Fixing CSS for text color

[rarpsl]

I just upgraded my ZenCart from version 1.38 to 1.50 and in the process some modifications and settings got backed out. I was able to get almost all of the settings and modifications reinstalled/corrected but I am having problems locating the remaining setting. I have looked through the code in the ZenCart folder as well as the settings in the Admin Screens but can not find the constant I want to change.

Here is what I need to fix so the Cart is back to the display it had prior to the update.

I need to find the CSS that is controlling the color of Category Name that appears above the Products List. It is showing as Gray not its old Black.

Old Version (Black Text)


New Version (Gray Text)

[lat9]

That would be

<h1 id="productListHeading">Lunacon Memberships</h1>

... so you'll either need to look for h1 or #productListHeading styling in your stylesheet.css file.

[rarpsl]

Thank You. I had looked in there already but did not find any color settings for either tag. I went back to the page and found that there was another style sheet that was being called first and IT had a H1 with c9c9c9 color setting. I updated my stylesheet.css (which was 2nd in the sequence) and added a color:#000000 to it which fixed the problem. When doing my prior research I never noticed the extra stylesheet being included and thus missed where the color was coming from.

I am now a back to my original display and I'm happy. Due to my ISP shutting down my account every time I use 1.38 (it had some virus code in the Zencart folder), I have to be careful of restoring the old 1.38 Zencart folder and using it to look at my backup database (which I created before running the 1.51 Database update). Since they only seem to do the scan early in the morning I might be able to sneak in during the day, use the 1.38 folder and the backup database, and see if I am missing any formatting that I forgot.

[lat9]

You could also make a copy of your database and file-system and use a local installation of XAMPP to do your 1.3.8a checking ...

[rarpsl]

I'll probably go that route. The problem with that is what encrypted password to put into the config.php file. If I just define the database and restore a .sql dump there is no way of knowing how to allow access.

[gjh42]

When you import a sql dump into your db in XAMPP, you can go into its phpMyAdmin and explicitly set the username and password. Then you can set the same for your local ZC installation.

[rarpsl]

When you import a sql dump into your db in XAMPP, you can go into its phpMyAdmin and explicitly set the username and password. Then you can set the same for your local ZC installation.

I was referring to the following two entries:

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', '*******');
define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', '*******');

The first I know. It is the encoded value for the second. Or do you mean that I do an new install of Zencart creating a new empty database and get the encrypted PW from it and then do the .sql restore which will delete the empty DB and restore my good copy?

[gjh42]

Correct. You need to create the database yourself, and you can set the username and password at the same time in phpMyAdmin. Then you install ZC, import your old db and run zc_install again to "upgrade" the db. The tutorials have full information.

[lat9]

Another trick for the local/debug version of your store is to create the files /includes/local/configure.php and /YOUR_ADMIN/includes/local/configure.php that contain the locally-hosted values for the controls -- e.g. define('HTTP_SERVER', 'localhost'); That way, for your local version you could just use the root user with no password for your database accesses.

The local configure.php files override the hosted versions present in the includes directory, so you can use the file structure from your hosted version directly. Just be careful that you don't mistakenly upload the local versions ... that's a server 500 error for sure!