Apple Zen Support Thread

[DerManoMann]

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

[DerManoMann]

Just to clarify the previous statement; the ZenMagick theme code will not work with the Apple Zen Template for the stated reasons.
However, it is quite possible to use the API without the theme code. All data access code is available in zen-cart templates like Apple Zen.

http://www.realwine.co.nz is a good example of a store that uses the zen-cart template files while still using ZenMagick to display some additional product data. Also, the features are driven by ZenMagick.

mano

[jettrue]

The screenshots are very helpful, but rather BIG. Would you mind resizing and saving over the really large one? Its really screwing with this page.

Anyway, the first thing I notice, is that the login form fields are too wide. Try opening up includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_login_box.php

and change:

size="24"

to

size="18"

Not sure if that will solve that specific IE6 issue, but at least it will solve the wide forms.

Jade,

You have been a huge help and please let me preface my question with my willingness to support your great doings by making a contribution to your work. Please let me know how I can send you a monetary donation.

My question is that I have been working on customizing your Apple Zen template and need some guidance in formatting. I have seen a difference in how the site is displayed using different internet browsers. Recently, I saw some issues with IE6. If you could please help me in correcting this issue, I would be greatly appreciative.

Also, I know the contribution is not yours, but I added the login sidebox and it seems that the input fields are causing the display to act funny. There is a screenshot of it included. If you know how to adjust the size of the text fields, please let me know.

Here are screen shots of the site when browsing IE6. The live site can be seen at http://www.gourmutts.com


Thank you again!

[jettrue]

Here are screen shots of the site when browsing IE6. The live site can be seen at http://www.gourmutts.com

Hi there, here are the answers to your other questions:

The store name is indented a bit from the address:
Not sure why it would do that, try defining the padding for the address tag, like this:
ADDRESS {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}


The create account area is moved all the way down the page:
That is addressed with this fix:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=315

The shipping radio buttons are not inline with the name of the method:
I think the fix above will also fix this.

The second step of the checkout process is moved to the bottom of the page as well:
Same fix.

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[cowgirl32]

I have tried uploading this templete and a few of the files will not upload the error message says:

"was skipped because the old remote file could not be deleted"

Am I trying to put this in the wrong place?? I'm just not sure what I'm doing wrong. This is the first template that I have tried and am getting a little flustrated with it. It can't be that hard

Any help or suggestions would be just great.. thanks!!

[jettrue]

I have tried uploading this templete and a few of the files will not upload the error message says:

"was skipped because the old remote file could not be deleted"

Am I trying to put this in the wrong place?? I'm just not sure what I'm doing wrong. This is the first template that I have tried and am getting a little flustrated with it. It can't be that hard

Any help or suggestions would be just great.. thanks!!

Well, this template doesn't override any stock zen cart files, so if you're getting that message, perhaps you are putting it in the wrong place? Or if you tried before, perhaps some of it made it up, and so its not wanting to overwrite? What program are you using to upload this? Can you check the remote files and see if some of the files made it up? There's a list of all the files in the readme.txt file.

[Doodlebuckets]

I am trying to figure out how to fix the problem you can see at the bottom of this page: http://www.modesty-matters.com/store...products_id=62

"Please choose" and the "Gender" lines are not where they should be. Can you tell me what to modify to get thse to line up correctly? Thanks!
Amy

[axip]

Alright, first off I want to thank you for this amazing template!

I only have one problem, I installed Zencart and then the Dutch language pack, everything was fine. Then I installed your theme en everything got screwed up(the menu's).

So I removed everything and re-installed Zencart and then your template.

Everything is running fine now, but could you tell me what to do to install the Dutch language pack aswell?

Thanks in advance,

aXiP

[axip]

I see there are a bunch of buttons and files that need to be remade to make this a a dutch template! I'm willing to do this if you can show me how

[Doodlebuckets]

https://www.modesty-matters.com/stor...ain_page=login

This page also has alignment that is off....
Amy