Second step in setting up your cart - templates

**chrome1** · 9 Apr 2010, 11:57 AM

Thank you for all the information. I am new to zen cart and am incredibly overwhelmed right now. I have a million questions which i'm sure will be answered in time. For now, I have a simple inquiry - can you install addons if they are in an earlier version than the one you have installed. For example, can I install an addon that was designed for version 1.3.6 if I'm running version 1.3.8?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

**kuroi** · 9 Apr 2010, 12:00 PM

You can, though there are risks. Some mods because of a combination of their features and good design can continue being used unchanged through many versions of Zen Cart after the one for which they were designed and tested. Others need to be updated for each release of Zen Cart.

Best place to find out about compatibility issues is the mod's support thread (though not all have one).

**chrome1** · 9 Apr 2010, 10:26 PM

Thank you Kuroi!

**FragaGeddon** · 29 Jul 2010, 04:24 AM

Sorry I didn't have a chance to read every post.

Well I pretty much got my store basically setup with a custom template. Besides the css file and I think 2 images, that's all I've added to my custom folder template. Now I have edited the default files, before knowing that they should be copied into a custom folder.

Now let's say I go to .\includes\languages\english and I want to edit create_account.php.
So after I edit the file, I should upload it to .\includes\languages\english\custom\.
This part I understand now. Any directory that has a classic folder, you should create your custom folder and put the edited file(s) in there.

But could I just put the file in my template folder under the proper folder structure so it would be like: .\includes\templates\custom\includes\languages\english\custom\?
It's be nice to have the edited files in one folder, instead of multiple places.

And is there any files that you may edit, that may not have a classic folder in that directory? Or is it basically any file that you edit, will have a classic folder?

Thanks.

**kuroi** · 29 Jul 2010, 10:05 AM

Files have to be placed in the correct locations or else they will not be recognised. So language files must go in the languages area, not the templates folder.

As Zen Cart is open source software you can edit any file. The template, module and language overrides are commonly changed and so have template-related overrides. However other areas can be overridden in different ways (e.g. the init_system files) where there is an override folder, or extended by use of notifiers/observers. Other areas that are very unlikely to need to be overridden so don't have an override system.

So as changes get more sophisticated and go deeper into the code there's less chance that there will be a classic folder associated with them, or even that that would be the right approach to overriding anyway.

**FragaGeddon** · 29 Jul 2010, 11:59 AM

Thanks for the info. Now if I could just remeber which ones I edited.

**RedDevilDistributing** · 9 Aug 2010, 10:44 AM

What am I missing here?

Ok, I found how to change the size of the left column to be a little larger as we have some category names that are longer. But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to make the whole page wider. While the column did adjust in width, the page itself did not....

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**lina0962** · 29 Sep 2010, 10:10 PM

I changed all my classic folder name to something else, based on experts' advice. But then I found information were missing under the "layout box controller" under the tool-admin, what did I do wrong?

where is template_info.php? which folder?

**clareclive** · 6 Jan 2011, 11:10 AM

Hi There

You seem incredibly knowledable!
We inherited our site last year and it needs a good tidy up, graphically and font wise, the actual working of the cart are fine, we have version 1.3.7.1 do you suggest we upgrade, if so how do we do this, can we start a new version whilst the old is still running? or could we just tidy up what we have some how, we would really appreciate your advice, we are complete technophobics, if you need to view to see what I mean www.alphafactor.co.uk

Kind Regards

Clare XX

**amillse526** · 9 Jan 2011, 05:40 PM

I just dowloaded Zencart. I am trying to create a custom template. I created a custom folder in:
includes, templates. I added folders: templates, template_info.php, header.php, images, sideboxes, CSS.
I see my folder on the server, but when in the admin section, I do not see if in the drop down box to select a new template.
Why is this?

I think my php is 4