I am trying to create an HTML page that will be laid out the same way as the multiple products page and that will update to show any new products and categories as they are added just as the original would.
The reason for this is that i would like to rename the pages that are usually represented by a long string of characters so they are search engine optimised. I cannot install the patches for SEO pagenames as I cannot upgrade easily to v.1.3.2. I also wish to have full control over what is on the page that the customer sees without hacking into the original code, just refering to it and taking what i would like to display, and adding other things that are not in the original coding. I must stress that I do not wish to alter the original pages in any way. This page will be accessed via other html pages that i have successfully copied from the original pages.
I have tried going into the source code for the page and copying the code into and html file. This gives me an exact ############## of the page. The problem is that if I add any new categories or products, these will not show as the code is an html version of the page before any additions and does not replicate any new additions to the original page.
From what I can tell I will need to create the content from the original files by using the <?php echo> command and refer them to the parts of info that i would like to display. I have tried doing this in a number of ways without success.
My first question is, would I be using the correct method by using <?php echo>?
Secondly, is there any suggestions for how I should code this?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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