Thanks again for your help.
Im using the domain trader script brought out by smart script solutions, its one that i had to pay around £600 for so it is unavailable to download. The way the script is put together is very complicated. Where usual scripts have a file for each page template this script has all of the templates in one database, and to edit each template you have to log in via the admin to access the code for the page you are looking for. Also the pages do not use just one template, for example the homepage is plit into 3 templates called header, index, and footer.
Very complicated and unorthadox. My brother also has the same script and his web developer absolutley hates it. If i had known the script to be like this i never would have purchased it.
The very first peice of code i posted was taken from index template, I will include all 3 templates below to represent the entire home page below, but please note the only part of the code i am trying to edit is the showcase domains section.
Header Code
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={$sitevar.charset}">
<title>{$sitevar.site_name} - {$dtphrase.page_title}</title>
{$cssvar.page_name}
{$javavar.page_name}
</head>
<body id="home">
<div id="outer">
<h1><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/index.php">{$dtphrase.index_top_phrase}<em></em></a></h1>
<p class="ad468">
{if count($banners) > 0}
<a href="{$banners.destination}" target="_blank"><img src="{$sitevar.banner_upload_url}/{$banners.location}" alt="{$banners.name}" /></a>
{/if}
</p>
<div id="nav">
<div>
<ul>
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "index"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/index.php">{$dtphrase.header_home_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/index.php">{$dtphrase.header_home_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "buydomains"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/buydomains.php">{$dtphrase.header_buydomains_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/buydomains.php">{$dtphrase.header_buydomains_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "selldomains"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/selldomains.php">{$dtphrase.header_selldomains_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/selldomains.php">{$dtphrase.header_selldomains_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "parkdomains"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/parkdomains.php">{$dtphrase.header_parkdomains_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/parkdomains.php">{$dtphrase.header_parkdomains_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "search"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php">{$dtphrase.header_search_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php">{$dtphrase.header_search_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "aboutus"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/aboutus.php">{$dtphrase.header_aboutus_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/aboutus.php">{$dtphrase.header_aboutus_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "contactus"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/contactus.php">{$dtphrase.header_contactus_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/contactus.php">{$dtphrase.header_contactus_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{assign var=user_session value=$sitevar.session_name}
{if isset($smarty.session.$user_session)}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "usercp" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "add" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "manage" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "offers" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "sales" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "messages" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "billing" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "deposit" ||
$smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "withdraw"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/login.php">{$dtphrase.header_myaccount_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/login.php">{$dtphrase.header_myaccount_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{else}
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "login" || $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "register"}
<li class="current"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/login.php">{$dtphrase.header_login_link}</a></li>
{else}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/login.php">{$dtphrase.header_login_link}</a></li>
{/if}
{/if}
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="main">
Index Code
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<h2>{$dtphrase.welcome_head}</h2>
<div class="intro">
{$dtphrase.welcome_text}
</div>
<div class="search">
<h3>{$dtphrase.search_head}</h3>
<form id="search" method="get" action="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="searchresults" />
<div class="search-inner">
<input class="inp170" type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" />
in
<select name="category" id="category">
<option value="allcat">{$dtphrase.all_categories}</option>
{section name="i" loop=$categories}
<option value="{$categories[i].id}">{$categories[i].category}</option>
{/section}
</select>
<input type="image" class="inpHov" name="imageField" id="imageField" src="{$sitevar.site_url}/images/search.gif" />
<a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=advancedsearch">{$dtphrase.advanced_search}</a></div>
</form>
</div>
<!-- 4 tables floated side by side in rows of two.-->
<div class="entries left-entry">
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.latest_entries}</span></h4>
<div class="table-wrap">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th class="col1" scope="col">{$dtphrase.domain_name_label}</th>
<th class="col2" scope="col">{$dtphrase.min_offer_label}</th>
<th class="col3" scope="col">{$dtphrase.bin_price_label}</th>
</tr>
{section name="i" loop=$latest_entries}
{cycle values="even,odd" assign="rowclass"}
<tr class="{$rowclass}">
<td><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/{if $sitevar.seo_friendly_urls eq "1"}{$sitevar.seo_friendly_dir}/{$latest_entries[i].id}/{$latest_entries[i].domain}{else}details.php?id={$latest_entries[i].id}{/if}">{$latest_entries[i].domain}</a></td>
<td>{if $sitevar.display_currency_symbol eq "1"} {$latest_entries[i].currency_symbol}{/if}{$latest_entries[i].minimum_offer|number_format:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_places:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_seperator:$sitevar.number_format_thousands_seperator}{if $sitevar.display_currency_code eq "1"} {$latest_entries[i].currency}{/if}</td>
<td>{if $sitevar.display_currency_symbol eq "1"} {$latest_entries[i].currency_symbol}{/if}{$latest_entries[i].bin_price|number_format:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_places:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_seperator:$sitevar.number_format_thousands_seperator}{if $sitevar.display_currency_code eq "1"} {$latest_entries[i].currency}{/if}</td>
</tr>
{sectionelse}
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><div align="center">{$dtphrase.no_latest_entries}</div></td>
</tr>
{/section}
<tr class="lastrow">
<td colspan="3"><p class="fl"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/add.php?mode=adddomain">{$dtphrase.enter_domains}</a></p>
<p class="fr"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=morelistings&id=latest">{$dtphrase.more_listings}</a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="tablebase"></div>
</div>
<!-- end entry-->
<div class="entries">
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.showcase_entries}</span></h4>
<div class="table-wrap">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th class="col1" scope="col">{$dtphrase.domain_name_label}</th>
<th class="col2" scope="col">{$dtphrase.min_offer_label}</th>
<th class="col3" scope="col">{$dtphrase.bin_price_label}</th>
</tr>
{section name="i" loop=$showcase_entries}
{cycle values="even,odd" assign="rowclass"}
<tr class="{$rowclass}">
<td><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/{if $sitevar.seo_friendly_urls eq "1"}{$sitevar.seo_friendly_dir}/{$showcase_entries[i].id}/{$showcase_entries[i].domain}{else}details.php?id={$showcase_entries[i].id}{/if}">{$showcase_entries[i].domain}</a></td>
<td>{if $sitevar.display_currency_symbol eq "1"} {$showcase_entries[i].currency_symbol}{/if}{$showcase_entries[i].minimum_offer|number_format:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_places:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_seperator:$sitevar.number_format_thousands_seperator} {if $sitevar.display_currency_code eq "1"} {$showcase_entries[i].currency}{/if}</td>
<td>{if $sitevar.display_currency_symbol eq "1"} {$showcase_entries[i].currency_symbol}{/if}{$showcase_entries[i].bin_price|number_format:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_places:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_seperator:$sitevar.number_format_thousands_seperator} {if $sitevar.display_currency_code eq "1"} {$showcase_entries[i].currency}{/if}</td>
</tr>
{sectionelse}
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><div align="center">{$dtphrase.no_showcase_entries}</div></td>
</tr>
{/section}
<tr class="lastrow">
<td colspan="3"><p class="fl"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/add.php?mode=adddomain">{$dtphrase.enter_domains}</a></p>
<p class="fr"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=morelistings&id=showcase">{$dtphrase.more_listings}</a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="tablebase"></div>
</div>
<!-- end entry-->
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="entries left-entry">
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.auctions}</span></h4>
<div class="table-wrap">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th class="col1" scope="col">{$dtphrase.domain_name_label}</th>
<th class="col2" scope="col">{$dtphrase.offer_label}</th>
<th class="col3" scope="col">{$dtphrase.time_left_label}</th>
</tr>
{section name="i" loop=$auctions}
{cycle values="even,odd" assign="rowclass"}
<tr class="{$rowclass}">
<td><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/{if $sitevar.seo_friendly_urls eq "1"}{$sitevar.seo_friendly_dir}/{$auctions[i].id}/{$auctions[i].domain}{else}details.php?id={$auctions[i].id}{/if}">{$auctions[i].domain}</a></td>
<td>{if $sitevar.display_currency_symbol eq "1"} {$auctions[i].currency_symbol}{/if}{$auctions[i].high_bid|number_format:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_places:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_seperator:$sitevar.number_format_thousands_seperator}{if $sitevar.display_currency_code eq "1"} {$auctions[i].currency}{/if}</td>
<td>{convert_time_left seconds=$auctions[i].time_left days_phrase=$dtphrase.days_phrase day_phrase=$dtphrase.day_phrase hour_phrase=$dtphrase.hour_phrase min_phrase=$dtphrase.min_phrase}</td>
</tr>
{sectionelse}
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><div align="center">{$dtphrase.no_auctions}</div></td>
</tr>
{/section}
<tr class="lastrow">
<td colspan="3"><p class="fl"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/add.php?mode=adddomain">{$dtphrase.enter_domains}</a></p>
<p class="fr"><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=morelistings&id=auctions">{$dtphrase.more_listings}</a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="tablebase"></div>
</div>
<!-- end entry-->
<div class="entries">
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.latest_sales}</span></h4>
<div class="table-wrap">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th class="col1" scope="col">{$dtphrase.domain_name_label}</th>
<th class="col2" scope="col">{$dtphrase.sale_price_label}</th>
</tr>
{section name="i" loop=$latest_sales}
{cycle values="even,odd" assign="rowclass"}
<tr class="{$rowclass}">
<td>{$latest_sales[i].domain}</td>
<td class="col2">{if $sitevar.display_currency_symbol eq "1"} {$latest_sales[i].currency_symbol}{/if}{$latest_sales[i].price|number_format:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_places:$sitevar.number_format_decimal_seperator:$sitevar.number_format_thousands_seperator}{if $sitevar.display_currency_code eq "1"} {$latest_sales[i].currency}{/if}</td>
</tr>
{sectionelse}
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center">{$dtphrase.no_sales}</div></td>
</tr>
{/section}
<tr class="lastrow">
<td colspan="2"><p class="fr"> </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="tablebase"></div>
</div>
<!-- end entry-->
Footer Code
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</div>
<!-- end main -->
<div id="sidebar">
<div class="login headbar">
{if isset($smarty.session.$user_session)}
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.footer_tools_header}</span></h4>
<div class="log clearfix">
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/usercp.php?mode=loggedin">{$dtphrase.footer_account_home_link}</a></strong></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/add.php?mode=adddomain">{$dtphrase.footer_add_domain_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/manage.php?mode=managedomains">{$dtphrase.footer_manage_domain_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/manage.php?mode=manageparkeddomains">{$dtphrase.footer_domain_parking_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/offers.php?mode=viewoffersmade">{$dtphrase.footer_offersmade_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/offers.php?mode=viewoffersreceived">{$dtphrase.footer_offersreceived_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/sales.php?mode=viewdomainsales">{$dtphrase.footer_sales_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/messages.php?mode=viewmessages">{$dtphrase.footer_messages_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/billing.php?mode=viewbilling">{$dtphrase.footer_billing_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/deposit.php?mode=deposit">{$dtphrase.footer_deposit_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/withdraw.php?mode=withdraw">{$dtphrase.footer_withdraw_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/usercp.php?mode=editacctinfo">{$dtphrase.footer_acct_info_link}</a></li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/usercp.php?mode=logout">{$dtphrase.footer_logout_link}</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
{else}
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.footer_login_header}</span></h4>
<form class="loginform" id="memberlogin" method="post" action="{$sitevar.site_url}/login.php">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="login" />
{if $smarty.get.return}<input type="hidden" name="return" value="{$smarty.get.return}">{/if}
<div class="log clearfix">
<label for="username">{$dtphrase.footer_username}</label>
<input class="inp170" type="text" name="user_name" id="user_name" />
<label for="password">{$dtphrase.footer_password}</label>
<input class="inp170" type="password" name="password" id="password" />
<input type="submit" class="logsub" name="button" value="Login" />
<a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/register.php">{$dtphrase.footer_not_member}</a><br />
<a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/recoverlogin.php">{$dtphrase.footer_lost_pw}</a> </div>
<div class="joinnow headbar headjoin">
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.footer_join_now}</span></h4>
<div>
<p>{$dtphrase.footer_join_phrase}</p>
</div>
<p class="join-dom">
<a href="register.php"><img src="{$sitevar.site_url}/images/join.gif" class="inpHov" name="imageField2" id="imageField2" /></a>
</p>
</div>
</form>
{/if}
</div>
<div class="base200"></div>
<div class="categories headbar">
<h4><span>{$dtphrase.footer_categories_header}</span></h4>
<div class="cat">
<ul>
{section name="i" loop=$side_categories}
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=viewcat&id={$side_categories[i].id}">{$side_categories[i].category}</a></li>
{/section}
<li class="view-all">
{if isset($smarty.session.side_categories)}
<a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=mincats">{$dtphrase.footer_show_min_cats}…</a>
{else}
<a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php?mode=showallcats">{$dtphrase.footer_view_all_cat}…</a>
{/if}
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="base200"></div>
{if $smarty.const.SCRIPT_NAME eq "manage"}
<div class="iconkey headbar">
<h4><span>Icon Key</span></h4>
<div class="sideicons">
<ul>
<li class="left"><img src="{$sitevar.icon_auction_image}" border="0" /></li>
<li class="right">{$dtphrase.icon_status_domainonauction}</li>
<li class="left"><img src="{$sitevar.icon_active_image}" border="0" /></li>
<li class="right">{$dtphrase.icon_status_domainisactive}</li>
<li class="left"><img src="{$sitevar.icon_inactive_image}" border="0" /></li>
<li class="right">{$dtphrase.icon_status_domainisinactive}</li>
<li class="left"><img src="{$sitevar.icon_showcase_image}" border="0" /></li>
<li class="right">{$dtphrase.icon_status_domaininshowcase}</li>
<li class="left"><img src="{$sitevar.icon_sold_image}" border="0" /></li>
<li class="right">{$dtphrase.icon_status_domainmarkedsold}</li>
<li class="left"><img src="{$sitevar.icon_parked_image}" border="0" /></li>
<li class="right">{$dtphrase.icon_status_domainisparked}</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="base200"></div>
{/if}
</div>
<!-- end sidebar -->
<div id="footer">
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/index.php">{$dtphrase.footer_home_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/buydomains.php">{$dtphrase.footer_buy_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/selldomains.php">{$dtphrase.footer_sell_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/parkdomains.php">{$dtphrase.footer_park_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/search.php">{$dtphrase.footer_search_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/aboutus.php">{$dtphrase.footer_about_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/contactus.php">{$dtphrase.footer_contact_link}</a> - </li>
<li><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/login.php">{$dtphrase.footer_login_register_link}</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="copyright">
<p><a href="{$sitevar.site_url}/index.php"><img src="{$sitevar.site_url}/images/logo2.jpg" alt="{$sitevar.site_name}" /></a></p>
<p>{$sitevar.site_copyright}</p>
<p>{if $sitevar.page_load_time eq 1}{page_load_time start=$page_load_start}{/if}</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It may be that I will have to pay the script developer to do the mod for me, however im always keen to ask for help on the forums and give it a go myself, I actually learn what im doing then
Thanks again.