Quote Originally Posted by jonisolis View Post
Jade, does your temple work with ZenMagick. Have you are anyone tried ZenMagick with the Apple Zen template. If so what are your thoughts on it?
It won't work with ZenMagick. However, it can't work with Zenmagick, as ZenMagick implements it's own way of generating templates. That means, files that reside under includes/templates/... will never be used by ZenMagick.

The main idea is that zen-cart template files are hard to read and modify, so it seemed desireable to have a better/alternative system.
In ZenMagick All HTML is easily customizable as it is in the template/theme files or in language files. There are a handful og functions that generate HTML, true, but they are pretty basic and designed so that tehy can easily be modified/replaced.

There is also no including back and forth between templates and modules or other code - it's all handled by ZenMagick in the background, so standard pages have all the information readily available.
The online demo has links at the bottom that allow to inspect the template code (the contents area of the page) and the main page layout.

ZenMagick also comes with a range of other goddies like:
* page caching,
* a (so far) simple product feature implementation that may be used for product comparison
* Ajax support,
* An object oriented API that provides access to most of zen-cart's data wherever you need it - ne need to cut&paste SQL :)

More information and documentation can be found at the ZenMagick homepage and the ZenMagick Blog.

Cheers, mano