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    The Override System really simplified 


    Wherever you see a folder named "classic" you can safely add your own /CUSTOM folder.

    includes
        languages
            classic
            CUSTOM

            english
                classic
                CUSTOM

                extra_definitions
                    classic
                    CUSTOM

                html_includes
                    ...
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    How do I remove and/or re-arrange the sideboxes? 


    Open your Admin.

    Point your cursor at "Tools" on the menu bar.

    Choose "Layout Boxes Controller".

    Click on the box that you would like to move ...
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    How do I change the category (or any other sidebox) title? 


    CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be changed to  the name of the  template/language you are using.


    Look in includes/languages/english.php. Suppose you want the Categories sidebox to have a different title. Look for

    define('BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES', 'Categories');>>

    Changes for additional sideboxes will follow this pattern:

    define('BOX_HEADING_XXXXXXXX', 'New Title

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    How do I add an image to the bottom of my sideboxes or center boxes? 


    From Zen Cart 1.3.0 this became very easy to do with CSS. The exact method will depend upon whether you are creating a small image to be repeated, or a image that will either span the box or is intended to be centred within it. (There are of course other design possibilities but we'll concentrate on these for the moment).

    Firstly create your image and place it in the images directory of your template.
    ...
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    Is it possible to add normal text (i.e. not links) to the top of my EZ-Pages sidebox? 


    It certainly is.

    To insert the text, we firstly create some over-ride files. If it doesn't already exist, create the following directory

        includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/sideboxes

    and copy includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_ezpages.php into it. Similarly, if they don't already ...
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    Is there a way that I can check on what users with Admin access to my site are doing? 


    There isn't currently a Zen Cart page to do this, but each time an Admin page is called, the access date, admin ID, page accessed, page parameters ...
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    How do I change the login link at the top of my site to read "login/register"? 


    If you haven't already done so, create an includes/languages/YOUR_LANGUAGE/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME folder and copy your includes/languages/YOUR_LANGUAGE/header.php file to it.

    Open the file in your ...
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    The credit card number starting with 4111 was not entered correctly, or we do not accept that kind of card. 


    Zen Cart evaluates the credit card numbers you enter to see if they match the settings you have enabled in the Admin->Config->Credit Cards settings.

    So, if you enter a MasterCard number, but have MasterCard turned off (in the Admin), then it will tell the customer "we don't accept that kind of card".

    It doesn't matter which credit card gateway you have installed ... the same processing will reject disabled card-types before even sending to the merchant gateway.

    Resolution:
    1. Review your merchant account settings ...
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    How do I add additional links to the Header and Footer? 


    CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be changed to  the name of the  template/language you are using.

    There are two options for adding additional links to the header and footer of your site.

    OPTION 1:

    Additional links requires editing two files; tpl_header.php and tpl_footer.php.
    You can add internal page links as well external links. We'll use tpl_header.php in this article, ...
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    My EZ-Pages aren't showing up in my site map. How do I include them? 


    The site map page does not currently support EZ-Pages, however there is a contribution available from the download section to allow you to add in those ...
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    I want to use EZ-Pages on my multi-lingual site, but it only seems to support one language. Can it support more? 


    Although the EZ-Pages code in Zen Cart is currently monolingual, there is a contribution available from the download section that extends this to cover ...
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    My browser bar says "Zen Cart!, The Art of ...", where do I change that? 


    CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be changed to  the name of the  template/language you are using.


    To change the title text to say what you want, open the includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php file in your text editor. Find the following line of code:

    // page title
    define('TITLE', 'Zen Cart!');

    // Site Tagline
    define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'The Art of E-commerce');

    Replace the title and tagline text with your own text, making sure that the single quote marks are not left out and new quote marks are ...

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    How do I set up PayPal IPN to return to my store automatically? 


    Detailed setup instructions can be found here:  http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/PayPal

    In brief, as an answer to just the question mentioned as the title of this article, the following applies:

    1. You must have a "Premier" or "Business" PayPal account in order to use the PayPal module for receiving payments.

    2. ...
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    How do I turn off weight from my product descriptions 


    Firstly let's be clear about the difference between a product listing and product info. When you see a number of products listed together, that's a product listing. When you click on one of ...
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    How do I remove the Home in the middle column next to the Categories box? 


    CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be changed to  the name of the  template/language you are using.

    These are called the breadcrumbs (think Hansel and Gretel ) showing where you are and how to get back to previous locations. You can either turn it off completely or you can turn it off only on the main page. Although this looks a little odd on your home page, they can very useful to your users as they go deeper into your site.

    You can turn them off completely in Admin -> Configuration -> Layout settings -> Define Breadcrumb Status and set to 0. In version 1.3.7 you have three options; off, on, turn off on home page only.

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    1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '000000 where products_id = '1'' at line 1 in: [update zen_products set products_ordered = products_ordered + 1,000000 where products_id = '1'] 


    When placing an order, the following error appears:
    1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '000000 where products_id = '1'' at line 1
    in:
    [update zen_products set products_ordered = ...
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