Missing left column

[Euonym]

Originally installed a "practice" cart (1.3.9d) and unfortunately, made changes to existing files and didn't add them to a custom folder. As i worked to migrate these files to a belated custom folder, I lost the left column and it is now blank. See:http://173.201.197.54/staffordshire-...php?main_page=

I tried to find the missing file by eye, memory and WinMerge with no luck. In that process, I did a clean install of 1.3.9f to compare to in the permanent home of the site. See: http://staffordshire-enamels.com.pre...php?main_page=

Everything was fine until I moved the database over, which seemed to go just fine except for the left column disappeared again (as did the ZenCart default home page), so the offending code seems to be in the database, and likely controlled by admin? The admin password also reverted to the practice one but that was a minor issue and easily solved, even though the admin shows the new username and password.

Can anyone send me in the right direction to get the left column back up? I've been spinning my wheels all week.

I am on GoDaddy, have installed Authorize.net module and added the Clone flat rate shipping. I also uploaded the main page php. That's about all I've done on the new site i think.

Thank you in advance.

[Celtic]

Euonym,

I guess the first place to check is in Admin/Configuration/Layout Settings and see if 'Column Left Status - Global' is set to zero.

[Euonym]

Nope. Here's the page:
Column Width - Left Boxes 150px
Column Width - Right Boxes 150px Info
Bread Crumbs Navigation Separator  ::  Info
Define Breadcrumb Status 1 Info
Bestsellers - Number Padding   Info
Bestsellers - Truncate Product Names 35 Info
Bestsellers - Truncate Product Names followed by ... true Info
Categories Box - Show Specials Link false Info
Categories Box - Show Products New Link true Info
Shopping Cart Box Status 1 Info
Categories Box - Show Featured Products Link false Info
Categories Box - Show Products All Link true Info
Column Left Status - Global 1 Info
Column Right Status - Global 0 Info
Column Width - Left 150px Info
Column Width - Right 150px Info
Categories Separator between links Status 1 Info
Categories Separator between the Category Name and Count -> Info
Categories Separator between the Category Name and Sub Categories |_  Info
Categories Count Prefix  ( Info
Categories Count Suffix ) Info
Categories SubCategories Indent    Info
Categories with 0 Products Status 0 Info
Split Categories Box True Info
Shopping Cart - Show Totals 1 Info
Customer Greeting - Show on Index Page 1 Info
Categories - Always Show on Main Page 0 Info
Main Page - Opens with Category 0 Info
Categories - Always Open to Show SubCategories 1 Info
Banner Display Groups - Header Position 1 Info
Banner Display Groups - Header Position 2 Info
Banner Display Groups - Header Position 3 Info
Banner Display Groups - Footer Position 1 Info
Banner Display Groups - Footer Position 2 Info
Banner Display Groups - Footer Position 3 Wide-Banners Info
Banner Display Groups - Side Box banner_box SideBox-Banners Info
Banner Display Groups - Side Box banner_box2 SideBox-Banners Info
Banner Display Group - Side Box banner_box_all BannersAll Info
Footer - Show IP Address status 1 Info
Product Discount Quantities - Add how many blank discounts? 5 Info
Product Discount Quantities - Display how many per row? 5 Info
Categories/Products Display Sort Order 0 Info
Option Names and Values Global Add, Copy and Delete Features Status 1 Info
Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF 0 Info
Site Map - include My Account Links? No Info
Skip 1-prod Categories True Info
Use split-login page False Info
CSS Buttons No

[Celtic]

I can see from your page source that you have the left column enabled.

I'm not however seeing a closing 'div' tag, so go and check your tpl_main_page.php - should be in includes/templates/[your template]/common/

About line 91 you'll see...

<?php
 /**
  * prepares and displays left column sideboxes
  *
  */
?>
<div id="navColumnOneWrapper" style="width: <?php echo BOX_WIDTH_LEFT; ?>"><?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory('column_left.php')); ?></div></td>

That closing div tag isn't appearing on your webpage, so there's something amiss there.

[Euonym]

Thanks for your help.

I changed the line in the new install to:
<div id="navColumnOneWrapper" style="width:"> <?php echo BOX_WIDTH_LEFT; ?>"><?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory('column_left.php')); ?></div></td>

with no change.

So I changed it to:

<div id="navColumnOneWrapper"> style="width: <?php echo BOX_WIDTH_LEFT; ?>"><?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory('column_left.php')); ?></div></td>

and no help there either. Noticed the right column has a similar syntax, so I pit it back.

Any other ideas?

[Celtic]

Both of the lines you've just given are incorrect.

Copy the line from what I posted earlier and put that in there.

[Euonym]

<div id="navColumnOneWrapper" style="width: <?php echo BOX_WIDTH_LEFT; ?>"><?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory('column_left.php')); ?></div></td>

right?

[Euonym]

Replaced the the line using the above line and it made no difference.

[Celtic]

Yep.

(Now I have to type something irrelevant 'cos that reply was too short to post!!!)

[Celtic]

Which website did you change it on, and what is the full path to the tpl_main_page.php that you edited?

You could try changing the name of it to: id="navColumnOneWrapper_TEST"

Then put it live and see if the name of the div changes on the website. If not, then you're not editing the correct tpl_main_page.