Creating your own template???

[thestampnomad]

Afo said in an earlier post:
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"First of all, you shouldn't be changing anything in the classic folders. You should be creating your own template by copying the files you want to modify to a folder you create and making your changes there."
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I cant figure out how to do this (I mean how to make my own template). Do I create a new template and then go to "ADMIN- Template selection?).
Can somebodt explain to me a little more how this works and how to do it?
Thanks
DEAN

[kdays]

Here is the link to the tutorial for creating your own new template:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=142

It is really simple and well worth going through the steps to get to know how the template override system works.

If you need any further help, just call out.

[afo]

Basically, what you want to do is copy the file you want to modify into a folder you create. All the folders you create for your template should have the same name.

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 <- may not be necessary
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php <- may not be necessary
• 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 get a free template and use it as a starting point. You can see them in action at http://(sorry, site offline)/.