Don't understand. Where are the HTML files?

[Kolusion]

Not understanding Zen Cart at all.

Where the HTML file that I can edit? Such as the website TITLE, etc?

Wheres the layout markup?

[kuroi]

There are only two configure files, so hardly evidence of bloat.

Zen Cart is multilingual, so language elements such as the content of the title tag go in language files, rather than being edited directly in the layout markup. You'll find it at the top of the includes/languages/meta_tags.php file for the language you're using.

The layout markup is in the includes/templates folder.

[Kolusion]

How can I integrate Zen Cart into my current website?

[kuroi]

It sounds as though you're looking for a lightweight e-commerce plugin. Zen Cart isn't that. It's one of the most comprehensively featured application for building e-commerce sites and works best when it is the site.

However, it's not usual to run it alongside other best-of-breed applications such as WordPress. When that's done it's usually by styling both sites to look the same, and then having menu systems that cross back and forth between them, as well as deeper links between WordPress posts and Zen Cart products.

[Kolusion]

I see, do you know any free and open-sourced light plug-ins?

[kuroi]

That would depend on how you built your site. I'd recommend asking the most appropriate community for the app or approach that you used.

[Kolusion]

I used a text editor to build my site.

I am fascinated at how this engineering issue of mine can be accomplished.
Can I embed Zen Cart PHP into my current site? Would that work?

[kuroi]

Possibly. But would require a very high level of knowledge and skill in PHP and Zen Cart. Far easier would be to apply your design to Zen Cart's templating system as that was all the necessary hooks and processing (the difficult bits) are already in the right places.

[Kolusion]

Your absolutely right. But I've tried looking around and don't understand where to start. All I see is PHP files.

[Kolusion]

I guess what I'm looking for is converting my HTML/CSS website into a Zen Cart template. How would this be achieved?