Branding

Omnistar Affiliate PHP support software can easily be branded so that web designers and software distributors can resell our easy-to-use software.

1. Backup File

• After you have unzipped the software, be sure to backup the file you will be modifying, so that you can restore your software to its original state if you encounter any problems. To brand the software you will modify the 'etools2.php' file, which is located in the lib directory, so you should backup the 'etools2.php' file.

2. Edit File

• Find the following lines in the 'etools2.php' file and comment them out by adding a '#' before each line:
  $feedback_link='http://www.omnistaretools.com/feedback.html';
  $order_software='http://www.omnistaretools.com/overview2.html';
  $business_email='http://www.omnistarwebmail.com';
  $buy_domain='http://www.omnistardomains.com';
  $b_reseller='http://www.osidomainreseller.com';
  $docmgr='http://www.omnistardrive.com';
  $aresponder='http://www.omnistarmailer.com';
  $view_all_products='http://www.omnistaretools.com/overview2.html';


• For example, the first line will now read:
  #$feedback_link='http://www.omnistaretools.com/feedback.html';

3. Set Admin Area Top Navigation URLs

• The software has built-in navigational links at the top of the admin section. You can disable some or all of these links by setting their corresponding variables equal to 0. Below are the variables and their corresponding displays:
  $show_user_area - 'Access User Area' link
  $show_help - 'User Guide' link
  $provide_feedback - 'Provide Feedback' link
  $show_kbase - 'Knowledgebase' link
  $show_custom_link - 'Do you need customization?' link


• In order to change the URL of the navigational links, modify the following variables:
  $user_area
  $helpfile
  $feedback
  $kbase
  $customization_link

4. Powered By Link

• By default, the software displays a 'powered by' link in emails and on the bottom of the login and admin pages. In order to disable the 'powered by' link, set the following variables equal to 0:
  $powered_login
  $show_power_link


• In order to change the text/URL of the powered by links, modify the following variables:
  $powered - Part of powered by text that will also be a link
  $powered_link - URL for the link
  $powered_text - plain text that follows link text

5. Affiliate Marketing Resource Center

• The installed version of our affiliate software includes a resource center with links to blog articles. In order to completely brand the software, either change the content of this section in the 'admin/index.php' file or remove the section completely by setting the following variable in 'etools2.php' equal to 0:
  $show_resource


• If you remove the resource section, you may want to increase the amount of transactions that are displayed in the 'Latest Affiliate Transactions' section. In order to do this, set the following variable to a number greater than five:
  $latest_affiliate_trans
  (Setting the variable to 10 should completely fill the space where the resource center was located)