Export Admin settings

[nVee]

Hey there

I find myself installing a lot of shopping carts lately and once installed, I have to change a lot of admin settings which I feel there must be a simpler way to do it. 99% of the changes is the same for each product e.g. (currency, location, payment options, shipping options).

Does zencart save the admin settings in a file like configuration.php or is the majority of these settings saved in the database? Is there a way to export your admin settings alone so that I can import it into a new shopping cart and have the work already done?

Kind Regards,
nVee

[fairestcape]

If you have C-Panel on your host account, you'll probably have access to phpMyAdmin.

Using phpMyAdmin, it's possible to export specific tables in the dbase, that you can use to "populate" identical tables in other databases.

It will require a basic knowledge of MySQL, but is not very complicated.

What I do is use phpMyAdmin to create a SQL export of particular tables (using the default export settings).

Then I save a copy of that SQL file.

Then I open up the second database and just use the built-in "delete" (drop) functions to firstly REMOVE the identical tables in that dbase.

Then I put the SQL from the original dbase into the Query input field and run the query.

This will upload the new tables.

Takes about 5 minutes.

You need to practice this on a NON-OPERATIVE shop, so if you foul up, you won't destroy your webshop.