Can Actinic work with Server Side Includes?
To be able to use SSI, the server must parse the HTML file, this is usually done automatically when the file type is SHTML. You can make the product section pages have a file extension of SHTML by specifying the section page file name/type when editing the section. IMPORTANT: When registered cus ...
- How can I insert my own custom navigation buttons that rollover when a customer moves their mouse over them?
To insert your own custom navigation buttons, with image rollovers, you can recycle the code from any of the existing navigation image layouts. 1.Go to 'Design | Library | Layouts'. 2.Locate the 'Navigation Icons' group and click on any layout in the list whose name ends in 'Image Navigation But ...
- How can I add my own PHP functions?
A file is included in the installation directory (C:\Program Files\Actinic v9) called 'actinic_main.php' that includes PHP functions used within Actinic. We don't recommend that you edit this file but if you want to create your own PHP functions you can create your own file called 'siteincludes ...
- Can I ship to certain countries online but allow shipping to other countries offline?
If you have 'Do not allow shipping' selected for the 'If Shipping Band not defined' option on the 'Configuration' tab of the Shipping and Handling settings then only the countries set in your 'Zones' will be available to online and offline orders. If you want to be able to take offline orders f ...
- How can I generate a random product list on my home page?
We first store the HTML of the Mini Best Seller layout from all products into an array. Then later display 4 at random. <!-- Here we fill a PHP array with snippets of HTML from all products --> <actinic:block php="true">unset($allproducts);</actinic:block> <actinic:block typ ...
- When I click on my preview pane on the Design tab it isn't loading the layout in the code window.
The interactive preview pane on the Design tab can be broken by custom code in the design. It is usually caused by javascript, for example Google ADs code. It is possible hide it from appearing in the preview with a condition. The code will then only be included in the store pages in the online ...
- How do I hide some of my code from 'Preview'
Sometimes you will have some code in your designs (e.g. an affiliate tracking scheme) that will only work online, and may actually have an adverse effect on the performance of the preview. If this is the case, it is possible hide it from appearing in the preview with a condition. The code will ...
- I've been given a SQL query to run on my database but I don't have MS Access. How can I apply it?
You can run a SQL query on the ActinicCatalog.mdb file without MS Access by doing the following: create a blank text document paste the following into the file: 'my shop database is located at: mydb = "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Actinic v9\Sites\site1\ActinicCatalog.mdb" ...
- I want to create my own navigation bar, what format should the links be?
Links should be in the following format: View Cart: <a href="http://domain/cgi-bin/ca00000x.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART"> Checkout: <a href="http://domain/cgi-bin/os00000x.pl?ACTION=Start" > Login: <a href="http://domain/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=index.html"> Contact Us: <a href= ...
- I'm changing the layout I want to use in the interface but nothing is changing on my site.
This is probably because the layout selector set in the design is 'fixed' to use a specific layout. A 'layout selector' is a variable that tells the software which layout to use for a particular area. In the 'layout code' they are depicted by being pink and underlined. Another attribute of a s ...
- Can I put a button on the MOTO form that will put the shop address into the 'Delivery Contact' fields for people collecting from the shop?
You can do this by doing the following: go to the 'Design' menu and select 'Library' on the 'Layouts' tab, expand the 'MOTO Form' group (click on the '+') double-click on the 'Standard MOTO Form' layout to edit it add the following code above the '</head>' tag: <script language="jav ...
- What is the HTML to hard-code a link to another site into a fragment?
The HTML to create a link is: <a href="http://www.domain.co.uk/pagename.html">Link Text Goes Here</a> Replace 'www.domain.co.uk/pagename.html' with the URL that the link should go to and replace 'Link Text Goes Here' with the text to display for the link. The above example would dis ...
- Can I use Flash for images on my site?
You need to insert the following code into the relevant layout: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="140" height="140" > <param name="movie" value="filename.s ...
- Stopping Actinic from Parsing Things in Square Brackets
This is a "tecchy" issue but it can be very frustrating if you don't understand what's happening. If you place the following expression within a full description: <input type="hidden" name="nlbox[1]" value="97"> Actinic will turn it into the following: <input name="p" id="p" value="12" ...
- How do I create a link straight to a product?
It is possible to take people straight to a specific product with a hyperlink of the following form: http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345&NOLOGIN=1 Where: http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with yo ...
- Can I create PHP functions?
It is possible to include PHP expressions within the layouts in Actinic. These are only executed on the desktop, i.e. you cannot create PHP functions to dynamically change things online, but they still allow you to do a range of advanced customisations on your store data. There are some example ...
- Variable Qualifiers
A 'Variable Qualifier' is a way of specifying exactly where you want data to come from, where there is more than one choice for the data source. There are three variable qualifiers: MainBrochure - used in brochure page links to insert details about the current brochure page. MainSection - used ...
- Can I use a text field instead of a drop-down box for my search properties?
Searchable properties allow you set up fields where customers can search on the values entered for the 'user-definable variables' in your store. Instructions for doing this are in the main help in 'Online Store Features | Searching On Product Properties'. By default, searchable property values a ...
- Can I display a message that counts down to free shipping?
If you have set up your store to offer free shipping for orders that are over a certain value, you can use the following script in your layouts to include a message that tells people how much more they have to spend to qualify for free shipping. <script language="javascript" type="text/javasc ...
- I want to link to my Extended Information pages from my Marketing Lists
The way to do this is to use the following code for the link from the layout you are using to lay out your best sellers/new products. <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20TRUE"><actinic:variable name="CatalogURL" /></actin ...
