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24/04/2012 - Page re-coding – still a few bits left such as about blurb for 'home pages', and some transformer pix need tidying up, else all seems to work now. [more info...]

24/04/2012 - Page re-coding – still a few bits left such as about blurb for 'home pages', and some transformer pix need tidying up, else all seems to work now. Been quite a marathon – main issue was identical duplicate HTML code, or actual texts even, on nearly 200 pages making it very difficult to edit or change anything. Such as link captions and icons, and HTML page headers. Consequently all this stuff has been (eventually) reduced down to one copy of each, and largely stored in PHP arrays.

Also needed to prune out quite a bit of dead code (some of these pages are quite old in origin) – even found some HTML that only works in old versions of Netscape Navigator!

The way it works now is that index.php is a top-level wrapper that loads a repository module and a controller module.

The repository is a class (instantiated object) that contains all the menus, captions, icon URL's and various other globally used flags and standardised bits and pieces of HTML that are displayed on pages, in one place. The controller (another class object – self-creating, no less) checks the page request URL syntax ( '?p=whatever' ) then loads the requested page module (after testing whether it actually exists). It also stores the information that the repository created. The page module then plugs all the bits together to make a HTML page, which is what is actually sent out by the server. At that point the PHP code has ended.

The page modules won't run without the controller and so, to stop the PHP error log growing LOL, I've had to take them out of the root domain URL to prevent other site page links and search engine bots trying to load them without using 'index.php'.

The stylesheet is now all-in-one does-everything (except the about pages which have their own). There are (or should be) CSS style variations to suit each make of later browser versions to render the rounded corners and drop-shadows. The animation script has been reduced down to barest essentials (it was large!), since as all later browser versions use the Document Object Model (DOM), we don't need to cater for 2 or 3 different ways of moving HTML elements about. Big sigh of relief all round, LOL ... So far as I can tell it's using the correct latterly supported CSS style properties.

In case you were wondering how to put a scroll bar on a DIV element box that contains long text so you can scroll it, its: style="overflow-y: scroll;" Seemples!
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17/04/2012 - Page re-coding! Into the third month now! Site was offline couple of times lately while I was moving files around and totally restructuring the way they are plugged together, plus the usual, things not working and spending hours trying to find out why LOL...  [more info...]

17/04/2012 - Page re-coding! Into the third month now! Site was offline couple of times lately while I was moving files around and totally restructuring the way they are plugged together, plus the usual, things not working and spending hours trying to find out why LOL...

I think most of the basic essential things work now, any problems please let me know. The 'About' links don't work yet by the way. Still to do... also want to tidy up some of the pictures...

Oh yeah I did away with the transformer 'pairs', instead it's all-in-one, same order code but with cheaper price for 'Qty of 2 or more'.

12/04/2012 - Page re-coding still ongoing!

24/03/2012 - New order form is up and running. Completed payment made via the PayPal link should mean form submits itself automatically on the return (after a short delay), going to the (new style) confirmation page. You should also now get a copy of your items list in the automated e-mail. Any problems please let me know!

22/03/2012 @ 4:45 pm - So far so good, if you find any problems with the site pages please let me know! New order form page next .....

22/03/2012 - ARRGH!! Forgot about the pairs – o/p transformer pairs' order code lines went AWOL during the style changes lol...

20/03/2012 - Page updates still ongoing! Have 'improved' the categories lists and put the mains transformers list into two columns so the end stops disappearing off the bottom of the window.  [...less info]

01/03/2012 - I have changed the vector for pages loaded outside of the index.php wrapper so that there is an automatic reload  [more info...]

01/03/2012 - I have changed the vector for pages loaded outside of the index.php wrapper so that there is an automatic reload without having to click a link (5 seconds delay to read message), also improved the message (it's not actually an error as such).

27th Feb - 10 days later I'm still trying to finish reformatting the transformers pages, but interruptions abound...

16/02/2012 - transformers pages modifications still ongoing (reduce old-fashioned table layouts).

13/02/2012 - top bar tabs and side menu changed (successfully at last!) to left floated div's, replaces old table method.

12/02/2012 - hopefully everything is working now. For a while yesterday the transformer contents page wasn't working, it was working before, then it stopped working, except I didn't know it had stopped working...

Previously orderform had a bit of bother not getting a bit of script so may not have been able to save some cookies for the duration.

11-12/02/2012 - don't believe it I think it works now.... and about time... LOL

10/02/2012 - OK well after about 2 days + very late nights of swearing & tearing my hair out I think I've got the 'pop-up' notification to work and look and behave how I want. Next, can we get the code to actually add items to the basket....

09-10/02/2012 - still ongoing! OK so far, next I'd like to contrive a better way of doing the 'Add To Order' notification as the pop-up window is a pain.

08/02/2012 - I have recently updated page layout (slightly) and done a few small edits, also the PHP coding such that all pages should now load in a top level 'wrapper' (index.php), if you find any problems please let me know.

07/02/2012 - I might have successfully (at last!) got PayPal to return completed purchasers back to the order form page (in the same window) so that you can 'complete purchase'. That means 'post' the form! (click 'Send' button) If this does not work properly (the return thingy) please say something! As I cannot test it fully by buying anything from myself through PayPal LOL.  [...less info]