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  • coffeegourmet
    Second Lieutenant

    • Feb 2007
    • 124

    Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

    Naval,

    I am home from work now, I went and used an old template from my coffee site, and used the old navigation bar from that, I put the menu bar on the left as the php html, named it test. php, and published it. I than waited a few minutes, and checked http://www.ccwenterprises.biz/test.php and guess what comes up on the left hand side, the navigation, so I know it works now! I don't know why it did not work with the original page but I should be okay now! If I need help I know I can always shout out to you guys here at the forum!
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    • matrixxxxxx1
      Captain

      • Apr 2006
      • 221

      Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

      Originally posted by Bethers

      Blue ftp doesn't show all pages - go into your control panel to delete out ALL http pages.

      Hey Beth

      Where do u find the http pages please?
      http://www.atexflooring.ca
      http://www.newfloor.ca

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      • navaldesign
        General & Forum Moderator

        • Oct 2005
        • 12080

        Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

        When you connect with FTP to your site, you will see your site content. There should be two versions of each page, the new one, which has a .php extension, and the old one which has a .html extension. If the working version is the .php. you can delete the .html

        Attention: if you had a contact form, and had named both the form page and the action script with the same name (as contact.html for the form and contact.php for the script) , then you should NOT delete the html version of your form, and you should NOT convert it to php, there would be some extra work there to do.
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        • matrixxxxxx1
          Captain

          • Apr 2006
          • 221

          Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

          Originally posted by navaldesign
          When you connect with FTP to your site, you will see your site content. There should be two versions of each page, the new one, which has a .php extension, and the old one which has a .html extension. If the working version is the .php. you can delete the .html

          Attention: if you had a contact form, and had named both the form page and the action script with the same name (as contact.html for the form and contact.php for the script) , then you should NOT delete the html version of your form, and you should NOT convert it to php, there would be some extra work there to do.
          Hi navaldesign

          That's the weird part. Most of my pages are not shown in blueftp. Few pages are shown in both html and php but the rest are a mystery.


          Mike
          http://www.atexflooring.ca
          http://www.newfloor.ca

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          • navaldesign
            General & Forum Moderator

            • Oct 2005
            • 12080

            Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

            Blue FTP is limited as to the number of files it displayes. Use File manager .
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            • matrixxxxxx1
              Captain

              • Apr 2006
              • 221

              Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

              Originally posted by navaldesign
              Blue FTP is limited as to the number of files it displayes. Use File manager .

              Thnx navaldesign. Problem solved
              http://www.atexflooring.ca
              http://www.newfloor.ca

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              • Vasili
                Moderator

                • Mar 2006
                • 14683

                Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

                Originally posted by Andy128
                Naval- You are a life saver!!!!!! Thanks very much for your tutorial! I have a site (www.123gpp.com) that I currently have over 130 pages and it is expected to grow to over 300+. This method will be fantastic to create a site that can be eaisly managed. I very much wanted to be able to adapt the site content for Hoildays and celebrations and such but could not having to change so many pages. I can't wait to get started. I have been researching Beths hatred for I-Frames (which is well founded I have found out) as far SE's was concerned. This seems like a perfect solution.
                I'd like to add an "aside" to this very highly valued thread in VodaTalk regarding the use of iFrames vs. CSS/php link styles, and how the quandry I faced was addressed.

                Since I have a giant "affiliate-based" eCommerce site (www.MyChoiceMall.com) that truly is full of "one-way" outbound links and therefore not SE-friendly in any respect, and I needed a way to provide visitors with an easily navigable means to "click to" the more than 500 stores within a likewise easy-to-manage system on my end, I needed to implement more than one style of tool.

                Since I find re-designing the BV site itself into a pure php-based site too overwhelming of a task (since it is constantly being updated and changed), I 'defaulted' by using the globally manageable iFrame menu system that included 2 Go Menus: one that listed "Categories" pages that showed stores grouped accordingly; and one "QuickLink to Stores" so visitors could jump to stores listed by name alone.
                >> Since iFrames are not "SE-friendly" and would not contribute to any "rank" or "relevance" I am able to maintain the convenience of the 2 Go Menus (and the global update ability) for visitors, but needed to add the entire list of "Category" Pages at the bottom of each page, each of which was linked to that page as in the Go Menu in the iFrame. Thus, the duplication of this important "element" in a SE-friendly format. And....it adds an aide to replace what some browsers can't see (and the alt tag instructs using this listing as an alternative) as well as doubles as a means for visually challenged visitors.

                This way, I was able to leverage the "interior link" aspect to counter-balance the presence of the many "one-way outbound links" the pages contained (each "Category" page listed individual stores with their affiliate banner links). Adding to this corrected perspective is the development of relevant Content on each of these pages, in the form of specific key words serving as a mini-index of the Category each page serves and short, concise introductions of each "store." Again, since the pages and store lineup is constantly changing, I find this task a lot easier sticking to a pure BV-based site, rather than going the dynamic php or true CSS way...

                This is what I did to retain the functionality this type of site required (Go Menus, and the global update aspect an iFrame provided) and still keep within the SEO guidelines of relevant Content, balance of interior links, effectually "halving" my outbound link metric, and being able to provide a "rankable" navigation metric to each page.

                I will be looking forward to building a php-based site in the future, for it will provide the dynamics that the newer "Perfect Page Model" algorithym is based on (originally hinting at CSS as the 'best-of-breed'), but I wanted to simply give a glimpse at how a "problem" was solved without loss of design, function, SEO metric, or attractiveness to a site.


                Just adding "my three cents"......(we all know I can't keep it to two! LOLOL)
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                • coffeegourmet
                  Second Lieutenant

                  • Feb 2007
                  • 124

                  Something is not right with my pages

                  I just switched my domain over to Voda today. I am still waiting for the pages to go over completely as I cannot yet see it here on my computer.

                  However, somone on another forum sent me a message saying they could see it and there was problems with my menu etc. They did a view source and posted this to the forum:

                  <DIV style="position:absolute;left:169px;top:10px;width :690px;height:101px;z-index:21" align="left">
                  <?php
                  include ("mycoffeegourmethdr.php");
                  mycoffeegourmethdr();
                  ?>

                  </DIV>
                  <DIV style="position:absolute;left:12px;top:107px;width :150px;height:601px;z-index:22" align="left">
                  <?php
                  include ("menu.php");
                  menu();
                  ?>

                  </DIV>
                  <DIV style="position:absolute;left:862px;top:126px;widt h:150px;height:585px;z-index:23" align="left">
                  <?php
                  include ("specials.php");
                  specials();
                  ?>

                  </DIV>
                  <DIV style="position:absolute;left:173px;top:1191px;wid th:687px;height:118px;z-index:24" align="left">
                  <?php
                  include ("footer.php");
                  footer();
                  ?>

                  </DIV>



                  As ncope also said, I'm getting a PHP error on some other pages too, though the left menu shows up there, but not much else. Here's the PHP error message:


                  Code:Fatal error: Cannot redeclare menu() (previously declared in /home/kngxsdql/public_html/mycoffeegourmet/menu.php: in /home/kngxsdql/public_html/mycoffeegourmet/mycoffeegourmethdr.php on line 1
                  Any ideas on what is wrong here?
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                  • Vasili
                    Moderator

                    • Mar 2006
                    • 14683

                    Re: Something is not right with my pages

                    Originally posted by coffeegourmet
                    I just switched my domain over to Voda today. I am still waiting for the pages to go over completely as I cannot yet see it here on my computer.

                    However, somone on another forum sent me a message saying they could see it and there was problems with my menu etc. They did a view source and posted this to the forum:



                    Any ideas on what is wrong here?
                    DNS has been changed to Voda1, and your site is up.

                    The only thing wrong with your Menu is the layout....you need to align things, finish the edges (with borders or contrasting colors), and consider using a different style to better compliment your radiused shapes (try an elipitcal, or change the background shape to a rectangular?) or take the time to create your own buttons, thereby losing the white borders that glaringly show up against the background colors/shapes.

                    Don't believe everything people tell you unless you have the opportunity to see for yourself!
                    PS: Don't forget to refresh your browser to load the "new page"!


                    >> You do know that this is the wrong Forum to post this issue, right?
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                    • Bethers
                      Major General & Forum Moderator

                      • Feb 2006
                      • 5224

                      Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

                      He had made some critical errors in his coding. I've been having him fix them - and now have him working on fixing lots of the loose ends (like shapes not being positioned properly, etc). But the fatal errors are over with :)

                      And it was the right forum because the errors all had to do with the php includes - which is why the pages were not showing sooner.
                      Beth
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                      • coffeegourmet
                        Second Lieutenant

                        • Feb 2007
                        • 124

                        Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

                        Thanks for the advice!

                        With Bethers help and advice, I have started changes already. I need her help because for some reason I still cannot see my own site on my computer!

                        I am working on the menu bars and the lineup of the html boxes. I am sure there are more things out there, but I won't really see them until I can see it myself!

                        The PHP was goofed up due to my own error, I didn't triple check my work... seems I pay the price and have to learn from mistakes!
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                        • navaldesign
                          General & Forum Moderator

                          • Oct 2005
                          • 12080

                          Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

                          You are probably declaring the function menu() in mycoffeegourmethdr.php
                          whilst you are also declaring it in "menu.php"
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                          • navaldesign
                            General & Forum Moderator

                            • Oct 2005
                            • 12080

                            Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

                            Ooops! sorry, i was posting while you did.
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                            • coffeegourmet
                              Second Lieutenant

                              • Feb 2007
                              • 124

                              Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

                              No problem Naval, I am so green to this voda stuff I need allllll the help a guy can get! *LOL*
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                              • coffeegourmet
                                Second Lieutenant

                                • Feb 2007
                                • 124

                                Help!!!!!

                                Okay I got the site to come up on my laptop so I have been going through to try and fix it up a bit....

                                My header came up when I first looked at it now it just shows a red X there! Every other page is coming up fine!

                                I will have to leave this till tomorrow, because I have gone through everything ,every page, all the codes are the same... Here is what I have pasted in my html box for the header on every page:
                                <?php
                                include ("mycoffeegourmethdr.php");
                                mycoffeegourmethdr();
                                ?>

                                Does that look right cause it sure does to me!
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