Hello Peeps,

New to the whole zencart way of doing things. Currently hacking together a site and needed to delete the search box from the header.

Looked for an answer here on the forums and found several threads advising that you should do so via the admin panel. So I did. Worked a treat.

Was poking around my source code with bugzilla but noticed that turning off the search box this way still left an empty <div> in its place.

I don't like unnecessary markup hiding in my page so went about deleting it's reference from the tpl_header.php in my custom folder. Problem solved.

My problem is this - Many of the faqs / tutorials advise removing elements like sidebars / boxes / other elements via the admin panel. Does this mean I'll end up with more needless elements lurcking in the page markup? If so, would it be better just to hack the corresponding php files and dump them in my custom folders?

Hope this makes sense.

Regards

Mokijo