Apple Zen Support Thread

[jettrue]

Can you please help me out with this. On my product listing, the "Qty Discounts New Price" box is farther down than I would like it to be. I would like it moved up to be in line with the "Add to cart", in fact, if I could move the "tell a friend" button up as well, that would be nice too!

Here is a screenshot: http://enchantingdream.com/example.jpg

Here is a link to the page itself:
<http://www.enchantingdream.com/Testsite/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=240_250&products_id=4853>

Thanks

First, remove the margin:1em from the #cartAdd section of your stylesheet.

Then open up includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php and remove the:
<br class="clearBoth">

that is right before:
<!--eof Product details list -->

See if that's closer to what you'd like.

[duxfield]

Hi Jade,

I got your PM and based on your other responses this is what I've done:

- updated my tpl_main_page.php by using the file from thread #261
- removed <h1 id="indexDefaultHeading"> </h1> from my tpl_index_default.php.
- removed <div id="centerColumnOuter"></div> from tpl_main_page.php
- Added my background color to #headerWrapper in the stylesheet
- plus I fixed the spelling mistakles in my main image (doh!) and changed the highlight colour on the menu navigation.
- You might want to know that you have a spelling mistake on this line in menuheader.php as well:
define('HEADER_TITLE_DISCOUNT_COUPON','Discout Coupons');

This has fixed all my issues (thank you so much!) except the following:

- I still have a little bit of white padding between the main image and the bottom border graphic.
- On a lot of pages the text blocks seem to be tabbed to the right. For example if you go to the Shipping Info under Information you will see that the block of text is pushed over to the right hand side. This happens on most of the pages with text on them. Is this normal?
- During the checkout process, at the Shipping Method stage, there is some text that says "Your order will be shipped to the address at the left or you may change the shipping address by clicking the Change Address button." Thing is, I can't see any Change Address button anywhere on screen. Should it be there?
- I get the following error when I've added an item to my shopping cart then move to the Payment Method step:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method payment::in_special_checkout() in /var/www/vhosts/sixvolts.co.nz/httpdocs/shop/includes/templates/apple_zen/templates/tpl_checkout_payment_default.php on line 50

Perhaps this could be due to the fact I've loaded a Direct Debit module the other day. I've never tried to purchase an item from my shop until now so I don't know if its a recent issue or not.

The line in question in the error message has a comment about BEGIN PAYPAL EXPRESS CHECKOUT - don't know if that helps.

Hope you're not too overwhelmed by all our questions and thank you so much for helping me :)

P.s I'm using Zen Cart 1.3.7 - I've updated my signature with this info and my site url.

Thanks again.

[jettrue]

Hi Jade,

I got your PM and based on your other responses this is what I've done:

- updated my tpl_main_page.php by using the file from thread #261

You may want to download my lasted apple zen update in the download section and use the tpl_main_page.php that is in there. The one you're using isn't causing you issues now, but it might in the future.

- You might want to know that you have a spelling mistake on this line in menuheader.php as well:
define('HEADER_TITLE_DISCOUNT_COUPON','Discout Coupons');

Thanks! Doh, I didn't even see that. Now it is glaring at me.

- I still have a little bit of white padding between the main image and the bottom border graphic.

Try removing this padding:
#contentMainWrapper {
width:71em;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
padding:0 0 5px 0;
position:relative;
}

- On a lot of pages the text blocks seem to be tabbed to the right. For example if you go to the Shipping Info under Information you will see that the block of text is pushed over to the right hand side. This happens on most of the pages with text on them. Is this normal?

That issue is here:
.centerColumn {
width:73;
float:right;
position:relative;
margin-right:1%;
padding:1% 2% 0 2%;
text-align:left;
line-height:1.6em;
}

change the 73 to 95%.

- During the checkout process, at the Shipping Method stage, there is some text that says "Your order will be shipped to the address at the left or you may change the shipping address by clicking the Change Address button." Thing is, I can't see any Change Address button anywhere on screen. Should it be there?

Yes, there should be a change address button to the left of that text. It sounds like you have some issues with the checkout pages. Did you upgrade to 1.3.7 manually, or did you start with a fresh 1.3.7? It sounds to me like you have some upgrade issues.

- I get the following error when I've added an item to my shopping cart then move to the Payment Method step:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method payment::in_special_checkout() in /var/www/vhosts/sixvolts.co.nz/httpdocs/shop/includes/templates/apple_zen/templates/tpl_checkout_payment_default.php on line 50

Perhaps this could be due to the fact I've loaded a Direct Debit module the other day. I've never tried to purchase an item from my shop until now so I don't know if its a recent issue or not.

The line in question in the error message has a comment about BEGIN PAYPAL EXPRESS CHECKOUT - don't know if that helps.

Again, this sounds like someone running 1.3.6 with 1.3.7 files, so I'm wondering if you manually upgraded and missed some changes?

[duxfield]

Thanks Jade - that is really awesome. I'll try those other changes but guess what? My host actually installed version 1.3.6 of Zencart and the database is version 1.3.6 too so I expect thats the problem. Man I'm a bit miffed about that eh. So now I'll need to upgrade but I'm thinking I will remove everything and start again from scratch with a fresh install of 1.3.7 and then use your Apple Zen 1.5 version as well. I have all my customisations in a custom folder (I hope I haven't changed any core files). Do you think thats the best plan?

[jettrue]

Thanks Jade - that is really awesome. I'll try those other changes but guess what? My host actually installed version 1.3.6 of Zencart and the database is version 1.3.6 too so I expect thats the problem. Man I'm a bit miffed about that eh. So now I'll need to upgrade but I'm thinking I will remove everything and start again from scratch with a fresh install of 1.3.7 and then use your Apple Zen 1.5 version as well. I have all my customisations in a custom folder (I hope I haven't changed any core files). Do you think thats the best plan?

If I were early on in an install, yes, I would start from scratch with 1.3.7. If you have everything in a custom folder, that makes everything easier. I always seem to forget a file or two though, but its never too hard to figure out what it was that I missed.

Good luck!

[duxfield]

Thanks Jade - okay I shall start afresh The SQL database that was created by my web host provider can still be left in place though can't it? Or do I need to delete and re-create that as well?

I'm wondering if 1.3.7 has different tables etc that may give me problems if I use 1.3.7 with a database that has tables/data in it created by 1.3.6.

And do I just delete the root folder of Zencart and assume that will get me back to a fresh starting point to begin the install again?

[jettrue]

Thanks Jade - okay I shall start afresh The SQL database that was created by my web host provider can still be left in place though can't it? Or do I need to delete and re-create that as well? And do I just delete the root folder of Zencart and assume that will get me back to a fresh starting point to begin the install again?

1.3.7 has some database changes. If you haven't added a lot of products, I'd suggest starting fresh there as well. Yes, I'd start with all new files. It's up to you if you want to run the upgrade script, but I usually just start fresh, cause I'm anal like that. :-)

If you wanted to try and upgrade, here's the faq on the subject:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=98

[duxfield]

Yeah I like the idea of a fresh start cause I don't want any issues arising later so fresh install is the way I'll go.

Okay so to be really specific I should delete the root ZenCart folder (and all sub folders), and also delete the current SQL database and create a new one. Then install ZenCart 1.3.7 and Apple Zen 1.5 and then load up my changes again?

[jettrue]

Yeah I like the idea of a fresh start cause I don't want any issues arising later so fresh install is the way I'll go.

Okay so to be really specific I should delete the root ZenCart folder (and all sub folders), and also delete the current SQL database and create a new one. Then install ZenCart 1.3.7 and Apple Zen 1.5 and then load up my changes again?

Sounds good. You can just empty the sql database if you'd like, and that would save you some time.

[duxfield]

Yeah emptying the database sounds like a great idea...I'm a bit 'green' on that stuff as well. Will post back once I've got it all together again Jade. Thank you for giving such great support to your template