Easy embed template

**sanguisdesign** · 28 Jul 2006, 08:06 PM

HI there,
Though out last year I had developed an 'easy embed template' for Zen Cart 1.2.x.
All you had to do was define a template file for your site in the config, and through a long set of REGULAR EXPRESSIONS it would put what ever you had for the rest of your site around your zen cart. embedding it in in site of the master template.
Well for ver 1.3.x I am going to realease that code. this is the starter thread.
below I am going to paste all the expressions, please feel free to make any suggestions as, I stumbled through making them and could use the communities help.

JOsh

PHP Code:


//strip some duplicate tags that zen cart manages itself 

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/<!DOCTYPE.*?>/si', '', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/<meta.*?>/si', '', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/<html.*?>/si', '', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/<title.*?title>/si', '', $sitetemplate);





//Sangus: replace hrefs to point above catalog, but not the href for the style sheet! or http links!

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/href="/si', 'href="../', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/href="..\/..\//si', 'href="../', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/href="..\/http/si', 'href="http', $sitetemplate);



//replace last bits: img src

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/src="images/si', 'src="../images', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/<!-- START EMBED -->/si', '<!-- START EMBED -->', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate=preg_replace('/<!-- END EMBED -->/si', '<!-- END EMBED -->', $sitetemplate);



//creates bits for the had and the body

$sitetemplate_head = preg_replace('/<\/head>.*$/s', '', $sitetemplate);

$sitetemplate_top=preg_replace('/<!-- START EMBED -->.*$/s', '', $sitetemplate);



//replicats info fot the body tag atributes

preg_match('/<body([^>]+)>/', $sitetemplate, $sitetemplate_body_pre) ;

$sitetemplate_body =  $sitetemplate_body_pre['1'];

$sitetemplate_body = preg_replace('/images/s', '../images', $sitetemplate_body);



//strips the head info from the body

$sitetemplate_top=preg_replace('@<head[^>]*?>.*?<body.*?>@si', '', $sitetemplate_top);

$sitetemplate_top=preg_replace("@,'images/@si", ",'/images/",  $sitetemplate_top);



//strips the head info from the body

$sitetemplate_head=preg_replace('@</head>@si', '', $sitetemplate_head);

$sitetemplate_head=preg_replace('@<head>@si', '', $sitetemplate_head);

**bettysue** · 2 Aug 2006, 12:14 AM

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I really hate to sound lame, but after reading and re-reading your post - I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Nor do I understand what you're supposed to with the lines of code.

Any further info on what and how this works would be appreciated.

thank you,

Betty

**sanguisdesign** · 2 Aug 2006, 03:42 PM

fair enough.
I tend to murder written communication.
what this is is a template program that make its very easy to add a zen cart to and existing web site. this is more for people who already have a look and feel that they like, and just want to stick zen cart into the "content' are of their site and have it surrounded but the rest of their site.
In example. Joe had a site a/ a few pages on it and he has a pay pal style shopping cart that lists all his products and has the normal add to cart & check out buttons (ie http://www.estesjewelry.com)
say the client want to upgrade to zen cart but does not want to loose her current layout. this template would make it very quick and easy for her to install ZC and then have her lay out wrap around the zen cart that just replaces the pay pal part of her site.
I know that one can do this by just copying an pasting things into the tpl header and footer, but once you do that one can not rely on Dream Weaver template files any more and when ever a Graphic designer, (who does not care to know php) makes and update to the whole site the Zen cart does not get updated until a developer goes and cuts and pastes things in again.
so this template program takes one file that has a

HTML Code:

<HTML>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<lay out top>
<zen cart>
<lay out foot>
</body>
</HTML>

set up and does all the cutting for you it also will redirect their links/images to work in a sub directory, via the above regexps.

I hope this is clear now what the bennifit is.
I will post the code as soon as I have a the time to make and unbranded version.

JOsh

**Ajeh** · 2 Aug 2006, 04:44 PM

Looks like a PayPal site ... so what was gained here?

**sanguisdesign** · 2 Aug 2006, 07:05 PM

that was just an example of a site that had a paypal site, the rest of the upgrade was all for your imagination. sole of the site running the old embed template are.
llamafantics.com,
moosepaws.com,
delightsoftheearth.com,
hsrc.biz
cleverwares.com

the list goes on

JOsh

**bettysue** · 4 Aug 2006, 03:30 AM

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Thank you for the excellent explanation, I get it now !!

Sounds like a really nice addition. There are so many attractive eCommerce templates that currently cannot be used for Zencart. Hopefully this will enable us to give ZC a more updatred and unique look!

Thank you again for the explanation. Also, will you not be releasing the pre-1.30 version?

Betty

**Kent** · 22 Jan 2008, 07:15 PM

Previous to my earlier post: yes, I was pulling out the wrong hair. The path I had given was correct.

Actually, I had hit a snag when some fussy parser gizmo somewhere in the innards of the system didn't like the doctype declaration it found in my template store.html (that's used on the rest of the site pages) which caused it to burp out gibberish. When I removed such finery and my template doc started simply

<html>
<body>

why then suddenly I was a brilliant engineer and worth every penny again.

Thanks to Josh and all. This should be built-in to zen cart.

**Kent** · 22 Jan 2008, 08:35 PM

Well, I'm fired again.

It is finding my template, but I'm getting weird results and some images show up, some do not (though all are in the same directory and show up in the template file when it's viewed directly).

I'm seeing this when I view the source in my browser:

' . $sitetemplate_bottom);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerce</title>

Sigh. So near and yet...

**yellow1912** · 22 Jan 2008, 08:45 PM

How about having a look at this:
https://svn.rubikintegration.com/zen.../ytemplate.php

you can do something like this:
say you have the page contact us, you can have:
..........page header
file content is automatically rendered depending on the $_GET["action"] or can be set.
..........page footer

**Kent** · 23 Jan 2008, 12:21 AM

I just did a fresh default install of zencart, adding only the easy embed templates.

When I switch to the embed template I get

' . $sitetemplate_bottom);
?>

output to the very top of the page before the <!DOCTYPE... declaration. This happens if my store.html template is present or not.

So it's a dead end to me. I have no idea how to fix that.

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