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Hi

Hope i am not breaking forums rules by offering payment for help ..sorry if i am

I am stuck trying to merge cmsms with a cart template system ..i am sure its just path settings error

I am willing to pay someone to sort it for me ....thats before I smash my pc out of frustration!!

Please contact me if you can help and I will send the files

Thanks

Roy

No, it's permissible to ask for such things.

but your description is a little vague.... maybe you can provide a little more information ?

Hi

Yes I suppose my request was a bit vague ..getting frustrated with this ..been trying for 2 weeks myself.

I have attached the files from the cart to this post. They are basic tables parts ..no images or design work done yet

It looks like http://www.selfhealthbooks.com/edownloa ... e.php 

I am hoping that cmsms  will allow me to add "non product" pages so that the site visitor has cmsms and cat menu on left at all times ..will that be possible ?

I can let you have access to a full install if required.

Thanks

Roy

As its not permissible to add a zip to posting I have made a long txt file of the cart template files and separated each with ***** and file name

it is possible to use a CMS menu with an external application (via a javascript xmlhttp request), it's also possible to 'embed' another application into an iframe on a CMSMS page.  it depends on what you want to do, ans which application should be the primary.

The hard part will be styling everything, and re-arranging the cart's templates such that they all look like one application.

This is usually a slow, and laborious process.

Do you have an example layout that you want implemented? or is your cms site designed and you want to style the cart application to look like that?

calguy1000 wrote: it is possible to use a CMS menu with an external application (via a javascript xmlhttp request)

Sounds very interesting for me - can you show an example?

if you hook up some javascript to do an xmlhttp request of a url like this, you'll get the menu, and all that you need to do is style it.

Hi Calguy

Can you just expand on this a little please, I am having a few problems with it.

I have set up a test HTML page with the xmlhttp suggestion for testing. You can see the example here http://www.ppckd.com/xmlhttptest.html

It works fine when I try to embed just the URL and the entire page is displayed.

As soon as I try the full URL it displays nothing.

All I want to see is the menu.

Any ideas?

I copied your source to my site.... fixed one javascript error (missing semicolon) and changed the url and it worked for me
Test quickly, it won't be there long.

Many thanks Calguy

Copied the page directly from your site but still nothing being returned for my url. Used the same URL as yours with my domain substituted.

Could it be anything to do with the way my template is setup?

Do i need to change any of the parameters at the end of the url string?

Just been having another play Calguy.

I replaced the 'MenuManager' portion of my URL with 'News' and the news section displays perfectly!!

I am using Menu Manager 1.3, is that OK?

well.. that was going to be my next question... which version of CMS is this.

And you should upgrade your menumanager (if you're not running 1.1).  there are some wonderful new features in there.

Hi Calguy

I'm using 1.07.

Hi Calguy

One other thing I probably should mention is that I have 2 menus in the template.

The main menu is always displayed and is the one I want to use in the xmlhttp.

The second menu is wrapped in a CustomContent conditional area and is only visible once a user has logged in.

Could this have anything to do with it?

Wow that's cool, 

I've seen request for this before with no responce/way to do it....

CMSMS is movin right along that's why I've been in love with it for almost 1.5 yrs... and never looked back...

if you're asking for the default menu then that is what you should get.  I wouldn't be able to debug any more without shell access.

it is though strange that the default menu call doesn't work for you.