some post purchase questions

[bucks]

Hey all,

I recently purchased iAuto and everything is as i hoped so far.

I have a few questions though which i hope some of ye can answer.

1) Im developing a custom home page in which i want to incorporate the "quick search" function, is this easy to achieve ?

2) Which iAuto file do i edit in order to add my custom designed "header" and "footer" ?

3) Lastly, is it possible to display say the 4 most recent ads added on my home page ? ie. instead of the featured ads ? (this is not a high priority as im still not sure if i an going to incorporate this into the site yet)

[Anton]

Dear bucks,

1. If you want to change the home page of the iAuto script you need to modify main.tpl file here: system/modules/main/user/templates/*theme_name*
Quick search form can be incorporated by the code "{module name="classifieds" function="show_search_form" search_form="56"}", where "56" is the index of the quick search form in the system.

2. There (main.tpl or index.tpl) you can also edit a header and a footer for your web pages.

3. Yes, it is possible, but not included in the script functionality. It will be a customization.

[bucks]

Cheers Anton i appreciate your reply.

An other thing; the activation email that new users receive.. where do i edit this ?

Cheers.

[highnote]

bucks,
You will find the activation email text in the admin console under
Template Management / User Management / activation_email.tpl

The variables ($firstname, $lastname etc...) are sent to the template in the function sendActivationEmail() in the following file: system/modules/users/classes/registration.php

All of the .tpl template files can be edited directly using the admin console so you don't have fetch/edit/upload using ftp.

The .php files should be edited locally, backups retained and uploaded.

Incidentally,
There are two types of programs you should have to help you search and edit files on your local system:
A good code editor: I use the Freeware Editor called PSPad for Windows
Grep Utility: searches for specific sequence of characters in all files in directory structure - good for finding functions/variables
Here are the links:
http://www.pspad.com/
http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/
Also, a good ftp utility is filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

Regards,
Lou

[bucks]

Cheers Lou for your reply !

Another thing, i want to edit the "system fields" in the user registration form, for example instead of the user having to submit a "first name" and then a "last name" i just want to let them submit a "name"

In the admin panel i cant seem to edit the current system fields, can it be done via the source code and if so which one do i edit ?

Thanks for all yer help.

[flicker]

Another thing, i want to edit the "system fields" in the user registration form, for example instead of the user having to submit a "first name" and then a "last name" i just want to let them submit a "name"

In the admin panel i cant seem to edit the current system fields, can it be done via the source code and if so which one do i edit ?

Thanks for all yer help.

You cannot do it, because these fields are written in the database. So if you will change it using phpMyAdmin or other program it would crash your system.