How do EZ-Pages work?

Hey Verybyte,

Go to sourceforge.net and download xammp. install it and you will have an apache server on your computer to test things on. It loads php and mysql at the same time.

You may want to try easyphp, it's a bit easier to create a site in.

Now I'm trying to understand what your question is.

Are you asking how to use ez-pages? or how to add them to the TOC? because I'm pretty sure that it automaticly adds them to the sidebox.

If you want, I'll provide you with a hosting account to test things on. Just don't spam my server.

JP

I'm having a problem here. I don't have 'EZ Pages Settings' showing under Configuration in the admin section.

Does anyone knows why this happens? I'm using ZC 1.3.7.

Thanks.

tj1:

I don't have 'EZ Pages Settings' showing under Configuration in the admin section.

Does anyone knows why this happens? I'm using ZC 1.3.7.Is yours a clean install if 1.3.7 or an upgrade?
Do you have many Admin add-ons installed?
If you go into your database (e.g. using phpMy Admin) and look at the configuration_group table, what is in the entry that goes with configuration_group_id = 30?
Similarly for the configuration table, what do you have in entries 530-540?

It's an upgrade. I've meaning to ask about this for a long time, but I never had a real need for ez-pages until now.

I've upgraded from 1.3.02 to 1.3.7. The previous upgrade I believe was from 1.2.7 to 1.3.0.2

The only admin add-ons I have installed is easypopulate.

I don't have anything for configuration_group_id=30. It goes from 1 to 25 and then easypopulate has id 33.

I don't have any entries in the configuration table with id's 530-540.

Ok, I'm just having trouble with this... It's simply not working for me.

I'm trying to get my site to show a link to a page I created via EZpages.

Here's how I have it set up:

I don't see any link on the footer.. here's a URL to my site:
http://wishgiving.com/index.php

What have I been doing wrong? Could it be because I'm using a custom template?

Look at your other thread for the same question to the possible solution for this ... :smile:

Hello,

I have ez-pages setup but it is not showing up on my frontpage. I have read all of the threads regarding them and set them up exactly to what they have said in the threads. So I believe I have a corrupted file of database somewhere along the line.

What I want to do it reload only the ez-page file and database portion. where do I find all of the files in the 1.3.7v zip file and the what entries in a fresh installed database do i take?

EZ-Pages sits in the ezpages table ... :smile:

Hello,

Good afternoon everyone. Thank you ajeh but I'm an idiot. When I kept reading about the sort order needs to be a different number than 0 I thought that you were talking about the ex-pages sidebox in the LayoutBox Controller in the admin>tools. So now I have ez-pages working just fine.

My new question is I want an external link to load within one of the ez-pages I made. So what I did was use a frame tag and posted the html in the editor but when I saved it the frameset html was removed. So my question is how do I get content from this external link to load within the ez-page.

here is the html I used in the ez-page:

<FRAMESET cols="95%">
  <FRAME src="http://www.??????.com/configurator.aspx?Settings=D2025479555555659">
  <NOFRAMES>
      <P>This frameset document contains:
      <UL>
         <LI><A href="contents_of_frame1.html">Some neat contents</A>
         <LI><IMG src="contents_of_frame2.gif" alt="A neat image">
         <LI><A href="contents_of_frame3.html">Some other neat contents</A>
      </UL>
  </NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>

what do you suggest

Hi all, i'm wondering if something is possible..

Now i know that it currently isn't possible to add additional ez-page sideboxes, but i would still like to divide up the ez-page sidebox into sections, divided by different headings..

For example :

HEADING 1

• ezpage content link
• ezpage content link
  HEADING 2
• ezpage content link
• ezpage content link
  HEADING 3
• ezpage content link

etc etc, all in the same box of course.

I think this may be possible by editing the for loop in tpl_ezpages.php, i'm just not sure what to add

I was thinking something along the lines of, if the $box_id is greater than 50, it is under $header2, if its greater than 100, its under $header3 etc etc

and $header2 and 3 are obviously just defined in tpl_ezpages.php as
$header2 = zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . 'imagename.jpg');
$header3 = zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . 'imagename2.jpg');

I hope that makes sense, and i hope someone can assist me with it, i think it should be possible, i just have no idea how to create the necessary if statements, and whether or not there are other things i need to take into consideration..

Thanks

Disregard the above question, i've figured it out

I just added a 2nd for loop in tpl_ezpages.php, its probably not the most efficient way to do it, but it works just fine

What am I missing here?? :huh:

Objective: Add my Testimonials link to the "More Information" sidebox. You can see that've added the bottom line of code to more_information.php:

  unset($more_information);

// test if links should display
  if (DEFINE_PAGE_2_STATUS <= 1) {
    $more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PAGE_2) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PAGE_2 . '</a>';
  }
  if (DEFINE_PAGE_3_STATUS <= 1) {
    $more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PAGE_3) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PAGE_3 . '</a>';
  }
  if (DEFINE_PAGE_4_STATUS <= 1) {
    $more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PAGE_4) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PAGE_4 . '</a>';
  }
  if (DEFINE_DEFAULT_STATUS <= 1) {
    $more_information[] = '<a href="' . index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager_all_testimonials(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' 'Testimonials' '</a>';

But it's not showing up. I've been tweaking this thing forever, assuming the proper configuration is just around the corner.

Could someone who knows what they are doing point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

MeltDown:

What am I missing here?? :huh:

Objective: Add my Testimonials link to the "More Information" sidebox. You can see that've added the bottom line of code to more_information.php:

unset($more_information);

// test if links should display
if (DEFINE_PAGE_2_STATUS <= 1) {
$more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PAGE_2) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PAGE_2 . '</a>';
}
if (DEFINE_PAGE_3_STATUS <= 1) {
$more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PAGE_3) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PAGE_3 . '</a>';
}
if (DEFINE_PAGE_4_STATUS <= 1) {
$more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PAGE_4) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_PAGE_4 . '</a>';
}
if (DEFINE_DEFAULT_STATUS <= 1) {
$more_information[] = '<a href="' . index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager_all_testimonials(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' 'Testimonials' '</a>';

> 
> But it's not showing up. I've been tweaking this thing forever, assuming the proper configuration is just around the corner.
> 
> Could someone who knows what they are doing point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks!


I took care of this one. (Right or wrong, it WORKS! :cool: ) Here's the code I used:
```php
$more_information[] = '<a href="http://www.beadedlily.com/shop/index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager_all_testimonials">Testimonials</a>';

Tim

Hi Peeps

Im struggling to change the header on my EZpage... the inportant infomation...thingy mijiggy.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this please? Im not very techie :dontgetit

Many thanks

Thank you my question has been answered :smile:

Eve

kuroi:

With CSS if what you want isn't there, you just add it. For example, you could change the color of the EZ-Pages links at the top by adding the following to your stylesheet

Thanks for the info. Changed the colour to white with no probs but could someone also explain how to centre align the links? I'm assuming this is also done in the stylesheet but is it something I need to change or something I need to add?

CSS confuses the hell out of me so could you please be precise about what I should add/change and if it's adding lines, where I would need to add them?

Any help would be very appreciated.

Steve.

Hi, on the 1st page of this thread it says:

"NOTE: While all Links within a Chapter will display together, you can have the different Links display in the Header, Footer or Sidebox on their own. Or, you can have the additional Links only display when the Main Link or one of the Additional Links within the Chapter has been opened."

Does this mean if I have 3 links with the same chapter and their TOC are 10,20,30 (link #1, #2, #3 respectively) I can set it in the admin so that initially only link#1 shows, but when after I click on link#1, link#2 and link#3 also shows? Like clicking a main category link will show its sub category links for products?

dinosoup:

Hi, on the 1st page of this thread it says:

"NOTE: While all Links within a Chapter will display together, you can have the different Links display in the Header, Footer or Sidebox on their own. Or, you can have the additional Links only display when the Main Link or one of the Additional Links within the Chapter has been opened."

Does this mean if I have 3 links with the same chapter and their TOC are 10,20,30 (link #1, #2, #3 respectively) I can set it in the admin so that initially only link#1 shows, but when after I click on link#1, link#2 and link#3 also shows? Like clicking a main category link will show its sub category links for products?

Precisely. link #2 and link # 3 will only show in the table of contents though, not in the header, footer or sidebox.

To achieve this you just need to set the sidebox, header and footer status to off in the ezpages admin menu, but the table of contents on and ordered as you suggested.

spbennett:

Thanks for the info. Changed the colour to white with no probs but could someone also explain how to centre align the links? I'm assuming this is also done in the stylesheet but is it something I need to change or something I need to add?

CSS confuses the hell out of me so could you please be precise about what I should add/change and if it's adding lines, where I would need to add them?

Any help would be very appreciated.

Steve.

Can anyone help?

The problem I am having with EZ-Pages is that I am trying to make one a photo gallery and don't know how...any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Tiffany