Overrides Not Appearing

[igendreau]

I thought I got the general idea of overrides, but here is what's happening...

I wanted to change the "Powered By Zen Cart" link in the footer. Did a search in the Developer's Tool Kit and found the page it's on:
includes/languages/MyTheme/english.php. It's the only place it occurs on my site, so that's got to be the file, right? I went in, edited the code and modified both the "Powered by..." text and the link to mylink.com. Then I copied my new english.php file over the existing one in the same directory.

When I fire up my site, nothing. Still says zen cart. If I search in the Tool Kit, there is no instance of mylink.com found. If I search for zencart.com, it finds that same english.php file. So I download it to work on it locally, open it in Dreamweaver, and sure enough... mytext, with mylink.com.

Is there something I have to do to "refresh" the site so it starts seeing these changes? I'm having the exact same issue changing the page title. I thought I understood the tutorials, I've changed the pages, but the Tool Kit is finding lines of code that don't exist anymore...

[stitchnkitty]

Have you changed your temples to your custom template in the admin?

[igendreau]

I have. The site looks just like my template, except when I make these edits, I get no changes showing.

The site is hosted on godaddy, and I am using their previewdns feature to view my site. I've never had problems with it before, but could that be the reason?

[afo]

I'm not familiar with godaddy, but check the site directly and see what appears.

Dreamweaver isn't the best program to use to edit php. Get yourself a good text editor like Notepad++ or Crimson Editor instead. Both are available free on the net.