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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 25, 2004 - 05:14 PM

  I am trying to modify the thank you page for the pnAffiliate module so that I can give my users more instructions on what to do next. Currently I am using the stock code below.
  
  
  

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  <?
  $payment="5.00";//Put the amount that you wish to pay to affiliates who are responsible for this sale
  include 'includes/pnAPI.php';
  pnInit();
  include 'modules/pnAffiliate/includes/registersale.php';
  $output = new pnHTML();
  $output->StartPage();
  $output->SetInputMode(_PNH_VERBATIMINPUT);
  $output->text("thank you");
  $output->EndPage();
  $output->PrintPage();
  ?>

  
  
  Here is where I am running into problems that the code

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  $output->text("thank you");

  Generates small text crammed right up against the header of the generated page. Unfortunately it makes it hard to read and the uninitiated may miss it and just see a Blank Page.
  
  What I would like to do is make the output in HTML instead of txt so that the text can be spaced down a bit more toward the center of the page and in a larger font size. I would also like to be able to include links to direct the user to take more action.
  
  I have tried several different approaches but I always wind up with the text at the top before the page renders, at the bottom after the page renders or creating a parse error because I am hunting around in the dark.
  
  Thanks in advance for any help.
  
  Bill

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 26, 2004 - 05:40 AM

  The code looks correct, I bet your theme is the culprit. What theme are you using?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 26, 2004 - 06:55 AM

  I am using the PostNuke theme that shipped with .726 (the brown one). I made some modifications to the colors on the theme but nothing else. I was hoping that there might be a way to change $output->text("text here"); maybe like $output->HTML("markup and links here"); but I have not been able to find anything that works.
  
  I have also tried escaping out of PHP after the text output and including the markup that I want but that doesn't work either.
  
  Thanks for the input
  
  Bill

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 28, 2004 - 04:53 PM

  Well it took me long enough but with a generous amount of searching and probably more than a small bit of luck I solved my problem at least enough that the thanks page looks acceptable.
  
  Here is the code that I came up with.
  
  The URL that I found my answer is at the bottom of this post.
  
  

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  <?
  $payment="5.00";//Put the amount that you wish to pay to affiliates who are responsible for this sale
  
  include 'includes/pnAPI.php';
  pnInit();
  include 'modules/pnAffiliate/includes/registersale.php';
  $output = new pnHTML();
  $output->StartPage();
  
  $output->SetInputMode(_PNH_VERBATIMINPUT);
  
  //Here is where the modified code begins
  //Line breaks to bring the data down toward the center of the page
  //so that it is not crammed all the way into the header
  
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 10);
  
  
  
  //Title to create a larger font size for the thank you
  //Not as large as I would like but it will do until I figure something else out
  
  $output->Title('Thank You For Your Order');
  
  
  
  //Another line break pretty much self explanitory now
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 1);
  
  
  //Make some bold text
  $output->BoldText('Bold Text goes here');
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 1);
  $output->BoldText('More bold text here');
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 2);
  
  
  //plain old text
  
  $output->Text('Obviously some plain old text here');
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 1);
  
  //note the space after text so that text and the following mailto url has a space between them
  $output->Text('And some more plain old text ');
  
  //a mailto URL
  
  $output->Text('<a href="mailto:username@domain.tld">username@domain.tld</a>');
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 2);
  
  //more text
  
  $output->Text('amazingly enough some more plain text ');
  $output->Linebreak($numbreaks = 1);
  
  
  //a hyperlink
  
  $output->Text('<a href="http://www.paypal.com">www.paypal.com </a>');
  
  
  
  $output->Text('and lastly but not leastly some more plain text);
  
  
  $output->EndPage();
  $output->PrintPage();
  ?>

  
  
  
  
  
  http://noc.postnuke.…hp/9/38/pnHTML.html
  
  Bill

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 28, 2004 - 06:25 PM

  You mean you just wanted to know how to improve the page design using pnHTML? I don't see any difference between the two other than a lot more display text. Am I missing something?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 29, 2004 - 06:30 AM

  Yes, I wanted to improve the page design. That's what I said in my original post. When I first started working with the module I was not sure what I was looking for to make these improvements. It took me a while to figure out the pnHTML class was what I was looking for in order to do that.
  
  Yes there is more display text but I was also able to get the URLs, linebreaks, and bold text in as well. I would still like to be able to use other formating but for now this does what I need it to do. I can go farther as I figure out how all of the functions work.
  
  Unfortunately, what little documentation I found was cryptic at best. Hopefully the next time someone comes along looking for information on this they will not have to spend a week looking for one page of documentation that only makes sense if you have been at this for half a dozen years. 8)
  
  Bill

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