Glossary
From Zen Cart(tm) Wiki
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Admin
| The tool you should use for customizing the Zen Cart™ shop, and maintaining the catalog in your shop and process orders. This tool is webbased and resides on the same website as your shop. See also: |
| Catalog
| The products in your shop grouped in categories. You can change the catalog in the admin under menu catalog. Calalog refers also to the shop in your website. |
| Define page
| A text page which you can edit in #Admin for easily changing the text on some information pages in Zen Cart™. See also: |
| EZ-pages
| The EZ-Pages are easy to add and to edit pages. Store owners can create simple pages without understanding Zen Cart™ architecture just by using a web interface in #Admin. See also: |
| Footer
| The footer part of a Zen Cart™ webpage. See also: |
| GV Coupons
| Gift Voucher Coupons. See also: |
| Header
| The visible top part of a Zen Cart™ webpage which includes a website logo. See also: |
| Html_header
| The invisible part of the webpage where some properties of the webpage are defined. An example is the title of the website. In Zen Cart™ this is coded in the file common/html_header.php |
| Language
| In Zen Cart™ a language is a set of files grouped in one directory with all the text in one language. This construct makes it easy to download a language and install it in your shop. See also: |
| Main_page
| The center part of a Zen Cart™ webpage. This part is the largest and most important part of the website. In this part the catalog of the the shop will be viewed. See also: |
| Module
| A module is a set of files which are easily to download and install in your shop. There are three types of modules: payment, shipping and order total modules. For developpers it refers also to the include/module directory where php-related code of pages and sideboxes are (html-related code are in templates). See also: |
| Page
| See main_page definition. |
| Showcase (Showroom)
| A Zen Cart™ site that allows users to view products, but not purchase them. |
| Sidebox
| Box-like parts on the left or right side in a Zen Cart™ webpage. Examples of sideboxes are: a product category link box, search box, information link box. See also: |
| Template
| A template is a set of files which defines the visible properties of the website. When a template does not define a property the default template called template_default is the rule. Standard Zen Cart™ comes with one template beside the default, called classic. A template defines common properties for all pages or properties for just one page. These properties includes: buttons, (not product related) images ,css-definitions, javascript. Another meaning of template is template as template file. |
| Template file
| A file whose name normally starts with tpl_ and which contains the html-related code of pages and sideboxes (php-related code goes in a module file). |
| Template_default
| The default properties for Zen Cart™. See also: |
| Zones
|
There are two kinds of zones in Zen Cart™: |
