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    Can customers purchase from my Zen Cart shop without creating an account? 


    At this time all customers must register with their full name, address and other information before going to the checkout. The ability to have more flexibility in the login/account creation/checkout process is on our ...
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    How do I re-arrange the order of the links in the information sidebox? 


    1. Create (if you don't already have it) a directory names includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/
    2. Copy the includes/modules/sideboxes/information.php file into your new directory
    3. Edit the "if" blocks into the order that you would like them to appear.
    4. ...
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    What is CHMOD and what do the numbers mean? 


    Problem: "I'm having trouble setting my configure.php files to read-only.  What does 444 mean?"

    Answer:
    A number of hosts do not allow setting permissions to 644 for some reason (mine included). Setting to 444 is perfectly acceptable. If you should need to modify the file you may need to temporarily change the permissions to something like 755 while you make the modification. Be sure that when you are finished ...
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    Would like to set up individual shipping charges per item. That is, Item A will cost $25.00 per item to ship and Item B would cost $30.00 per item to ship. How can this be done? 


    The per-weight shipping module can be used for this.

    1. Turn on the Per-Unit (perweightunit) shipping module in Admin->Modules->Shipping

    2. Now manually edit *each* product and enter ...
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    Is it ideal to use a WYSIWYG editor such as Dreamweaver to work with Zen Cart in Dreamweaver? 


    Yes and No. The pages displayed in your browser are made up of XHTML styled by CSS. XHTML is static and easy for WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver in Design View to interpret and display.
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    I've got TEXT_MAIN being displayed on my page (or other unexpected UPPERCASE words) 


    Lesson

    An uppercase set of words akin to TEXT_MAIN or ENTRY_STATE_TEXT  or SOMETHING_LOOKING_LIKE_THIS  is called a "constant" in PHP language terms.
    A "define" statement is used to declare a constant.

    This is what Zen Cart currently uses to build language output content, among other things.

    Commonly you'll see language ...
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    How do I set up Gift Certificates? 


    To sell Gift Certificates in your store, you need to create them as specific products (according to special requirements, outlined below):

    1. In the Admin, make a new category called Gift Certificates. Add a product to the category called Gift Certificates.
    2. On the Product Information Page fill in the blanks as follows:
    • Products Status: In Stock
    • Date Available: leave blank
    • Products Manufacturer: leave blank
    • Products Name: Gift Certificate
    • Product is Free: No
    • Product ...
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    How do I set up the Zones Shipping Module? 


    By default, the module comes with support for 3 zones. This can be easily altered with a coding change by editing the Zones Shipping Module file (If you make this change and your Zones module is already installed/active, you'll need to record your settings, then click Remove, then click Install, and re-enter all your settings. Otherwise your change will have peculiar visual side-effects).

    /includes/ modules/ shipping/ zones.php

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    My emails are not arriving to all domains, or rejected from "nobody" 


    From this thread: Archived discussion on email problems ...

    It actually has nothing to do with Zen Cart or the unroutable domains I was sending mail to. It has to do with cPanel configuration.

    In cPanel, ...

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    How do I show my documents in their own sidebox? 


    Make your category ... like Recipes

    Edit the category ... Set to product type: Document General

    Create your "products", the recipes.

    By restricting ...
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    Can I build Zen Cart offline, then upload it to a live server? 


    The newer version of this article is posted at:

    http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=99 ...
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    How do I put my Documents in their own Menu Sidebox? 


    Please see this link:
    Documents in their own sidebox
    ...
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    I want to move/rename the folder Zen Cart is installed in on my server... How? 


    Please see this updated article: ...
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    I want to import my data from another eCommerce system 


    A few resources which may help you:

    Migrating from another MySQL system
    EasyPopulate-Free
    EasyPopulate-Advanced
    Using Excel to import or manipulate SQL data
    Data Manager Tool
    SQLYog Windows-based database mgr for MySQL

    Using any of those tools will still require ...
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    How do I set up metatags for my site, or per-product for search engines to find? 


    Zen Cart is built with a feature to have separate meta tags for each Category and Products -- separate from the ones on general pages.

    Categories
    To define meta tags for a Category, go to the Admin -> Catalog -> Categories/Products once you're there..click on the meta tag icon (the last one to the right for any given category) and set your content.
    Note: A meta tag must contain keywords and ...
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    How do I turn off the EZ-Pages Header Bar? 


    There are two ways to turn off the EZ-pages header bar. Firstly, it won't show if there are no links there, so turning off all link in the header (Admin > ...
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