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seagust -> .asp pages include lines (6/2/2005 6:52:45)
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Hi
I am new to this forum and wondered if anyone could solve a mystery for me please? I realise you may not have any past experience with this particular shopping cart but wondered if it was more to do with frontpage or the extensions on the server?
If it is anywhere on this forum and I have missed it please accept my apologies.
Some weeks ago I purchased an ecommercetemplate shopping cart. I have the frontpage, generic, asp version. I am using frontpage 2003. I published the site and connected the database etc. I then started adding the categories and products etc. When trying to look at the products and categories I had created, to see what design issues needed adjusting I couldn't see any of the items.
After lots of going backwards and forwards with ecommercetemplates they published the asp pages for me and all was ok? As I need to often republish these pages after making changes it was necessary to try to find out what was going on for me to be able to keep publishing over what they had done for me. I found that when I looked at the .asp pages in the remote view within frontpage, the 5 include code lines which I have to place in the body of the page do not, for some strange reasons, publish when I publish them.
I place the include lines where they have to go, I publish, but the place where I have placed them is blank when I view them in the remote view?? However, they did publish and could be viewed by me in remote view within frontpage when ecommercetemplates published them for me.
As I say, I couldn't just leave it at that as I have to publish over from time to time.
I got in touch with my host who couldn't get to the bottom of it. Because my old computer was very slow and kept hanging etc I have bought a new computer. I have a new version of windows xp professional and have installed a different copy of frontpage 2003.
I have redone much of the site. I decided to change hosts to one which appears to have experience of ecommerce templates.
I have just published 'the bones' of the site to see if all is ok, and lo and behold, the same problem. If you look at the code of the cart.asp and categories.asp etc you cannot see the 5 include lines? It is like they magically disappear during the publishing process! This is even more of a mystery as every bit of software and my host is now different to when I last had the problem?
I have contacted the new host and haven't heard as yet so thought a forum specifically for frontpage may be able to help? This is my last attempt to unravel the problem before having to admit defeat and give up on this shopping cart.
I don't understand it at all.
It's as though I am completely missing something.
I keep thinking I'm not doing some very little thing. I have used frontpage to design and publish many sites withouth shopping carts and without problems. The mystery is that it doesn't seem as if anybody else has ever had the same problem and I'm sure many people have bought this same template and use it with frontpage.
The 5 include lines I have to paste into the body of the asp pages are below. The last word in line 5 gets changed according to the specific page e.g. inccart.asp and incsearch.asp etc. I cannot think it is do with the code as ecommercetemplates publish the same thing ok.
<!--#include file="vsadmin/db_conn_open.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/includes.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/inccategories.asp"-->
If you have any idea what could be causing this I would be very, very, grateful. I have wasted about 3 weeks so far trying to find the answers. I look forward to hearing from you before they 'cart me off' literally. Thanks very much in advance. Denise
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