Some Newbie Questions - Designer 3.1.5

[bgordon]

Hello Gurus...

I have a few issues that I cannot seem to find answers for in the forums... any help would be appreciated.

1) Have the site change language from user pressing a link - set the language variable to french

2) Add a border around listing images and listing thumbnails (css or php template?).

3) Change "State" label on screen to "Province" (we are Canadian eh!)

4) SEO not working... I disabled the old SEO and enabled the new one. I copied the .htaccess to the root... the pages don't work unless I disable it again.

5) Add currently logged on user to page to show the username or guest status... also let people log off?

6) Uploading FTP from Dreamweaver the { and } symbols are being replaced by %7B and %7D ... causes the template to fail until I manually edit them again on the server side... any ideas? The same thing happens to [[ and ]].

I have a few more questions but will save them for later.

Thanks

Bill Gordon

[Eric Barnes]

1) Have the site change language from user pressing a link - set the language variable to french

You can do this by adding this link:
<a href="index.php?language=french">French</a>

2) Add a border around listing images and listing thumbnails (css or php template?).

You could probably do this from the style sheet. Just add something like:

a img{
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}

3) Change "State" label on screen to "Province" (we are Canadian eh!)

That would be in language/english.php file. Just search for state.

4) SEO not working... I disabled the old SEO and enabled the new one. I copied the .htaccess to the root... the pages don't work unless I disable it again.

I think I replied through our ticket system. You need to double check your host has mod_rewrite installed.

5) Add currently logged on user to page to show the username or guest status... also let people log off?

I will have to track down the code for this but it is possible.

6) Uploading FTP from Dreamweaver the { and } symbols are being replaced by %7B and %7D ... causes the template to fail until I manually edit them again on the server side... any ideas? The same thing happens to [[ and ]].

I think you can turn off an option where dreamweaver rewrites code but I am not sure the exact setting.

[bgordon]

What is the mod rewrite... how do I do this.

[juven14]

mod rewrite is an apache setting. You'll need to contact your host if it isn't turned on.

I have a module that does the users/guests online: http://mods.auscity.com/users_online_mod.php