Link directly to specific product or page

[renatooliveira]

i think i understand what you are trying to do,i having a hard time to with my site, but i'm inching along, lol.
here is wht i thank you got to do, go admin creat a catagory, add a product to that catagory, after you do that , just go to the product page on zen cart copy the url , go to your site get the text or pic of the product you want to link , creat the link and put the url you copied from the product page in zen cart, i did that for my links in my page out side zen cart,if you understand i hope it helps

[renatooliveira]

all so, you would have to creat a catagory for it product or a sub catagory,and get url link from the product discriptom pages, that way if somebody clik on the product on your site page they go direct to the product discription page of zen, where they will see the add to cart bottom and all other services strat from your main page , hope it helps

[renatooliveira]

now , jettrue you look like you know a lot about zen cart, i'm wundering if is there a way for me to change the "home link" on the the header of the main index page of zen to point to a page outside zen, wich is my html site home page , if any one have any idea please help, i looked all over, can't finde a way to do it

[JDR]

Well, I don't know much about zencart, but I do know how to do that.
Go to Incudes>Modules>Sideboxes>CustomFolder>information.php
Custom Folder is the folder name of your custom template if you have one.
replace the code for the home link with this
if (DEFINE_MAINPAGE_STATUS <= 1) {
$information[] = '<a href="http://www.discwritecd.com/index.htm">' . "Home" . '</a>';
}

Replace my website URL with yours and you can add as many links as you like that way. Hope that helps, John

[JDR]

One more thing. To add a link that isn't already listed in the information sidebox just add the link like this in the order that you want it to appear

$information[] = '<a href="http://www.discwritecd.com/about.html">About Us</a>';

That's all you need to do to add an additional link to the information sidebox.
Make sure to put the information.php file in a custom folder so it doesn't get overwritten if you upgrade zencart. John

[renatooliveira]

thakyou, it does help, avery thang i learn here helps, still too fresh in the zen lol.
But by what you told me , this link would be in the information side box, i'm trying to change the "home" link in the very top of just the index page "the very first page of the zcart.
But thank you for taking the time to help.

[JDR]

To change the link at the top of the page you edit the tpl_header.php file

includes>templates>custom folder>common>tpl_header.php

Line 73 looks like this:
<li><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">'; ?><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG; ?></a></li>

If you replace it with this:
<li><a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.htm"> Home </a></li>

And change "www.yourwebsite.com" to your domain name it will open your home page.
You might also want to modify tpl_footer.php the same way, so the link at the bottom of the page will be the same.

**Disclaimer! I am not a php programmer. I just fool around with this stuff until I get it to do what I want. You might want to talk to someone who really knows this stuff before trying this. There may be other files that need to be modified as well. John