replace Empty cart message HELP!

[bremboy]

Hi there
I'm new to zencart as I guess you hear a lot and I have been reading your forums for a few of weeks now but have finally hit a problem I can't find a solution to. I have been building a new shop [first time] and would like to make this alteration.
when a customer clicks on the cart icon with no products in the cart it shows "your cart is empty" message now I can remove this but I want to replace this with an html header contained in an ez page similar to the ones used in other areas of my site and instead of having new products [or any products] display below I intend to have banners for each section of the categories. my initial problem is getting an ez page to replace the "CART IS EMPTY" text I know this is going to be a hack in the php code but I can't even find where to look
I've been through the developer tool kit section in admin but the phrase appears in so many pages I don't know which to start on.
any help on this would be very much appreciated I have looked through the forum and searched google but have not found any other posts in relation to this
I am using the latest build: v1.3.9f
and a free template Designed by 12leaves.com
the site is here but is not live yet so the home link does not work
www.firstaidglasgow.co.uk/index.php

Jim...

[kobra]

Learn about the developers tool kit to locate files

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=38
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=39

[bremboy]

Thanks for your quick reply and I appreciate the hint I found the file that includes the "your cart is empty" text and I can achieve what I want by butchering the original file [inserting html] but I would prefer to do this by calling a pre created ez page to display here unfortunately due to my non existent php coding skills I don't know how to do this. below is the else part of the if statement and it shows css id and a call to write the message defined in text_cart_empty which is defined in my template override
<?php
} else {
?>

<h2 id="cartEmptyText"><?php echo TEXT_CART_EMPTY; ?></h2>

I would at this point like to call a predefined ez page to display instead of the TEXT_CART_EMPTY however I do not know the syntax required to do this any help please

Thanks
Jim

[kobra]

Try replacing

<h2 id="cartEmptyText"><?php echo TEXT_CART_EMPTY; ?></h2>

with a standard html href link

<a> href="/index.php?main_page=page&id=your ezpage ID#"Text you want for the click here</a>

[bremboy]

Once again thanks I sorted it my method is a bit untidy but it will do until I learn a wee bit more about php.

1. I created a new file in html_includes
2.edited it in the admin area
3.and found a bit of code to call it from the tpl_shopping_cart_default.php

<?php include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "includes/languages/english/html_includes/define_empty_ cart.php"); ?>
at least this way I can edit it quickly through the admin panel if required but I have another query Oh No!! in doing this I have not used the override I tried making a folder using the path
includes\templates\template_default\templates\mytemplate
as the tpl_shopping_cart_default.php resides in the templates folder but it didn't seem to kick in should my custom folder be in the template_default alongside the templates folder ??

anyway Kobra
Thanks for your help and your time
on an unrelated matter while building this site I had to make a sql file of UK regions [zones] which are identical to the current paypal ones I could upload them might save someone an hour or three if your as slow as me

Jim..