installing additional templates at localhost

[dancingbay]

Are you saying that you have kept the template folders inside your folder 'downloads'? If so then they actually need to be inside the 'includes' folder to work. All off those templates you listed have very thorough and professional install guides within the folders.

Actually the files are at xampp>htdocs>ZenCart>downloaded_templates which I plan to delete or move outside of the ZenCart folder when I get the templates installed. I just wanted them close so they wouldn't be too far to move and I could remember where they were . I'm 56 afterall and forget things. I'll go back and read better on the readme files, but mainly they were telling me where to put them on the live server and, though made since for a live install, didn't make a lot of since for a local install. I do use Filezilla and have for several years and several upgrades. I like it and am comfortable using it. I've sent them an email about this, but don't expect to hear back until Monday as most sane people don't work on the weekend if they don't have to.

As far as the choice of installing Zen Cart using cPanel / Fantastico as opposed to doing a manual install. I was planning on the manual install. I guess my point was that HostGator has Zen Cart on their list on Fantasctico which makes me thing that the settings at HostGator are set for an optimal install of ZenCart.

Thanks,
Alisa

[picandnix]

the folder structure is the same for local as it is for live, so basically copy and paste the include folder into the same level as your existing includes folder, then accept the box when it asks if you wish to merge the folder into the existing includes folder.
It'll literally take 30 seconds for the whole process.

[dancingbay]

I was able to merge 2 of the 4 templates. On the 2 with issues, I got this:

Destination contains a folder named:

• extra_datafile
• html_includes
• about_us
• index

Do you still want to merge this folder?

I clicked SKIP on each one and the NO at the end. Is that what I should have done?

Thanks,
Alisa

[dancingbay]

Guessing that I had at least 2 of the templates installed, I went on to try to change to the Alysa Rounded template.

I got an error on updating the sql. I tried browsing to it and also copy/pasting it into the box. On the second try (copy/paste into textbox), I got this error message: (WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again.)

I looed at the sql file, went into phpMyAdmin and found the inserted rows even though the my table was 'zen_configuration' and the sql in the file was just 'configuration'. Both records/rows were created in my db table. I'm assuming that the error message was from trying to insert the rows a second time.

The problem I'm having with it now is that the column on the left side that contains all the categories is not there. The wider column is centered in the white area instead of pushed over to the far right of the white area. Viewing source, the information is there:

<div id="navCatTabsWrapper">
    <div id="navCatTabs">
        <ul>
            <li><a class="category-top" href="http://localhost/ZenCart/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=1">Hardware</a> </li>
            <li><a class="category-top" href="http://localhost/ZenCart/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=2">Software</a> </li>
             ...
             <li><a class="category-top" href="http://localhost/ZenCart/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=64">Mixed Product Types</a> </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

but is not showing up when I try to view the page.

Have I missed something in installing this template properly?

Thanks,
Alisa

[picandnix]

have you enabled the various side boxes for the template layout? admin-tools-layout.

the best place to get template specific support is in the respective thread, very very well supported.