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kentara
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Posted - March 14 2007 :  13:00:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have been trying to find a way to have a different shoppage_header.htm for the front page of the store only (i.e. the top level display on shopdisplaycategories.asp). This is purely so that the front page can have a different look and feel or added textual content from the secondary pages (i.e. subcategories and lower).

Can anybody tell me how to do this? I am using version 5.50.

Thanks so much!

SeoDesigns
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USA
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Posted - March 14 2007 :  21:21:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I also need to have a different "home page" (for the rest of the site at www.santabarbarawine.com than the front page of the store. Although I've been a programmer for 30 years, I am new to VP-ASP and just purchased 6.5. I'm assuming from what I read about the product that there is a way to do this. In terms of time, I would really appreciate the code for this rather than my re-inventing the wheel to write straight ASP without input from those who are already VPASP-pros. Thanks! I'll be happy to share down the line when I can be of assistance. Thanks, Mark: mark - pavlich 'at' comcast DOT net.

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Originally posted by kentara

I have been trying to find a way to have a different shoppage_header.htm for the front page of the store only (i.e. the top level display on shopdisplaycategories.asp). This is purely so that the front page can have a different look and feel or added textual content from the secondary pages (i.e. subcategories and lower).

Can anybody tell me how to do this? I am using version 5.50.

Thanks so much!


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Kidd
VP-CART Super User

Australia
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Posted - March 14 2007 :  23:27:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Kentara, idont have a copy of v5.50 but on your default.asp can you find something like this

<%shoppageheader%>

if you want, just delete that line, and create your own header on default.asp using normal html code.
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jayceew
VP-CART New User

USA
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Posted - March 15 2007 :  16:01:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
this is how to do it In version 6.X, it may work in 5.5 ?

in shopheaders.asp, there is a procedure (sub) called ShopPageHeader. Copy the entire function (to the first place you see 'end sub' and then paste it below. Call this sub 'ShopPageHeader_Default', or whatever you want to call it. Then edit the line in the newly pasted sub that says

%>
<!-- #include file="shoppage_header.htm" -->
<%

change this to the template file you want to use.

Finally, in your default.asp, change the the line
<%shopPageHeader%>

to the name of the sub you just created. Repeat the process for the trailer templates if you like as well.

Then just modify shoppage_header.htm to make it look the way you want and save it as
ShopPageHeader_Default.htm, or whatever you want to call it.


Special Thanks to - craig simons who helped me with this on January 16 2006 11:55:14
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kentara
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Posted - March 16 2007 :  12:07:56  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks, all! I'm going to give these suggestions a try.

I'm new to ASP and shopping carts/VP-ASP, but I managed a temporary work-around that displays a blurb of text on the top-level shopdisplaycategories.asp page. I'm just not sure it's a terribly clean way to do things.

I added a "<!--#include file="frontpagetext.asp"-->" statement to shoppage_header.htm, then in frontpagetext.asp, put this:
<%
if Session("currenturl")="shopdisplaycategories.asp" then
if highercategoryid="0" then
response.write "Front page text"
end if
end if
%>

It seems to display my front page text only on the top level, without breaking subcategory pages. But again, it doesn't seem very clean to me!
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