Still can't get.

[salib]

1) I have been reading very carefully KH's book, the Tutorials FAQ and the various discussions concerning how to create custom templates but still do not get it. what else I should read?
2) When the instructor says " copy the includes/templates/template_default/css directory" does it mean copy the whole includes directory upto the ccs file or simply copy the css file in that directory?
Thank you.
Alfred @ completely bewildered.

[kuroi]

If you have created a template called YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME, it means copy the directory (and all its contents) called "css" in includes/templates/template_default to includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME to create a new folder includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/css

[lat9]

I've found the chart provided by this contribution to be helpful: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=298

[salib]

Kuroi, Lat9
Thank you for your kind help.
What I have been trying to do is simply to ad my own header with logo, and have copied the custom folder, which is in the includes/templates/custom directory, and renamed it customwm.
In the customwm folder, I replaced header_bg with my own header_bg and log in the images folder and uploaded into /templates folder under the includes director as follows:
includes/templates/
and the same level in the templates folder:
custom
cumstomwm
CUSTOM_TEMPLATE (Japanese template kindly provided by SR Ward development)
template-defaulte
I have also changed template_info PHP as instructed in the book.

However, my customwm is not overriding the original custom folder. The only way that I could replace the original zen cart header and logo with my own header and logo was to replace them directly in the images folder in the the custom folder.
Why is the files in the customwm folder are not not overriding the original files in the custom folder?

My understanding is that if I modify directly any file located in the custom folder under templates in the include directory, they will be overridden when there is an update of the zen cart, and I will have to re-start all over again.

[afo]

Kuroi, Lat9
Thank you for your kind help.
What I have been trying to do is simply to ad my own header with logo, and have copied the custom folder, which is in the includes/templates/custom directory, and renamed it customwm.
In the customwm folder, I replaced header_bg with my own header_bg and log in the images folder and uploaded into /templates folder under the includes director as follows:
includes/templates/
and the same level in the templates folder:
custom
cumstomwm
CUSTOM_TEMPLATE (Japanese template kindly provided by SR Ward development)
template-defaulte
I have also changed template_info PHP as instructed in the book.

However, my customwm is not overriding the original custom folder. The only way that I could replace the original zen cart header and logo with my own header and logo was to replace them directly in the images folder in the the custom folder.
Why is the files in the customwm folder are not not overriding the original files in the custom folder?

My understanding is that if I modify directly any file located in the custom folder under templates in the include directory, they will be overridden when there is an update of the zen cart, and I will have to re-start all over again.

Yes, if you modify the files that came with Zen Cart, your work will be lost when you update/upgrade.

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.

[salib]

Thank you.


Please accept my apologies for being a little dumb
Very stupid of me, I must be getting hysteric.
In previous massage I should have written "classic" folder instead "custom" folder.

Yes, I have copied the classic folder (and not the custom folder) in the directory includes/templates/classic.
Please allow to rephrase again what I did:
I copied the the classic folder and renamed it customwm and in this customwm folder, I replaced header_bg with my own header_bg and log in the images folder and uploaded into /templates folder under the includes director as follows:
includes/templates/
and the same level in the templates folder:
classic
cumstomwm
CUSTOM_TEMPLATE (Japanese template kindly provided by SR Ward development)
template-defaulte

I have also changed template_info PHP as instructed in the book.

However, it does not work.

[gjh42]

custom
customwm
CUSTOM_TEMPLATE (Japanese template kindly provided by SR Ward development)
template-default

Are these all the exact folder names? A standard Zen Cart installation will have /template_default/ and /classic/ folders. Those will be overwrittten in an upgrade, but any other names will not. You may have a localization which comes with one or more template folders; what folders came with your Japanese installation? The creators of your localization may have a standard template name which you will need to modify to avoid being overwritten by a new localization version.

There are also other template folders you will need to copy and modify, in /includes/languages/ and possibly in /includes/modules/.


OK, first question already answered:)

[salib]

Yes, these are the exact names of these folders
Originally, there were only the classic and template_default folders in the templates folder in the includes directory when I installed the full set of zen cart ver 1.3.8a (12.11.2007).

The CUSTOM_TEMPLATE folder was added when I uploaded the Japanese language package, CKD-Zen-Cart-Japanese-Pack1.0-UTF-8, to the server.

After testing the newly installed zen cart, I wanted to add my header and logo and copied the classic folder in the templates folder and renamed it "customwm" and replaced header_bg and the logo in the images folder with my own header and logo hoping that it would override the classic folder, but it does it.
I though that I may have to use tools to select customwm, but when I did that only the header and the logo appear on the main page. I must be missing something important.

I though of copying the whole include directory and add customwm into the templates folder on the same level of classic folder in the templates folder and upload it to the server once again but I am afraid that I may damage the Japanese language template.

Any advice?
Thank you.

[kdays]

When you copied the classic folder and renamed it, did you also modify the file 'template_info.php'?

When you go to Admin > Tools > Template Selection do you see both Classic AND customwm?

[gjh42]

Did you make /customwm/ folders matching the /classic/ folders in the /includes/languages/ folder?
Do you get the Japanese text output? Have you tried selecting the CUSTOM_TEMPLATE template which came with the Japanese pack? Is that option available?