Apple Zen Support Thread

[saplanet]

Hi there,

I am just starting up the shopping cart, and I wonder how do I add the newsletter subscription in the sidebox? does apple zen has that feature, and where can I find that?

thank you,
Lis

I have added the addons from the download, so this is solved.

[saplanet]

I have another problem now. I just installed the lightbox image handler, and everything works well, except that the drop menu is showing (laid over) the lightbox, how can I fix this to have the drop menu hidden behind the lightbox?

see example here: http://simpleartsplanet.com/shopspre...&products_id=1

Thank you

[saplanet]

I am having another problem, I have just installed the lightbox image handler, and everything goes well, except that when the lightbox is activated upon clicking on the image, the dropdown menu is showing overlaying the lightbox. What can I do to make the menu hide behind the lightbox when it's activated?

[saplanet]

example can be seen here:
http://simpleartsplanet.com/shopspre...&products_id=1

[jettrue]

www.doodlebuckets.com Can you take a look at my main page and tell me what is determining the font size and style on the main page text? I want it to match the rest of the site but I it's not. I take the code from the Define Pages Editor and put it in my HTML editor (NVU) and it displays properly there. So the style must be coming from somewhere else and messing it up, right? Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure WHY its doing it, but for some reason the table in your center content section is using a larger font size. So go to define_main_page.php in your admin under "Tools", Define Pages Editor", and change this:

<table class="" style="width: 614px; height: 783px; text-align: left;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">

To this:

<table class="" style="width: 614px; height: 783px; text-align: left;font-size:1em;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">

[jettrue]

example can be seen here:
http://simpleartsplanet.com/shopspre...&products_id=1

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...postcount=1998

[vivaraquel]

I think that you should use an external text editor instead of the zencart one. (you should use the override system and place the revised file in a folder with the name of your template alongside the original file)
You can first downolad the file (define_main_page.php in this case) with a free ftp client (filezilla is a good option) and then modify it with a free text editor (notepad is a good option).
Finally you upload the modified file with filezilla and you should have no problems.
Let me know if I can be of help.

i tried that and now my site is not showing correctly, so I wont be doing it that way. And I read about some download to use for editing text but it seems not to work properly eigther.

If anyone does anything different , let me know cuz although i love this template, the text editing on it is truly trying my patience.

Thank you.

[vivaraquel]

Great and I just dropped off some flyers for that site today ...... no early night for me.

[vivaraquel]

Ok, I am trying not to freeak out but it's getting hard. In admin > tools > define pages editor ... there is no pages to edit!!

How this ocurred I don't know, I only just did what flax suggested with the define_main_page.php and I used an override folder which I deleted when I noticed the page was stuffed but it still didint fix it.

So I uploaded the original file but this hasnt fixed it eigther. Suggestions?

[molywerks]

i tried that and now my site is not showing correctly, so I wont be doing it that way. And I read about some download to use for editing text but it seems not to work properly eigther.

If anyone does anything different , let me know cuz although i love this template, the text editing on it is truly trying my patience.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, I do not believe it has anything to do with the text editor or ftp. When ever you're trying out new tools, proceed with extreme patience until you better understand your tools and any new methods. You may have borked something while getting used to the text editor and/or filezilla.

FWIW, I use jujuedit for my text editor, WinMerge for folder/file compare and contrast, and CuteFTP Pro (@ $60) for uploading/download files to and from the server.

Other tools I find handy are:

• HTML Search and Replace, $20, for searching for text across all my mods and zen cart core code. It does mass search and replace into wildcarded files and into subfolders. FWIW, I purchased a copy and love it!
• AllFileRenamer, renames files with a variety of options, including subfolders. I've used this for a couple of years.
• FileRenamer has a great variety of options and is incredibly powerful, free, $20 gets you UNDO and subfolder capabilities, which is all that I have been missing, plus other features, I think, but I don't know for sure because for subfolders, I use AllFileRenamer.

Ok, I am trying not to freeak out but it's getting hard. In admin > tools > define pages editor ... there is no pages to edit!!

How this ocurred I don't know, I only just did what flax suggested with the define_main_page.php and I used an override folder which I deleted when I noticed the page was stuffed but it still didint fix it.

So I uploaded the original file but this hasnt fixed it eigther. Suggestions?

I seem to recall having this problem only one or two files were uploaded. Try uploading all the zen default files (see below) and whatever you've edited to [FONT="Courier New"]/includes/languages/english/html_includes/apple_zen/[/FONT]. Or if you've not edited any files in your admin folder, upload a fresh copy of zen-cart_1.3.8a/admin. Naturally, substitute your version fo 1.3.8a if necessary. One or the other or both ought to fix the problem.

1. define_checkout_success.php
2. define_conditions.php
3. define_contact_us.php
4. define_discount_coupon.php
5. define_main_page.php
6. define_page_2.php
7. define_page_3.php
8. define_page_4.php
9. define_page_not_found.php
10. define_privacy.php
11. define_shippinginfo.php
12. define_site_map.php

Also, make sure you've selected Apple Zen as your theme via Admin > Tools > Template Selection. I seem to recall having some trouble their once. Looks like Apple Zen is selected but something is munged. I uploaded a fresh copy of Apple Zen, selected and verified it, and then uploaded my hacks.