Need a little help getting started

Hi lisadye,

Sounds like you've made a great start!

What information did you want to reside inside of your template? If you can explain exactly what it is you're trying to achieve, we'll be happy to help. :)

Hello Chris. I played with it a little and I can get each page to work inside of a template perfectly! except...... if I modify the template (I'm using Dreamweaver by the way) then it updates all my pages of course and then all of a sudden they don't work any more....any advice? Want me to send one to you to look at?

Hi lisadye,

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "don't work anymore"? Do they show errors, show the wrong information, or show nothing at all?

Yes, please attach a not-working file to this thread so we can have a look.

Hi Chris. I finally figured out what the problem is but not sure how to stop it from happening. I create a template in Dreamweaver and then build my pages based on that template. I go to each page and copy in the php code and it works fine.

But, if I edit the template in Dreamweaver, it updates all the pages and replaces the top portion of the php - (this below):

<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<?php

require_once "/home/content/p/c/w/pcwebadmin2009/html/cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";

list($aboutRecords, $aboutMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'about',
'where' => whereRecordNumberInUrl(1),
'limit' => '1',
));
$aboutRecord = @$aboutRecords[0]; // get first record

// show error message if no matching record is found
if (!$aboutRecord) {
print "Record not found!";
exit;
}

?>

Do you know how I can stop Dreamweaver from overwriting that piece of code each time? And, maybe this is a question for Dreamweaver and not you guys :) But, just hoping someone else has encountered this before and can give some advice.

By the way, LOVE your CMS Builder product. It took me about 4 hours to 'learn' the product. Not bad and WELL worth the money. I plan to purchase a CMS Builder license for every one of my clients that wants to manage their own site. Very cool!

Hmm,

Unfortunately, I don't use Dreamweaver, so I can't say for sure... but I did some quick googling, and it looks like there's a "Never Rewrite Code" option that you can toggle that might help with that.

See this page for details:

http://webdesign.about.com/od/dreamweaver/ig/Dreamweaver-Options/Rewriting-Code.htm

I hope this helps. :)