How to change the button label?

[zaira]

Hi!I'm a newbie. I got a problem on the buttons in zencart. I'm using Zen Cart v1.3.8a/v1.3.8. When you click on each product in the site , the prev, listing and next button all labell was wrong. Three buttons were labelled log-off but its functionality was not mess up. When you click the first button although it was labeled as log-off it still works as previous button and so as the the other 2 buttons. It's problem is only the label. How would i fix this?

Just an FYI, almost all label name of the buttons in the site were messed up. It was changed to "Log-off"

[rstevenson]

FTP into your server and check the contents of includes/templates/template_default/buttons/english/ (or your language if not english). You may also find this ../buttons/english/ folder in your custom template folder if you're using the overrides properly.

In the default Zen Cart 1.3.8a install, there are 47 button images in there. Do you have all those? If not, maybe they didn't get uploaded properly when you did the install.

Rob

[zaira]

actually, i tried to change it back to the default template and all its button label is correct. anyway, let me check what you have suggested. Im just not so fmailiar with this. The online store was already up when i get in. They just discovered today that the buttons were mess up.

[zaira]

Hi.. i checked the includes/templates/templatename/buttons/english

I only see one content the button_quick_find.gif. An image like magnifier. And I think this is not the one being called by the system to display.

I tried to view source the button and I got this

<div class="buttonRow forward"><a href="http://www.myshop.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=checkout_shipping"><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td><img src="includes/templates/templatename/images/az_button_left.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></td><td class="az_button_submit" style="vertical-align:middle">&nbsp;&nbsp;Log Off&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><img src="includes/templates/templatename/images/az_button_right.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></td></tr></table></a></div>
<div class="buttonRow back"><a href="http://www.myshop.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=982"><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td><img src="includes/templates/templatename/images/az_button_left.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></td><td class="az_button_submit" style="vertical-align:middle">&nbsp;&nbsp;Log Off&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><img src="includes/templates/templatename/images/az_button_right.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></td></tr></table></a></div>
<div class="buttonRow back"><IMG border="0" SRC="includes/templates/templatename/images/az_button_left.gif"><input class="az_button_submit" style="padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 4px;" type="submit" value="Update your cart"><IMG border="0" SRC="includes/templates/templatename/images/az_button_right.gif"></div>

Maybe the button label were just being override.

[rstevenson]

Interesting. Your code is looking for the buttons about two folders too high in the folder structure, compared to the current version of Zen Cart anyway. At this point, maybe the best thing to do is find where the buttons are and move them into the folder the code is trying to find them in. In other words, they should be in ...
includes/templates/template_default/buttons/english/
... and maybe they are, but move them to ...
includes/templates/templatename/images/
... and see if that fixes your problem.

If that helps a lot but causes other buttons to disappear, then maybe leave the full set of buttons in both locations. It won't hurt.

Can you supply a link to your site? I might be able to make other suggestions if I can see it myself.

Rob

[zaira]

this is the link of the site
http://www.aplusonlineshop.com/catalog/

the az_button_right.gif that was called can be found in templatename/images/ and so as the other buttons is here.

[rstevenson]

This appears to be a Template Monster template, or from one of their resellers. They make many fundamental changes in the templates which make it very hard to figure out how to fix them. You may have to ask your template provider for help.

Rob

[zaira]

omg! huhuh. okay thanks for your time and your help.

[schoolboy]

As Rob says, TemplateMonster Templates are known to be very different from the conventional zencart structure.

Rob also makes a good point with the images and their locations.

You can QUICKLY "fix" your problem by doing as he says...

... copy all the button images to:

includes/templates/templatename/images/

... so you have the images in a couple of locations - that's OK.

[zaira]

hmmm..I actually tried to inspect the source code using firebug. I see it that there is only one td class that was being called the az_button_submit. Then in the CSS it is declared there "background-image:url(images/az_button_mid.gif);".

It is just somewhat only one image that was being called and then the label will be changed. Images were not changing. It is not like the usual zen cart that every button has a corresponding image.