Thread: advice pls

being new to all this i'm having teething troubles......hoping for some kind advice.

my problems are :

1) got my domain name electricalwholesaler.org.uk have transferred DNS to ns1 & ns2.vodahost.com eventually!I published the index file and after an hour or so was able to type in above address and see my work (chuffed to bits, please don't laugh) however, having told a few people the addy none of them see my home page but LCN domain page (were i bought the name) I however get the page every time?

2) having reworked the index page and published how do i update the old index file to be my default page?

3) also find cp very confusing and want to sell thing on my site and was told there was a progam in cp to add a basket and checkout etc?

many thanks in advance!
deano

1) The web site looks fine to me.

2) The old index page would have been overwritten when you published the new one, if you want to go back to the way it was before you will have to edit the page again and publish.

3) We suggest using paypal for a shopping cart.

The set up of carts etc in in t Cplanel, fantastico

What you need to do is all in there

sry for type-o's I mean is in

Originally Posted by Sarah

1) The web site looks fine to me.

2) The old index page would have been overwritten when you published the new one, if you want to go back to the way it was before you will have to edit the page again and publish.

3) We suggest using paypal for a shopping cart.

Thanks sarah,

have checked with someone elses pc and had no problems!

pressing f5 updated new page

how do i add items to a shopping basket type page will paypal have all that info?

i to create a form to recieve name , email and comments box how do i get that to submit automaticly when the submit button is pressed as at the mo it opens another window to write an email

thanks again
dean0

Originally Posted by Maddog

sry for type-o's I mean is in

cheers maddog will have a play and see if i can work it out. i'm having fun if nothing else and learning through my mistakes.

its great to have this forum though!

Originally Posted by dean023

cheers maddog will have a play and see if i can work it out. i'm having fun if nothing else and learning through my mistakes.

its great to have this forum though!

which of the 3 cart programs would people reccommend

cube
os
or zen?

Just copy the script
Place this code in 'Beginnig of body':

<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "your email address";
$mailsubj = "Email";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>


should then send as auto email

This was made by the BV Team, alot of use are using this system...thats why they rock!!

or use this example script that processes your form succesfully using a generic PHP script.

Instructions:
Change the form properties (in BlueVoda) to:
Action: FEEDBACK.PHP
Method: POST
EncodingType:
(remove the text/plain, so the field becomes empty)

Now create a new file using Notepad and call it: FEEDBACK.PHP
Enter the following code into the file:


Code:
&lt;HTML>
&lt;HEAD>
&lt;TITLE>Thank you for your feedback&lt;/TITLE>
&lt;/HEAD>
&lt;BODY>
&lt;H2>Thank you for your feedback!&lt;/H2>
&lt;?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "feedback@yourdomain.com";
$mailsubj = "Feedback form";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>
&lt;/BODY>
&lt;/HEAD>

Upload this file to your domain.

full detail

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/sho...t=feedback+php

when you say 'begining of body' what / where do you mean? sorry if this a stupid question! i have no knowledge of the language below (which is why this is so good )

I have uploaded the feedback.php file but when i fill in the form on my techincal page is says page not found. do i need to move the file anywhere?

sorry for asking these questions.

Originally Posted by Maddog

Just copy the script
Place this code in 'Beginnig of body':

<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "your email address";
$mailsubj = "Email";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>


should then send as auto email

i move the feedback.php file (i used lowercase for both does this matter ) to the public_html file and now when you click submit it opens a window with all the contents of feedback.php


www.electricalwholesaler.org.uk/technical.html

Originally Posted by dean023

i move the feedback.php file (i used lowercase for both does this matter ) to the public_html file and now when you click submit it opens a window with all the contents of feedback.php


www.electricalwholesaler.org.uk/technical.html

found 'begining of body' in page html but can't see to get it to do anything different than above :(

Hi dean,

use one or the other, ie. either in the head or as php, I think the php file is better(just a personel thing). you do then need to up-load into your public folder the php file.

Then change action point on your form to feedback.php

Originally Posted by Maddog

Hi dean,

use one or the other, ie. either in the head or as php, I think the php file is better(just a personel thing). you do then need to up-load into your public folder the php file.

Then change action point on your form to feedback.php

cheers maddog I was ready to give in! but got it sorted, i was doing it right all along. problem was in the script had &%; or something, instead of <.

I set it up to go to aol email and wasn't recieving email after being submitted but the nice sarah told me it was going into my spam folder and working all the time, once changed to my web site email it works fine - provide you've only got 2 boxes of info. how do you increase the amount of info sent in a email any clues?

now i'm gonna try adding a cart but don't have much confidence! i dare say i'll be on here very shortly ! lol

cheers anyway.
Deano

piece of cake;)

Originally Posted by VodaHost

piece of cake;)

give me a slice then!

installed os commerce which was quite easy once i found the link!! doh

however now the cart is installed my home page doesn't load instaed it gives an index of and lists all the files as gifs etc

any ideas what not right?

You have named your pages incorrectly. We have found one or
more errors. You must name your pages correctly in order for
them to be visible on the internet.

Please visit the below link to learn more.

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/saving-naming-previewing-publishing/66-a.html

Originally Posted by VodaHost

You have named your pages incorrectly. We have found one or
more errors. You must name your pages correctly in order for
them to be visible on the internet.

Please visit the below link to learn more.

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/showthread.php?t=66

firstly thank you for your help.

1) my web site was working fine before os installation
2) index.html now has some numbers after it
3) what are these numbers? if i delete them what effect will it have on os as i presume this has renamed the file in the installation process.

you have probably installed os commerce into your main directory instead of a sub directory and has overwritten your web page. Basically you've screwed up mate. The only solution I can see is to reset your account from scratch, if you would like to do this please open a new support ticket and we will do this for you.

Sarah :)

Originally Posted by Sarah

you have probably installed os commerce into your main directory instead of a sub directory and has overwritten your web page. Basically you've screwed up mate. The only solution I can see is to reset your account from scratch, if you would like to do this please open a new support ticket and we will do this for you.

Sarah :)

just to let you know, whilst i am new to all this and very clueless, i didn't screw up as you put it, i installed in sub directory 'shop' not the main directory, and i solved the problem by uninstalling, republishing index page, and install os commerce again in 'shop' sub directory and has worked properly and this time all is fine.

Sorry about that, but 98% of all script installations problem are down to human error.
Forgive Sarahs bluntness, she is from Tazmania;)

Originally Posted by VodaHost

Sorry about that, but 98% of all script installations problem are down to human error.
Forgive Sarahs bluntness, she is from Tazmania;)

she's forgiven as she has helped on other matters and 98% of the time will be my errors!

Just can't get the new account bit working, when i click on continue for a new customer it takes me to my cPanel login !? any ideas or is this something you don't cover

cheers
dean0