Template Questions

[Serious]

I looked around for Primer on installing a new template and although there's a lot of info on making custom templates, I didn't see anything regarding installing a template downloaded from zencart.

Got the .zip file uploaded to my host, extracted and placed in the includes/template/ folder.

went back to my admin screen and selected the new template...

Now I get "The website cannot display the page: when I try to look at my site.

So do I just follow these instructions:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=142

Or is there another "How To" that I overlooked?

[rbarbour]

Got the .zip file uploaded to my host, extracted and placed in the includes/template/ folder.

Not sure, may just be a typing error but should have place the files in the /includes/templates folder

So it should be /includes/templates/CUSTOM_TEMPLATE

CUSTOM_TEMPLATE is obviously the name of your template

When you open the CUSTOM_TEMPLATE should have folders & ONLY 1 file named template_info.php

Hope this helps!

[gjh42]

Did the template come with a readme file? They are all supposed to. Well-constructed templates will have all of their files correctly organized under an /includes/ folder, so that you only need to copy the /includes/ and its contents into the root of your site. If there is another location to copy into, the instructions should say what it is.

It would be nice to have a tutorial on installing a template, but unless the third-party templates could be forced to all use the same method, it would not be applicable to some number of them.

[Serious]

Not sure, may just be a typing error but should have place the files in the /includes/templates folder

So it should be /includes/templates/CUSTOM_TEMPLATE

CUSTOM_TEMPLATE is obviously the name of your template

When you open the CUSTOM_TEMPLATE should have folders & ONLY 1 file named template_info.php

Hope this helps!

i did leave the S off of templates, sorry for the confusion.

Not a custom template, rather a downloaded template from this site.

Not sure it that changes your reply or not.

Did the template come with a readme file? They are all supposed to. Well-constructed templates will have all of their files correctly organized under an /includes/ folder, so that you only need to copy the /includes/ and its contents into the root of your site. If there is another location to copy into, the instructions should say what it is.

It would be nice to have a tutorial on installing a template, but unless the third-party templates could be forced to all use the same method, it would not be applicable to some number of them.

No Read-Me file.

This is what was in the Darkness_Template_1.0 .zip. file

Includes/Templates/Darkness

/Darkness contained:
Common Folder
Css Folder
Images Folder
Copyright (Text file)
template_info (php)

Common/
tpl_footer (php)
tpl_header (php)

CSS/
Print_stylesheet (css)
stylesheet (css)
style_css_buttons (css)

Images/
header_bg (jpg)
scr_tmplate_default (jpg)
tile_back (gif)

That's it.

no instructions of any kind.

I suppose if you've been at this awhile this would be a no brainer.
Unfortunetly I'm flyin' blind here folks.

[gjh42]

Well, even if it doesn't come with any instructions, it sounds like it has the full correct folder structure. That means you can, in your FTP, select the local template /includes/ folder and upload it to the folder where all of your Zen Cart files are located (/public_html/ or a subfolder, or whatever). This will drop all of the template files into the right places. Then check to see that you have in your server's original /includes/ folder a /templates/darkness/ folder and a /templates/darkness/template_info.php file.

[Website Rob]

You should not use the Darkness Template. It was designed for ZC v1.3.6 and I sure hope you are using a more recent version.