Ez pages and toc

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ... :smile:

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.

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

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

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

gjh42 ... WORKS GREAT !

But ofcourse there's always more and more tweaking to be done as you change one thing. The TOC sidebox dissapears completely as i click on a link (the one's with internal links) So i have to use a back button ... Is there a way to keep the sidebox still ... thnx !

The TOC sidebox module file has logic that makes it only show when on an ez-page. You would need to alter this logic so that it shows when on one of the internal linked pages.

Another thing you could do is set all internal/external links to open in a new window. That way, when the user is done with the page, they can close the window/tab and have the original still there. This is definitely a workaround, not a real solution.

that actually sounds like a good workaround .. i'll try that out first ... im not good at code so i'll start ther first ... thnx !

gjh42 ... tried that out and doesn't work at all ... doesn't pop up in new window ... i'm on localhost so popup blocker wouldn't be a cause ... any suggestions ? thnx...

I have no suggestions on that, because I do get a new window when clicking an ez-page link set for that. I haven't used the sidebox mods described, so can't say for sure that it will behave the same way.