Tutorials/FAQs

The Zen Cart® templating system uses a CSS based layout.

In this article, CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. Change these if needed.

First, open includes/templates/ and create a new folder. You can call it anything you like, though it is best not to make it too long and to use underscores instead of spaces. We will call it /CUSTOM here, so everywhere we write /CUSTOM from now on, you should replace it with your own preferred folder name.

Create an empty folder inside your new template directory and call it images so you should have includes/templates/CUSTOM/images/.

Next, copy the includes/templates/template_default/css directory and place the folder and its files in your new includes/templates/CUSTOM/ folder.

You can also create the following ...

Zen Cart uses language files or a "languages system"  to define the text content used by the various display pages of your cart.

An obvious benefit of the "languages system" is the ability to run Zen Cart in another language or several languages at the same time. Using these files allows you to edit/change the text/content that appears on every page of your shop without needing to understand databases or programming languages.

The information in these files can be placed into four categories as follows:

Global information which contains text that is used across the entire site. This information is contained in includes/languages/english.php.

Page Specific information contains text used by individual pages in your cart. This information is contained in includes/languages/ENGLISH/???.php,

Your Own Definitions can contain text you might find necessary in your particular shop. This information is contained in include/languages/ENGLISH/extra_definitions/???.php

Complete pages are default pages used by Zen Cart and can be edited as necessary. You can also add your own pages if you find that necessary. These files are located in includes/languages/ENGLISH/html_includes/define_???.php.

The information in these files is constructed ...

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There are 3 parts to attributes:

• Option Name
• Option Value
• Attribute on the product

Defining Option Names:

Admin -> Catalog -> Option Name Manager

Example:

Color

a) Order (This is the sort order the Option Name displays on the screen.)

b) Select an Option Type:

• Dropdown (note when only 1 option value this will automatically be switched to a Radio Button and later when more than one value it will automatically switch to the dropdown)
• Radio Button
...

Some common attempts to probe your site for old vulnerabilities, or vulnerabilities from other systems, can be blocked by adding the following code to your site: ...

Blank pages can be caused by a number of things, and often occur just after installing, upgrading, or customizing your store. Any time you touch a ...