Adding a new document

[peterp]

Hi All,

      I have created  a new document in admin>file manager>documents and what I want to do is have this new document appear in the home page which I realize I can do by checking the home page radio button but unfortunately this then removes the original home page document. Is there a way  that I can have 2 home page documents. I have moved the original home page to display above the logo on the Mican template but obviously when I check the home page radio button in the documents of the new document that I have created this then appears above the logo. So would it possible to have the original homepage document to appear above the logo and then the new document that we have created appear in the original position on the home page at the same time

Hope somebody can help.

Best Regards,

Peterp

[bsmither]

You can create a snippet using the hook named class.cubecart.display_homepage, and for the PHP code, use a slightly modified version of the code that gets the Homepage document:

<?php
if (($home = $this->getDocument(99)) !== false) {
  $GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('DOCUMENT_ALT', array(
    'title'  => $home['doc_name'],
    'content' => $home['doc_content'],
    'hide_title' => $home['hide_title']
  ));
}

You will need to know the the 'doc_id' of the alternate homepage document (replace 99), and in the Mican skin:

Replace:
{if isset($DOCUMENT)}
<div id="announcement">
  <h1>{$DOCUMENT.title}</h1>
  {$DOCUMENT.content}
</div>
{/if}

With:
{if isset($DOCUMENT_ALT)}
<div id="announcement">
  <h1>{$DOCUMENT_ALT.title}</h1>
  {$DOCUMENT_ALT.content}
</div>
{/if}

 

[peterp]

Hi Brian,

             I have tried this code and on one of the locally hosted version of the cubecart when I try to save the snippet all I get is a blank screen and it doesn't go back to the admin screen. I decided to try it on another machine which is using the same cubecart version and it all worked perfectly. what could be the cause of the blank screen happening when i try to save the snippet.

Hope you can Help,

Peterp

[bsmither]

Let's see if the error_log has any clues.

https://forums.cubecart.com/topic/51550-how-to-create-the-error-log/

 

[peterp]

Hi Brian,

No error log has been created. I have checked the version of PHP is 7.3

Where now

Best Regards,

Peterp

[bsmither]

Do you have your web server (as opposed to PHP) configured to write errors to a web server error log?

[peterp]

Hi Brian,

Thankyou for helping me with this issue. I'm currently using xampp (as localhost) so I'm not really sure how to configure a web server to write error log sorry for my lack of knowledge.

If you can instruct me as to what I have to do I'm sure I can make it happen

Best Regards,

Peterp

[peterp]

hi Brian,

I think I have fixed it. I uninstalled xampp and then reinstalled it and then did all of the mods again and it seems to have worked.

Thanks again for all of your help I appreciate it immensely.

Best Regards,

Peterp

[bsmither]

According to this site:

https://www.atechtown.com/xampp-control-panel/

this is what you would use to view the various XAMPP log files.