Header.php and sales message

[ZanyZack]

Hello Everyone,
I have been working on editing the site and have found this forum and the tutorial to be very helpful. One point I am stuck on is editing the "sales message goes here" I have read how to edit it on the tutorial, but for some reason it won't change no matter what i do with the file. I did a search here and saw one person had the same issue, but no one had replied to it. Any ideas on what could be the problem?

Code looks like this from header file:

text   define('HEADER_ALT_TEXT', 'Powered by Zen Cart :: The Art of E-Commerce');   define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', 'Welcome to the FLY Store');   define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '192px');   define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '64px');

[charmedbytina2]

Hello Everyone,
I have been working on editing the site and have found this forum and the tutorial to be very helpful. One point I am stuck on is editing the "sales message goes here" I have read how to edit it on the tutorial, but for some reason it won't change no matter what i do with the file. I did a search here and saw one person had the same issue, but no one had replied to it. Any ideas on what could be the problem?

Code looks like this from header file:

text   define('HEADER_ALT_TEXT', 'Powered by Zen Cart :: The Art of E-Commerce');   define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', 'Welcome to the FLY Store');   define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '192px');   define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '64px');

1. Did you change the permissions on the file you are editing
2. Are you working with a copy of the file and placing it in the "custom*" folder accoring to the overrides system?

* custom = whatever your custom template is

Tina

[ZanyZack]

1. Did you change the permissions on the file you are editing
2. Are you working with a copy of the file and placing it in the "custom*" folder accoring to the overrides system?

* custom = whatever your custom template is

Tina

I have just placed the header.php file back into the /public_html/flystore/includes/languages/english/ section and doing a normal override. Is there another place I should place the file and/ or edit for my template?

Thanks for your time

[clydejones]

Check this article in the tutorials/FAQ section

www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=127

[ZanyZack]

I have tried and tried to figure it out with no luck. I edit the header.php file and then upload and overwrite it to /public_html/flystore/includes/languages/english/

I have placed the file in other areas as well and as the article states to place it in my template folder. /public_html/flystore/includes/languages/english/classic/

No luck any ideas?

[afo]

If you change the files in includes/languages/english/ or includes/languages/english/classic/, your changes will be overwritten (read GONE) with the next upgrade/update.

This list is a bit outdated, but it'll still serve as a guideline to creating your own custom template. To create a very basic custom template (you can build from there), you need:

• includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php
• includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/index.php
• includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
• includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/header.php (to change the logo)
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/template_info.php
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_header.php
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/images/logo.gif
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/stylesheet.css

Anywhere you see a /classic/ folder, you can create a folder for your custom template. You can copy the necessary files from either the /classic/ folder, the /template_default/ folder or the parent folder.

Edit includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/template_info.php to give your template identifying information so you'll recognize it in the admin under tools->template selection.

Alternately, you can look at the free templates available for Zen Cart at http://(sorry, site offline)/ and use one of them for your site or use one of them as a guideline to creating your own template.

[stevesh]

If you're:

1. Editing it properly (in a text editor).

2. Saving it to the proper override folder ( if you've selected the 'classic' folder in Admin - Template Selection, then you want it in includes/languages/english/classic

3. Making sure that the permissions are correct, such that you're actually sending and overwriting the file with your FTP clent

then it has to work, which means one of the above isn't happening.

If you post a link to your site, we can take a look.

Edit: afo is right, it might be wise to create your own template first.