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Tutorials/FAQs
A "couldn't resolve host" message indicates that your webserver had a problem looking up the IP address of the destination server at the moment it needed to.
That can happen for a number of reasons:
A. Problems ...
Your PayPal Express Checkout and/or Website Payments Pro module settings require 4 components to be set correctly in order to talk to PayPal successfully. If any one of them is incorrect, you'll not ...
Go to Admin > Configuration > Define Page Settings and set their values to 2 or 3. ...
Yes, you can. Firstly, if you don't already have one, create an over-ride file for tpl_main_page.php in your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common directory.
There is enormous scope within this one module to create turn the left and right hand columns on and off according to which page or category is to be displayed. Open it up and you will see a large comment at the top explaining some of them. Here are a few examples to help illustrate that ...
If you wished to turn off the left hand column for the "contact us" and "terms & conditions" pages, find the following block of code ...
When customers transfer from your site to the PayPal website, they are presented with a screen showing some of the details of their purchase.
They are also given some fields in which to enter their PayPal username and password if they wish to pay using ...
Problem:
On my product pages, I'm seeing images from other products showing under my product description. Why? How do I change this?
Cause:
The "additional images" feature is causing this.
Solution:
You have two options:
a) rename your images so they don't share a common filename. Right now since you have one product with "abc.jpg" as the name, and another ...
1. You need to have purchases in your store first ... where customers bought "this" product along with "another" product.
2. Set this > 0 --- ...
Symptom
The ending ?> seems to be missing in some of my files, esp since upgrading to v1.3.8.
With a Diff viewer I can see that in some cases the last line has changed from ?> to //EOF
Cause
This is completely acceptable and has been done intentionally.
As you may know, if you try to run a PHP file which has whitespace (spaces or ...
There are two sideboxes for search. You can control both through the Admin > Tools > Layout Box Controller.
The search.php sidebox is a conventional sidebox ...
This error is triggered because the permissions on the file are set to Read,Write and Execute (UNIX) or on Windows no attributes are checked in the file properties.
On LINUX/UNIX: Open the /includes/ directory and using CHMOD, set the permissions to 444. (Some systems may prefer 644)
On Windows: Open the /includes/ directory, right click on the configure.php file and check the "Read Only" status.
Sometimes you have to do this via a File Manager tool provided by your webhosting provider. In cPanel, ...
There are built-in override capabilities in Zen Cart to prevent needing to edit some core files which would otherwise need updating.
Some of the commonly-overlooked override capabilities are listed here:
database_tables.php ...
1. Create your Music Genres
2. Create your Media Types (these are the allowed file-extension types you will use for uploading files)
3. Create your Record Companies
4. Create your Recording Artists
5. Create your music products ... be sure to select the "Product-Music" product-type from the pulldown menu when creating the product.
While entering the product details, you can select the Record Artist, the Record Company, the Genre, etc.
6. Create your media collections using Media ...
Although Zen Cart does not come with built-in accounting package integration, community members have contributed add-ons for specific packages. These may be found in the Admin Tools section of this site's Downloads area.
If you are looking for integration with ...
Salemaker is used to create a policy for reducing prices and then applying it to a group of (or all) products. You would use this to set up your 20% off January Sale ...
For downloadable products, there are several ways of delivering downloadable content to your customers, depending on your hosting configuration.
You can find these options in Admin->Configuration->Attribute Settings:
Download by Redirect
Download by Redirect ... when set to True ... uses the Linux/unix "symlink" ...
In Zen Cart v1.3.x and newer, it is possible to relocate the "download" folder outside your webserver's "webroot" (the public_html or httpdocs or htdocs etc) folder so that thieves cannot directly link to real files on your server and download without paying or being authenticated.
To do this, you must:
- Choose a download method of either "Download by Streaming" or "Download by Redirect" from Admin->Configuration->Attribute Settings.
If you're ...
- Choose a download method of either "Download by Streaming" or "Download by Redirect" from Admin->Configuration->Attribute Settings.
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