X-Cart:Static Pages - Revision history

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 # Click the '''Update''' button. The page titles are reordered. You should see a confirmation message.
-<div id="UsingWithSmarty"></div>
+<div id="ParseSmartyTags"></div>
 '''Using Smarty with embedded static pages'''

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 Alternatively, you can adjust the option '<u>Parse Smarty tags in the content of embedded static pages</u>' on the '<u>General settings/General options</u>' page ('Miscellaneous' section). That is exactly the same option which appears in two places.
-For more information on Smarty, see http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/.
+For more information on Smarty, see http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/ (4.7.0 and later) http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/ (4.6.6 and earlier).
 ==Creating Versions of a Static Page for Different Languages==

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	# Click the '''Update''' button. The page titles are reordered. You should see a confirmation message.		# Click the '''Update''' button. The page titles are reordered. You should see a confirmation message.

		+	<div id="UsingWithSmarty"></div>
	'''Using Smarty with embedded static pages'''		'''Using Smarty with embedded static pages'''

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 * Privacy statement (<xcart_dir>/skin/common_files/pages/en/privacy_statement.html)
 * Publicity (<xcart_dir>/skin/common_files/pages/en/publicity.html)
-(By default, links to these pages are included into the '<u>Help</u>' menu box in your store's Customer area.)
+(By default, links to the above named embedded pages are included into the '<u>Help</u>' menu box in your store's Customer area.)
 On a fresh X-Cart install, the above pages contain dummy text. Before going live with your store, you should edit the contents of the said pages so they provide meaningful content for your customers. If you do not want to use these pages, remove or disable them (See [[X-Cart:Static_Pages#Managing_Static_Pages|Managing Static Pages]] for more info).

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 The file <u>include/func/func.pages.php</u> defines aliases for your store's default embedded pages:
 <pre>
-    $page_aliases = array(
+$page_aliases = array(
-        'faq' => 'faq',
+'faq' => 'faq',
-        'about' => 'about_our_site',
+'about' => 'about_our_site',
-        'business' => 'privacy_statement',
+'business' => 'privacy_statement',
-        'conditions' => 'terms',
+'conditions' => 'terms',
-        'publicity' => 'publicity',
+'publicity' => 'publicity',
-    );
+);
 </pre>
-As a result, the pages can be accessed at the following aliases:
+As a result, the pages can be accessed at the following aliases:<br />
-http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=about_our_site
+* About our site: httр://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=about<br />
-http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=faq
+* FAQ: httр://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=faq<br />
-http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=conditions
+* Terms & Conditions: httр://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=conditions<br />
-http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=privacy_statement
+* Privacy statement: httр://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=business<br />
-http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=publicity
+* Publicity: httр://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=publicity<br />
 ==Adding Static Pages==

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	On a fresh X-Cart install, the above pages contain dummy text. Before going live with your store, you should edit the contents of the said pages so they provide meaningful content for your customers. If you do not want to use these pages, remove or disable them (See [[X-Cart:Static_Pages#Managing_Static_Pages\|Managing Static Pages]] for more info).		On a fresh X-Cart install, the above pages contain dummy text. Before going live with your store, you should edit the contents of the said pages so they provide meaningful content for your customers. If you do not want to use these pages, remove or disable them (See [[X-Cart:Static_Pages#Managing_Static_Pages\|Managing Static Pages]] for more info).
		+
		+	The file <u>include/func/func.pages.php</u> defines aliases for your store's default embedded pages:
		+	<pre>
		+	$page_aliases = array(
		+	'faq' => 'faq',
		+	'about' => 'about_our_site',
		+	'business' => 'privacy_statement',
		+	'conditions' => 'terms',
		+	'publicity' => 'publicity',
		+	);
		+	</pre>
		+	As a result, the pages can be accessed at the following aliases:
		+	http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=about_our_site
		+	http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=faq
		+	http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=conditions
		+	http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=privacy_statement
		+	http://<YOUR_XCART_STORE>/pages.php?alias=publicity

	==Adding Static Pages==		==Adding Static Pages==

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 ==Overview==
-You can add static pages to your store to include additional information which does not fit into the standard X-Cart's page set. X-Cart allows you to create static pages of two types:
+The customer-facing area of your store's website will consist primarily of product, category and manufacturer pages. However, you may feel the need to add some more information that does not fit into pages of the said types; for example, you may want to add your store's Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and the like. X-Cart allows you to add pages to your website where you can place any content that you feel is needed. Such pages in X-Cart are called ''static pages''. X-Cart supports two types of static pages:
 * Embedded
-* Root
+* Root level
 Root level pages are fully independent HTML files. They exist in X-Cart root (the directory where your X-Cart store is installed), hence the name. Root pages do not depend on the rest of X-Cart pages, so they must be full HTML-files (must include tags like <HTML>...</HTML>).
-Embedded pages are pages that are placed inside standard X-Cart pages. Their look depends on the design of your store in general, as you create only the page content. The content of embedded pages is displayed in your store's Information column (corresponds to the widest column in any X-Cart's standard template scheme). Links to embedded pages appear in the '<u>Help</u>' menu box. Embedded pages do not use tags like <HTML>, <HEAD>, <BODY>.
+Embedded pages are pages that are placed inside standard X-Cart pages. Their appearance depends on the design of your store in general, as you create only the page content. The content of embedded pages is displayed in your store's Information column (the widest column in any X-Cart's standard template scheme). Embedded pages do not use tags like <HTML>, <HEAD>, <BODY>.
 Root level pages are stored in the X-Cart root directory, embedded pages - in the subdirectories of the directory <u>skin/common_files/pages</u> named after the respective languages (for example, pages for the English language are stored in the directory <u>skin/common_files/pages/en</u>, pages for the German language - in the directory <u>skin/common_files/pages/de</u>, etc.)
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 X-Cart comes with the following root level static pages out of the box:
-* message.html
+* message (<xcart_dir>/message.html)
-* permission_denied.html
+* permission_denied (<xcart_dir>/permission_denied.html)
-* shop_closed.html
+* shop_closed (<xcart_dir>/shop_closed.html)
-It also has a few pre-created embedded pages (faq, privacy statement, publicity, terms). You can edit these pages so they provide content meaningful to your customers or remove/disable them.
+It also has a few pre-created embedded pages:
 ==Adding Static Pages==

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 '''Finding all static pages in a specific language'''
-The '<u>Static pages</u>' form can be used to output a list of static pages for a specific language. This function is especially important if you create and edit your store's static pages using an external HTML editor: to manage externally created pages from within your store's Admin area, you need to get them listed in the '<u>Static pages</u>' form. The same holds true for the pre-configured root-level pages that come with X-Cart (message.html, permission_denied.html and shop_closed.html): the said pages do not appear on the static pages list until you get X-Cart to find all the existing static pages for the English language.
+The '<u>Static pages</u>' form can be used to output a list of static pages for a specific language. This function is especially important if you created or edited your store's static pages using an external HTML editor: to manage externally created pages from within your store's Admin area, you need to get them listed in the '<u>Static pages</u>' form. The same holds true for the pre-configured root-level pages that come with X-Cart (message.html, permission_denied.html and shop_closed.html): the said pages do not appear on the static pages list until you get X-Cart to find all the existing static pages for the English language.
 To get the 'Static pages' form to display all your store's static pages in a specific language:
+# ''If your store is based on X-Cart 4.5.0 or later'': Make sure that any custom HTML pages in your store use the UTF-8 charset. Failure to use UTF-8 may later cause problems displaying such pages: in your store's front end some characters in such pages may appear as diamonds with question marks (the Unicode replacement character), whereas in your store's Admin area such pages will not be displayed at all (so you will not be able to view or edit them, which rather defeats the purpose of displaying the list of static pages in Admin).
-# Select the desired language as current.
+# In Admin area, open the 'Static pages' form and select the desired language as current.
 # Click the '''Find pages''' button. The '<u>Static pages</u>' form opens up a list of all the root-level static pages it finds in the directory <u>/xcart</u> and all the embedded pages it finds in the directory <u>/xcart/skin/common_files/pages/<current_language></u> (where <current_language> is a two-letter code of the language currently selected in the language selector).

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 {{XC 4.0}}
-{{Note1| <b>Note</b>: In versions prior to 4.4.x, embedded pages are stored in the corresponding subdirectories of the directory <u>skin1/pages</u> named after the respective languages (for example, pages for the English language are stored in the directory <u>skin1/pages/US</u>, pages for the German language - in the directory <u>skin1/pages/DE</u>, etc.).}}
+{{Note1| <b>Note</b>: In versions prior to 4.4.x, embedded pages are stored in the corresponding subdirectories of the directory <u>skin1/pages</u> named after the respective languages (for example, pages for the English language are stored in the directory <u>skin1/pages/US</u>, pages for the German language - in the directory <u>skin1/pages/DE</u>, etc.)}}
 X-Cart comes with the following root level static pages out of the box:

X-Cart:Static Pages - Revision history

Aim at 09:26, 21 April 2015

Aim: For more information on Smarty, see http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/ (4.7.0 and later) http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/ (4.6.6 and earlier).

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