TemplateMonster Price Issues... GRRR!!

[fightthefourwalls]

Hey everyone.

I have spent a solid week trying to sort this out and have had no luck. After reading things in the forums I wish I had used my hours and hours customising a native Zen Cart template than using at TemplateMonster template. Anyways...

On my product listing page (eg when i go into one of my categories) the prices are displayed on the right by the title and description of the product. I realise they are somehow using the tpl_tmfuncs.php file to gather the pricing information, and I find them very hard to customise (all I have wanted to do is change the color and line breaks). I managed to create a line break by modding the functions_prices.php file as there was no space or break between the specials price and the "Save 30% off" text. However when I modded this file it caused an extra line break in the New Products and Special Products pages (as they already had one).

Incase you don't get what I mean I have included screen shots...

Anyone found a fix to this or know what I could do to fix it? It is driving me insane.

Cheers,
Nick.

[fightthefourwalls]

FYI, the image with all the colored text is the product listing item (where I had to force a line break), the one without colored text is from the new items at the bottom of the page.

[stevesh]

Screen shots won't work for this kind of question, especially since you're using a TM template that few of us are familiar with, We'll need a link to your site.

[fightthefourwalls]

Ok, thanks anyways. I found more issues and got extremely frustrated so am now modifying the template_default into how i want it to look. It is surprisingly easy in comparison to a TM template.

Cheers,
Nick

[fairestcape]

Remember to configure a CUSTOM template system. Don't edit files in template_default and put them back there.

You must set up a custom template first. There's lots of advice in the forum and in the tutorials for doing this. This enables what ZC calls the over-rides system.

(If you edit core files without an over-ride system, future upgrades will be a nightmare).

[afo]

farestcape is correct. Save your changes using the override system. Please read the tutorials/FAQ about creating your own custom template https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?category=4.

If you're interested, there are free templates available for Zen Cart. You can see what they look like at http://(sorry, site offline)/.

[fightthefourwalls]

Yup I know about all that... been creating this site and learning about Zen for the past year. I have been making an over-ride website and keeping all the files that I have modified in there so when I do future upgrades it will be as simple as possible.

I looked through quite a few templates but none really caught my fancy. I know exactly what I want so will just modify the default template. I am about half way through my site already so am making a years progress in a day! Oh how times have changed. The discovery of Developers Toolkit about 4-5 months ago just helped immensely!

Thanks for the heads up anyways guys!

Cheers,
Nick.