SalesCart-X Product Pages in FrontPage

If you are using Microsoft FrontPage as your web design tool, follow this section. If you have a different design tool, skip to the next section.

Editing PHP files in FrontPage

If your php files open with Text Editor, you will need to configure FrontPage to open php pages using FrontPage as the editor. You can easily do this by performing the following steps:

a. From FrontPage, go to Tools>>Options.

b. Click on the Configure Editors tab.

c. If php appears under the column labeled Type, highlight php, and click on Modify.

d. In the Command field type in frontpg.exe. In the Editor Name field you can enter FrontPage if you like.

e. Click OK.

f. If php doesn't appear under the column labeled Type, click on Add.

g. In the File type field, type php.

h. Enter FrontPage in the Editor name field.

i. In the Command field type in frontpg.exe.

j. Click OK.

This procedure will also allow you to save and rename htm files as php files.

Viewing the Product Link in FrontPage

If you have used early versions of SalesCart, the general property dialog will be familiar to you. It controls and defines the general properties for an item to be ordered by your customer. Most of the items on the general property dialog are self-explanatory.

The SalesCart Product Link Properties dialog box appears, as shown below.

A SalesCart product page displays products, and is where shoppers add items to their carts. The following procedure will edit the existing product page created automatically by SalesCart, but it also applies to all SalesCart product pages that you create.

Your first “demo” SalesCart Product Page is already built for you by the SalesCart Web Wizard. It includes an example which must be deleted before you begin to actually use the page. To edit the existing SalesCart Product Page:

1. In FrontPage>>Folders, open the /mall folder.
2. Double-click on ProductPage.htm.
3. Highlight the existing product link and press delete.
4. Place the cursor where you would like to place the new product link
5. Next, from the FrontPage menu: SalesCart>>Add Product Link>>Add [SalesCart-X]Product Link.



6. Click OK.

Note: If you use an Include in your Product Page, you will need to save the Product Page with a .php extension before publishing up. See the section titled "Opening, Editing and Renaming php Files". For more information on building Include pages, see the section titled, "Building a Product Page With an Include". If no Include is used, leave as an htm file.

Note: If you insert the product link inside of a form (denoted in a FrontPage^® with dotted lines), SalesCart "may" not work properly. Information passed on to the checkout pages will be associated with a form within a form. This may be useful in advanced cases but not normally. You "MUST" delete the entire "pretend" product link on the ProductPage.htm to prevent this mistake.

You can create new SalesCart product pages in FrontPage by opening: File>>New>>Page >> [SalesCart] Product Page.