Setting up the recently viewed items for the PHP and ASP templates

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ASP Version

Follow the steps below for the recently viewed box to appear on your pages.

Add the following to vsadmin/includes.asp

recentlyviewed=TRUE

NOTE: If you are using two vsadmin folders for security or ssl reasons, add the line to both includes.asp files.
Place this line in HTML / code view where you want the recently viewed box to appear, do make sure there is space below the box as it will expand as more items are viewed.
If you are placing the box on one of the store pages ie affiliate.asp, cart.asp, categories.asp, clientlogin.asp, orderstatus.asp prodetail.asp, products.asp, search.asp, sorry.asp and thanks.asp make sure that the line above comes somewhere in the code after the other include lines, which are:






If you are placing it on a non-store page like about.asp then you will need to add those above 4 lines and the recently viewed include line where it has to appear, like this:
Double check your code to make sure you have only one instance of these lines






on the page.
Open your CSS file, typically called style.css and add these lines if not already present
TD.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
}

P.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
}
Upload the page(s) to your server and check that it shows correctly. Do note that the box won't appear until you have actually viewed more than one product detail page. If you receive any kind of error message then please check the troubleshooting guide.

PHP Version

Add the following to vsadmin/includes.php

$recentlyviewed=TRUE;

NOTE: If you are using two vsadmin folders for security or ssl reasons, add the line to both includes.php files.
Place this line in HTML / code view where you want the recently viewed box to appear, do make sure there is space below the box as it will expand as more items are viewed.

<?php include "vsadmin/inc/increcentview.php" ?>
If you are placing the box on one of the store pages ie affiliate.php, cart.php, categories.php, clientlogin.php, orderstatus.php prodetail.php, products.php, search.php, sorry.php and thanks.php make sure that the line above comes somewhere in the code after the other include lines, which are:

<?php include "vsadmin/db_conn_open.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/languagefile.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/includes.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.php" ?>

If you are placing it on a non-store page like about.php then you will need to add those above 4 lines and the recently viewed include line where it has to appear, like this:

<?php include "vsadmin/db_conn_open.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/languagefile.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/includes.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/increcentview.php" ?>

Make sure that at the top of the page you have this code with absolutely no spaces before it

<?php
session_cache_limiter('none');
session_start();
ob_start(); ?><html>
Double check your code to make sure you have only one instance of these lines

<?php include "vsadmin/db_conn_open.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/languagefile.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/includes.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.php" ?>

on the page.
Open your CSS file, typically called style.css and add these lines if not already present
TD.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
}

P.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
}
Upload the page(s) to your server and check that it shows correctly. Do note that the box won't appear until you have actually viewed more than one product detail page. If you receive any kind of error message then please check the troubleshooting guide.

CSS Classes

The formatting of the text for the recently viewed box is the same as the mini cart and is achieved through two classes that will need to be added to style.css:

TD.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
}

P.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
}

This will give you a ten pixel Verdana font for all the text within the recently viewed box.

If you would like to change the background color of the box, add a line like this:

TD.mincart {
font-size: 10px;
font-family : Verdana;
background-color: #CC0000;
}

Troubleshooting

The most common errors regarding the set up of the recently viewed box are the following:

The box must go on a page with a .asp or .php extension depending on the version you are working from eg example.asp / example.php and not example.html or example.htm
The recently viewed include line must come after the other 4 ASP or PHP include lines. If placing the box is a problem then the other 4 include lines can be moved up the code.
The ASP or PHP include lines should not be duplicated on the page, if you receive an error then do check that there is only one instance of each.
The path to the increcentreview include is not correct. For example if you have the added the include line to a Dreamweaver library file (.lbi) or Template file (.dwt) then the path for the ASP version will probably be

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