external links:

$pages_order_toc_query = "SELECT *
                      FROM " . TABLE_EZPAGES . "
                      WHERE ((status_toc = 1 and toc_sort_order <> 0) and toc_chapter= :chapterID )
                      AND alt_url_external = '' and alt_url = ''
                      ORDER BY toc_sort_order, pages_title"; 

Delete the
AND alt_url_external = '' and alt_url = ''
line and it should fetch all relevant pages.

[djbelize]

gjh42 ... thnx so much ... i will try it out right now ,,, didn't see this post till now .. :)