No custom folder need to add One ?

[3601965]

Hi all, i am new to zencart and looking for some advice

I have inherited the zencart website its updated to 1.3.9dand it has the classic green template... minor changes, eg header image , royalmail shipping modules, new button set, uk counties, this is what i am aware of or the changes i can visibly see,

here is were the fun starts cause there is no custom folder, so could some tell me what custom folders and files i need to install so i wont lose the changes if i need to upgrade in the future
( yes i have used the search function and read the tutorial on creating custom folders) but i dont understand what files i need to put in them.

any help in resolving this matter would be great as i dont want to start again from scratch

regards
dave

[stevesh]

I'm assuming this is the tutorial you read.

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

If you've done that (created some custom template folders and selected that template in admin) you'll need to copy any edited files into the proper custom folder.

You're in something of a jam, since you don't know what files the previous owner edited, but generally I would copy all the files in the 'classic' folders to their 'custom' counterparts.

[3601965]

@stevesh
thanks for the reply,
yes thats the guide i followed , i also installed the folder structure that is mapped out here http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=298

like you say i don't know what files have been altered so which files do i put in my custom folders ?

do i need to move every single file that is in the classic folders into the custom folders ? inc images ?

sorry if i sound thick but i have never experienced an over ride system before

regards
dave

[stevesh]

Since you don't know what the previous administration changed, but the site works the way you want it to, I would find all the 'classic' folders and move all the files in each to the corresponding 'custom' folder. Two minutes using your FTP program.

[steve1965]

hi, thanks again for your speedy reply , just to make things clear in includes/llanguage/english i have folders and files like so

/custom (my new folder i made)
->/extra_definitions (folder)
->/html_includes (folder)
->images (folder)
->/moduals (folder)
account.php ( file)
account_edit.php (file)
account_history.php ( file)
etc (file)
etc (file)
etc (file)

do i copy all the folders and files and drop them direct into my custom folder

so it would show all the folders and files inside my custom folder

regards
dave

[stevesh]

I can't think of a circumstance where you would have folders in an override folder, so, no.

For example, you will have a includes/languages/custom folder, and an includes/languages/english/custom folder.

But you would have an includes/languages/english/html_includes/custom folder, not includes/languages/english/custom/html_includes

You really can't go wrong by creating a 'custom' folder everywhere you find a 'classic' folder and at the same level.

[3601965]

Hi Mate,
i not quite getting this for example i have a folder
includes/templates/classic

inside the classic folder is another 2 folders css/images

now in the css folder is
css_read_me.txt
print_stylesheet..css
stylesheet.css
stylesheet_css_buttons.css

now in the image folder is
header_bg.jpg
tile_back.gif

do i just take all the files from the css and image folder and put them inside the custom folder and not in folder like this

includes/templates/custom/css/images folders

so i would have a folder structure showing

includes/templates/custom and inside the custom folder the following files

css_read_me.txt
print_stylesheet..css
stylesheet.css
stylesheet_css_buttons.css
header_bg.jpg
tile_back.gif

is this correct ?

regards
dave

[3601965]

also the template is using custom buttons they are located in
includes/template/template_default//english

do i just put all the buttons in the

includes/template/custom

regards
dave

[Kenichi]

No, stick to the tutorial https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=142 for a custom template.

includes
   /templates
       /CUSTOM
          /common
          /css
             stylesheet.css
          /images
          /sideboxes
          /templates
       template_info.php

What custom folders (overrides) are for is to allow you to edit core/main files without them being wiped out in a future upgrade. For example, if you edit includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php these changes would be wiped out from uploading a fresh meta_tags.php in a future full-upgrade. If the coding of these files is changed in an update then it will be easy to compare.

As stevesh said, just add override folders everywhere you see "classic"

The *only* exception to this would be includes/templates where it's not really an override folder but rather your actual custom template.

[Kenichi]

also the template is using custom buttons they are located in
includes/template/template_default//english

do i just put all the buttons in the

includes/template/custom

regards
dave

If they're in template_default then they will still be read. If you have anything custom-edited (like your buttons) then move it to your custom template folder using same file structure.