Admin-Editable Sidebox - Support Thread

Hmmm... Okay. I want a sidebox that I can turn on and off on a per product basis. There, that does it!

ckosloff:

Well, I escaped all characters to the best of my ability, and also added the / before index.php as suggested.
No joy, still breaking the site.
Could one of you guys take a look, please.
What am I missing?
PS. Sorry to post in this thread but to my knowledge there is no support thread for blank sidebox.Sorry but both the javascript and the CSS in this are written in a rather old-fashioned, intrusive fashion, very different to how I write my javascript, and so I'm not able to be authoritative about the syntax. I would though suggest that you have no need to escape semi-colons, and doing so would probably confuse your site.

travellers:

Hmmm... Okay. I want a sidebox that I can turn on and off on a per product basis. There, that does it!
Then you're posting in the wrong thread. That's not what this mod is about.

You'd be better off looking in the FAQ where you'll find a tutorial about restricting which EZ-Pages a sidebox appears on. This would work equally well using the product's ID in place of the ezpage_id.

kuroi:

Then you're posting in the wrong thread. That's not what this mod is about.

You'd be better off looking in the FAQ where you'll find a tutorial about restricting which EZ-Pages a sidebox appears on. This would work equally well using the product's ID in place of the ezpage_id.

Many thanks for the pointer - I'll try that option now. And apologies for 'crashing' your thread!

kuroi:

Sorry but both the javascript and the CSS in this are written in a rather old-fashioned, intrusive fashion, very different to how I write my javascript, and so I'm not able to be authoritative about the syntax. I would though suggest that you have no need to escape semi-colons, and doing so would probably confuse your site.
Thanks for answer, but still no joy.
Here's the tpl file, with all semi-colons unescaped, it breaks the site in the same way.
I am unable to determine which line is causing the site to crash.
Is there a debugger that I can use for these cases?
If you would take another look, it would be much appreciated.

Site: jpfinewines.com

Getting the editable sidebox to work should be the last puzzle piece for getting the shell of my site up. Now my issues.

I have it all installed. I changed the title of new sidebox once when I didn't think I was going to use the sidebox, now that I'm using it, I can't for the life of me figure out where to change it again.

Also, I tried using the Define pages editor to put what I want in the box, but it doesn't show up in the sidebox.

Lastly, does anyone know if the ajax system **(http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=236) **will work in the editable sidebox? I use it for the rest of the site and what things to match. Thanks

stlnyc:

Site: jpfinewines.com

Getting the editable sidebox to work should be the last puzzle piece for getting the shell of my site up. Now my issues.

I have it all installed. I changed the title of new sidebox once when I didn't think I was going to use the sidebox, now that I'm using it, I can't for the life of me figure out where to change it again.

Also, I tried using the Define pages editor to put what I want in the box, but it doesn't show up in the sidebox.

Lastly, does anyone know if the ajax system **(http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=236) **will work in the editable sidebox? I use it for the rest of the site and what things to match. Thanks

OK, I reinstalled the sidebox mod and I was able to clear up my first 2 issues. Still looking for assistance with the ajax mod and if it will work with the editable sidebox. Thanks

stlnyc:

OK, I reinstalled the sidebox mod and I was able to clear up my first 2 issues. Still looking for assistance with the ajax mod and if it will work with the editable sidebox. ThanksNot really. That's a dynamic (i.e. database accessing) mod that comes with its own sidebox. The Admin Editable Sidebox is a way of easily adding static data to a sidebox using the HTML Editors available in Admin.

By using the editable sidebox, can I create pages that link to other pages that are in the regular zen category box? I was hoping to use the second box to cross reference the main box and give customers a alternate way to search for products. Thanks

stlnyc:

By using the editable sidebox, can I create pages that link to other pages that are in the regular zen category box? I was hoping to use the second box to cross reference the main box and give customers a alternate way to search for products. Thanks
This can be done, you can put links in editable sidebox.
However, I don't see the utility of your project, no harm meant.
There are plenty menus out there that accomplish excellent results.

kuroi I have a question related to this thread. Forgive the intrusion if I am doing this incorrectly as this is my first ever post. I have easily installed the editable sidebox without problem or snag. My question is ... Can you or anyone else give me any insight on how to incorporate rokslideshow into the editable sidebox. I have tried several times without success. I think it is the fact I have the inability to incorporate the code into the proper php file or to modify the editable sidebox div tag correctly. I have found no information on this within this thread or in relation to zen cart. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance

daaby:

kuroi I have a question related to this thread. Forgive the intrusion if I am doing this incorrectly as this is my first ever post. I have easily installed the editable sidebox without problem or snag. My question is ... Can you or anyone else give me any insight on how to incorporate rokslideshow into the editable sidebox. I have tried several times without success. I think it is the fact I have the inability to incorporate the code into the proper php file or to modify the editable sidebox div tag correctly. I have found no information on this within this thread or in relation to zen cart. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance
I'll try to give you some insight, possibly kuroi will answer too.
Editable Sidebox is not the best mod. to incorporate code, blank sidebox is recommended instead.
What is rokslideshow? certainly not a Zen Cart mod., otherwise it would have its own sidebox.
I have run into incompatibilities myself, as you can see from previous posts, I am now testing if <iframe> can solve these issues, by simply showing inside the sidebox what is happening in an entirely different page.
Can't do much testing though as I just changed webhosts and am still testing for other stuff.
Hope this helps.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74110&page=7
User misty is working on slideshow in a sidebox, not yet ready for release but looks great in his test site.

ckosloff:

I'll try to give you some insight, possibly kuroi will answer too.
Editable Sidebox is not the best mod. to incorporate code, blank sidebox is recommended instead.
What is rokslideshow? certainly not a Zen Cart mod., otherwise it would have its own sidebox.
I have run into incompatibilities myself, as you can see from previous posts, I am now testing if <iframe> can solve these issues, by simply showing inside the sidebox what is happening in an entirely different page.
Can't do much testing though as I just changed webhosts and am still testing for other stuff.
Hope this helps.
Thank you very much...I overlooked the blank sidebox during my first journey through add on land :). Looks very workable for my needs of a customized addition to my site. Yes I have looked at misty's site in my journey through the forums educating myself into zen cart functions and code. I am using https://www.datescam.net as a testing site currenty for another site I am building. Just put it up a week ago. I am going to build a slide show using jscript. Have not seen any conflicts published about jscripts and zencart. Have you heard or seen any? Oh well off the post issue. Thanking you again. May B me B zenned. Later Daaby

ckosloff is right about the blank sidebox. The Admin Editable sidebox was intended primarily as a way of adding HTML content via the define pages editor. For adding custom content other ways, the blank sidebox offers a cleaner start and more guidance.

There are no incompatibilitioes between Zen Cart and javascript. Indeed Zen Cart uses javascript and has a sophisticated mechanism for loading it. There's a readme file about it int he docs folder that comes with the Zen Cart release package.

Where problems do sometimes occur they appear to be more about issues integrating javascript directly into php code. This is tricky and not an approach that I would recommend. Better to load it using the Zen Cart mechanism provided and mingle only calls to the functions loaded with the other code.

@kuroi,
I solved the incompatibility issue of that javascript by putting it in an html page and linking to it with an iframe.
I know it's not in a sidebox now, it is in the main page, but even there, it was breaking the site without the iframe, possibly because of the other javascript running on that page.
I know it is a bad script, there are lots of things that I need to polish, but, what the heck, it works for now.
I think this iframe concept could solve a lot of problems, I'll try to work in putting a slideshow in there, maybe a parallel development to what misty is doing.

Does this work in version 1.3.8a or do I need to download something else instead?

Thanks!!
Sarah

ssdsarah:

Does this work in version 1.3.8a or do I need to download something else instead?It should work in any version of Zen Cart that starts 1.3.....

Indeed!! It's awesome!! Thanks so much!! :D

Huggles!!
Sarah

Hi Kuroi
I try to install the Dynamic Sideboxes in your module blank_sidebox
In your mdule only I can put one image, I don´t know how put more and show ramdom.

I seek in the forum a support of the Dynamic Sideboxes module, but the comments are shortly.

This is the url of Dynamic Sideboxes
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=232

Maybe you can helpme with this module to complement the option that I need.

Thanks

Rolando Maldonado
https://www.todoenguate.com