Originally Posted by southernlady

But I NEED a step by step tutorial how to on PHP.

Such a thing surely does not exist! Or at least there are so many possible ones, that we can never guess which one it is that you need.

That second index page (the smaller one) seems to be the starting point for all this. It includes the cart code from application.php, sets some defaults so that the other index page will be included, and then throws it all into a template, which ought to output categories/items whatever, possibly a login box and some kind of admin interface (I'm guessing blindly here).

First step would be to find the template file and modify it to match the look of the rest of your site. This can be done with copy and paste for the sake of speed.

Is this thing a proprietary piece of software, or can we see the template file? By that I mean 'templates/main_page.php'

0beron, that's why I chose osCommerce...cause it's free to use as long as you don't get rid of the copywrite. And since others here apparently know more about it that CubeCart, I figured they would be able to help walk me thru the files. Anyone can download it and use it.

I realize that my site is particular to my site but still, the files can be explained to anyone in a basic tutorial. IN ENGLISH! I know that coding is hard and it's more a matter of copy and paste but surely to goodness, somewhere, someone can explain this to me? Liz

Well, thanks to an entirely unexpected source...another forum....I found the answer to my questions. First I found out that in osCommerce, you don't need to upload all the folders. You only upload the catalog folder. You can ignore the extras folder (but no one told me that). I also found out you don't need to upload all the languages folders, if you aren't dealing in all three languages.

Then I found out that on a system with no c-panel, to see the db, what you do is locate the web folder so you can install it and to do that you have to typ in the directory you installed it into, in my case, it was in the db folder on my root directory which meant, my path to see it was: http://prioritycomputers.net/db/install/index.php Had I known this two days ago, I would not have been as upset. It's so easy to install from there. It walks you thru it. BUT I had to find out from others, NOT from here. Liz

Don't get mad at us because we can't read your mind. I was under the impression that you already got past the point of setting it up and wanted to customize it.

I know for a fact that the osCommerce install directions tell you which folders to upload and which to ignore. Also, how could we have possibly known that you put the osC files in a directory called db?

I was under the impression that you already got past the point of setting it up and wanted to customize it.

I know for a fact that the osCommerce install directions tell you which folders to upload and which to ignore.

Maybe asking questions to verify what we've actually done would help instead of just telling us to *go read the manual*. I've learned over the years, you can't be UNDER the impression that people have done anything, you have to ask. I read the manual and it was greek...what I didn't find, until pointed in the right direction, was the documentation.

I didn't expect you to know where I had installed my folder, but the guy who helped asked the question and then gave me the url based on my answer, it was that simple. Maybe this is the wrong forum for me to be a member of...I seem to be in the wrong here. But I did NOT ask you to read my mind, what I did ask for was help...what you could have done was ask more detailed questions instead of assuming I knew the answers.

We can close this topic now. Liz

The best way to find answer to your question is official cube cart suppport forums.
http://cubecart.com/site/forums/

hmc, thank you for trying but I moved on from CubeCart and osCommerce...when I couldn't get either of those to work the way I wanted, I went back to open source and now I have one, it's functional for now while I try my hand at ZenCart. You can see my current one at http://prioritycomputers.net/db1/main.php But I do appreciate your trying. Liz