Custom Forms - Help?

[TurtleDove]

Hi all,

I found a previous thread that someone else had posted about custom forms. I tried using that thread (from Dr.Byte & Wayne) as a guide in helping me create my own custom form for my website.

I copied and pasted the files that Doc had made, and uploaded them into the proper folders as he had written. I also changed the name "band-signup" to "birthday_club".

I went back to my site, which is, www.pawglamour.com/catalog

How do I get rid of that error?

I am a COMPLETE novice at php, and don't know what to do.

Help?

[DrByte]

please post the first 10 lines of your
/includes/extra_datafiles/birthday_club.php

[TurtleDove]

I don't even have 10 lines...


<?php
// define the filenames used in the project
* define('FILENAME_BIRTHDAY_CLUB', 'birthday_club');
?>

[DrByte]

The * in that line is invalid syntax. Remove it.

[TurtleDove]

Oh Thanks! That solved the problem.

But...

What now? I copied and pasted and saved the files to the proper folders. Shouldn't my 'Birthday Club' have the form in it now?

[DrByte]

If you used band_signup as a base to work from, then the URL to your birthday_club form would logically be:

http://pawglamour.com/catalog/index....=birthday_club

... but of course, that's revealing another error ;)

[TurtleDove]

Well Doc, for all you wiz' at php, it may be logical but to me, it's just .

So, like the first error you pointed out, the problem was the '*'. I took all of them out, and finally got the form to display on the page!

But, the form is in the BOTTOM of the page, not where I'd like it to be (in between the sideboxes). http://pawglamour.com/catalog/index....=birthday_club.

How do I make it so its in between the sideboxes?

The code looks exactly like the tpl_bandsignup_default that you posted in Wayne's thread, except for the *s and 'band-signup' of course.

[DrByte]

lol -- my comment about "logical" was meant to be an educational statement, not a "slam" against you ;) .... sorry ... I could have worded it more gently.

1. In looking at your site, I see that you have a line near the top of your tpl_birthday_club_default.php file that says:

<tablewidth="70%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" >

You might want to split "tablewidth" into two words:

<table width="70%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" >

2. In that same file, right above that table, you have a statement about zen_draw_form(FILENAME_BAND_SIGNUP, 'band_signup', .......
You probably need to change that to FILENAME_BIRTHDAY_CLUB

3. Related to #2, check to be sure that you've defined 'FILENAME_BIRTHDAY_CLUB', usually in a file in the /includes/extra_datafiles folder

define('FILENAME_BIRTHDAY_CLUB', 'birthday_club'); 

[TurtleDove]

Sweet! Thanks a whole lot! One more thing though, how do I take off the 'double legend' on the top where it says 'Home Band Sign-Up' twice?

[DrByte]

In the top of that same template file, you have a section that starts with this:

 <td class="breadCrumb" colspan="2">  .................

You need to remove that table cell, since it's carryover from a prior version.