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Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Professional Edition

By : David Mercer
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Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Professional Edition

By: David Mercer

Overview of this book

<p>The book can be read from front to back, but each chapter is self contained so the reader can skip chapters to read those that they are interested in. Each chapter will move from basic to advanced where applicable and also relate what the administrator (reader) is doing to how this affects what the client sees on the site.</p> <p>So, for example, the customization chapter will start off with a discussion on the concept of design and how to relate this to your business. Once the reader has a clear idea of what they need to do, we look at some really simple changes such as modifying the site's language, before moving to some advanced modifications which may involve some PHP programming. At the same time the discussion will demonstrate how the changes made affect the site.</p> <p>Throughout the book, much consideration is given to the "right" way to doing things. Readers will have the great advantage that they begin, from the very start, doing things properly. This will save them a lot of time and effort in the years to come as they build on and modify their site. Utilizing best practices and sound methodologies is a great asset for beginners and experienced users alike.</p> <p>At all times, the coverage given in this book pays homage to the fact that, ultimately, the reader has a business goal in mind. To this end, the material never gets bogged down in technical issues or long discourses, but rather focuses on what is practically important for the online business and then moves on. To complement this, there are plenty of suggestions and hints as to how and where to look for further information.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Professional Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Foreword
Introduction
Index

Language Definitions


Obviously, there are quite a lot of modifications that need to be made to the default language in osCommerce. You may or may not want to change the headings of boxes, error messages, page text, and pretty much anything else that involves language on the site. In order to do this you need to edit the language of the various files presented in the Define Language section under Tools in the administration section. Navigating to this will bring up a screen with a host of different files available for editing (note that you can also do this through the File Manager section, but this will expose all the code in the file to you, which may well make it harder to do a simple language edit):

You can choose which language you want to work on by selecting it from the drop-down list at the top right of the screen. Please note that we will only deal with English in this book, since all the principles that apply to one language apply to any language—as well as this, Contechst Books...