Easy embed template

[DivaVocals]

Hi all...

Found myself here after trying, for a long time, to make my cart work through an iframe... yes, I read some of the previous post and witness the struggle and misery some people went trough with that..

I know this is the way to go but I have been trying to use easyembed2.0a, unfortunately without success....

I can make it point to the file I want and the cart will show in the div I selected for it, but when it comes to respecting the CSS that is part of the rest of the site design... disaster!

here is a link to the site:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/

this is how the cart looks for now:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/p...entials_store/

I want to keep the side navigation bar, the flash, on top, etc..

but when I embed the cart in the center region I set up for it.... all gets wipe out with the exeption of the bg color .......

Any suggestions will be welcome....

I could not get ver 2.0 to work either.. and it sounds like you had the exact same problem I did.. The template stipped away nearly all of the other HTML in the embed file. I resolved it for now by rolling back to the last good version that worked for me.. (ver 1.1) I know ver 2.0 has some distinct benefits, but I just can't get it to work.. I'm hoping Josh or someone else can shed some light on what we may be overlooking..

[pixels90211]

Does anybody know where I can get version 1.1 of eayembed?

seems that would be the one to use in my case...

[DivaVocals]

Does anybody know where I can get version 1.1 of eayembed?

seems that would be the one to use in my case...

It's still available in the downloads section.. http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=990

If you look through the three versions available it's the very last one..

[kychiropractic]

Quick question for all of you. Is it possible to use this in a .php page instead of an .html page? This template seems to be exactly what I have been looking for, but I wanted to check if their is any problem 'embedding' in to a php as my whole site is in php. I appreciate your time and assistance!

[sanguisdesign]

Quick question for all of you. Is it possible to use this in a .php page instead of an .html page? This template seems to be exactly what I have been looking for, but I wanted to check if their is any problem 'embedding' in to a php as my whole site is in php. I appreciate your time and assistance!

the fread function has issues with includes. But alot of other php will work. I have not tested the code in the repo however if you use that it may work with the URL method as that file would be preprocessed before it was turned into the template varable

[kychiropractic]

I appreciate your prompt response so much, and your service in developing this template which has made a daunting task, so much easier! Thanks!

[pixels90211]

Success at last!!!...

This is the site:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/

and this is the shopping cart:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/p...entials_store/

and that is how I wanted the integration to be from the begining.

I am using Zen-Cart 1.3.8 and easyembed2.0a
(yes, got it to work)

Ok,... now a recount of what I was doing wrong and hopefully this will helps others avoid the loooong hours of frustration I went through.

First, the file structure I had:

- Home page

- Exfoliant page

- etc, etc,

- pineapple_essentials_store (this is where zen cart lies)

- Frame-Cart page
(this is where I wanted the cart to show through)

I followed the recomendations in the forum but Nothing!
most likely my absolute paths were wrong....

Then, its kind of embarrasing to admit this but, I re-read the install instructions and realized there was a better alternative:

The new file structure that worked:

- Home page

- Exfoliant page

- etc, etc

- pineapple_essentials_store (this is where zen cart lies)

------------ Frame-Cart page
(this now resides inside the p*store folder)

in the easy_embed/config.php file I used this line:
$this->templateFile = DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'Frame-Cart.html';

and just to be sure I put my images, css and scripts folder for the Frame-Cart page inside the store folder too, just make sure the links in your header point correctly... an easy way to test this is (in my particular example) to type the absolute path:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/p...rame-Cart.html

and you see your page with all the css and images, etc. without the zen-cart.

after that you have just to start making changes to the relevant css files, and for this the BEST TOOL EVER!! is firebug (if you are using Firefox, of course) it will tell you exactly which line of css is doing what and from which file (the embed template or yours) and you can even change or suppress values to test results!

Just remember to keep in mind the info given in posts #322 and #327 and you'll be Ok.

JOsh, thanks again for a great module... I'll make sure you have "coffee and muffins" on me.

Thank you all,