Can't get Most Wanted to work

[mrsike]

Afraid I have to showcase my ignorance again. I'm trying to get a Most Wanted page--I've seen a few from other member sites, and I really like that. I've saved my historytemplate.php file and renamed it mostwanted.php. I apparently can't follow instructions, because here's what I get - messed up mostwanted page. I haven't changed the text or anything yet to my own--just trying to get it to work first--obviously to no avail.

Thanks so much! :)

[thewag]

I believe the history templates are ment to be used from a sub-directory (folder). So this should be an easy fix. Simply:

create a new folder (since I'm unimanigative, call it NewDir)

put your mostwanted.php in it

try and call if from http://ikenouyehistory.org/NewDir/mostwanted.php

if this works, you'd call it from your index page as <a href="NewDir/mostwanted.php">Most Wanted</a>

Hope this helps,

Ben

[Rush]

I think its a little confused on were to find the genlib.php, begin.php, etc., files.

If you have your mostwanted.php file in a subdirectory (outside of where all your core TNG files are at) that could be causing the problem.

If all your TNG files are installed here in this directory:

/home/ikenouye/public_html/ikenouyehistory/

there's something really screwy.

If all your TNG files are installed here:

/home/ikenouye/public_html/

just make sure that is where you mostwanted.php file is at.

HTH

Rush

[Ken Roy]

Taryn,

You might try changing the following statement at the beginning of your mostwanted.php created from the historytemplate.php

from

include( "../begin.php");

if( !$cms[support] )

$cms[tngpath] = "../";

to

include( "begin.php");
if( !$cms[support] )
    $cms[tngpath] = "/";

so that it knows where to find the TNG php files (begin and all other files)

Good luck,

Ken

[mrsike]

Hey--wonderful! Almost there! Now, most of my topmenu.html is working on the mostwanted.php page, except the flash logo. That is located in the header.js file, which I've put ../ in front of, like everything else, but it's not showing on the mostwanted page. Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

[thewag]

Which of the many options above did you use?

[mrsike]

Hi Ben,

I put my mostwanted.php in a sub-directory--your suggestion seemed to be the only way I could get it to work. I left this statment

from
include( "../begin.php");
if( !$cms[support] )
$cms[tngpath] = "../";

in mostwanted.php in place and changed the relative links to absolute in my meta, topmenu and footer.html files. That flash logo is located in my topmenu in the header.js file. I can't figure out why it's showing on all my other pages and not this one. Here's the link to my new Most Wanted page.

Thanks so much! :)

[thewag]

in mostwanted.php in place and changed the relative links to absolute in my meta, topmenu and footer.html files. That flash logo is located in my topmenu in the header.js file. I can't figure out why it's showing on all my other pages and not this one. Here's the link to my new Most Wanted page.

In your header.js script you have a line that reads:

document.write('<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="logo.swf">');

I think that if you replace it with

document.write('<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="/logo.swf">');

it should work. Darn relative links can bea pain in the ..........

Hope it works for ya. BTW, how'd you design all the cool graphics. I can code, but can design worth a flip.

Ben

[mrsike]

Boy, am I a moron. I forgot to upload the flash.txt to the same subfolder my mostwanted.php is in! DOH!

The graphics? The template layout I got from AllWebCo Design, and the split tree on the home page and the one on the contact page--I just used a single graphic, then cut it in half and made two individual pics out of it.

Thanks for all your help! I do feel like I wasted your time with this one--sorry about that! :(

[thewag]

I do feel like I wasted your time with this one--sorry about that!

ust paying forward for all the help I've gootten. And this was easy (been there before). Thanks for the links, I'll look into them.

Ben