Administration - Organization
This page attempts to explain the organization the Zen Cart™ application directory.
Within a Zen Cart™ installation, you will find the following directories:
- admin
contains many php files used to operate the back-end administration web interface to your store
- cache
contains cache files. Shouldn't need to mess around here.
- docs
Some basic documentation in html format.
- download
contains files to be served to customers when selling downloadable products
- editors
contains available rich-text editors used by the admin interface
several html files, which are templates for HTML emails.
- extras
this contains developer-use stuff the user need not concern themself with: permissions, curl testing and such.
- images
contains product/category/attribute images, basically all images not specifically associated with a particular template
- includes
contains PHP files used to operate the core of your store
- media
contains files used as media clips added to music products: normally short sample MP3 files
- pub
this folder is used for serving downloadable product files via redirection, so that customers don't actually get to see the real storage location of the original file, thus helping prevent theft of downloadable products
