How to Change "Home" to a different URL?

[dustbowl]

V 1.39

I've searched and searched the forums and tutoirals, but still need help.

How do you change the "home" on the top left corner of the zencart store to a different URL?
Of course this would also change the "home" in the footer?

I would like the header and footer "home" to go to my main site and not the home of the store.

I have a logo in the top and bottom of the middle section of the store that takes you to the home of the store.

I really do not need 4 links on every page to go to the home page of the store.

[gjh42]

Actually, you would need to change the header and footer Home links individually. They use Zen Cart's HTTP_SERVER and DIR_WS_CATALOG constants which you cannot alter without breaking the store. You can easily change the link code to use just HTTP_SERVER which will point to the base domain URL.

Edit /includes/templates/your_template/common/tpl_header.php and tpl_footer.php.

    <li><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">'; ?><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG; ?></a></li>

    <li><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . '">'; ?><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_MAIN_SITE; ?></a></li>

Then add a define to /includes/languages/your_template/english.php like

define('HEADER_TITLE_MAIN_SITE', 'Main Home'); 

[EmJayNaturalBeautiqu]

So just to clarify: I should replace the first PHP code (in your reply) to read like the second PHP code, doing this in both the tpl_header.php and tpl_footer.php files? And then I should add the 'HEADER_TITLE_MAIN_SITE' PHP code to the english.php file?? Two questions:
(1) *Exactly* where within the english.php file would I add the new define line?
(2) My includes/languages only includes one template folder called classic, and it only contains an empty.txt file. Does that mean that I can't make the change to the home link URL described in this thread?

Please advise. Thank you! :)

[gjh42]

Yes.
1) Add the define anywhere convenient, as long as it's between <?php ?> tags and not inside another define or a comment.
2) Any place you see a /classic/ folder, you can make a /your_template/ folder next to it. Copy the file (in this case /includes/languages/english.php) to /includes/languages/your_template/english.php and make your edits.

[gmartakis]

Hi
I having trouble with a simple transfer of a site into another domain. I want to have two sites work on the same server. the old site domain is www.flproducts.gr which I dont want to delete offcourse. Now the new one is www.pelagosmarine.gr.
I'm writing all the steps that I have been doing until now.
1) I downloaded the www.flproducts.gr site contents with the database as a backup.
2) I changed the configuration files both in admin/includes and includes.
3) Then I changed the sql file the SQL command to
DROP DATABASE `pelagos`;
CREATE DATABASE `pelagos` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
USE `pelagos`;
by simply changing the name of the database name because they cannot have the same db_name as they both are in the same server.
4) then I transfered the backup into the new dir and then I import the sql file through phpmyadmin. And the new site does not seems to work properly please see www.pelagosmarine.gr.

Please tell me what am I doing wrong here? It seems to be something wrong with the database but I cannot trace it.

[EmJayNaturalBeautiqu]

The thing that's confusing me is that the only template I've ever used is classic (I've not dared to incorporate a different template into my site settings). I'm using the original green default template that's standard for all new Zen Cart users. So I don't know why this folder only contains an empty text file when it apparently should already contain this english.php file. Hmmm...