Easy embed template

[beggarsbones]

This was referred to me in the hopes of de-framing my website, as i understand they're pretty out of style and all around bad. the site is

www.beggarsbones.com
my cart is at beggarsbones.com/store

would this allow me to ditch my frames and leave the site as-is, or would i basically have to create a new site and then embed the store into it? i am new and totally nervous about moving big chunks of the site around... although its mainly the store part i dont wanna screw up! :)

[DivaVocals]

This was referred to me in the hopes of de-framing my website, as i understand they're pretty out of style and all around bad. the site is

www.beggarsbones.com
my cart is at beggarsbones.com/store

would this allow me to ditch my frames and leave the site as-is, or would i basically have to create a new site and then embed the store into it? i am new and totally nervous about moving big chunks of the site around... although its mainly the store part i dont wanna screw up! :)

If you wanted to keep the navigation in your top frame, while removing the top frame, then YES this tool will help you "de-frame" your store.. BUT this template is only part of the equation in "de-framing" your site.. This template will allow you to embed ZenCart so that your navigation appear above the store WITHOUT the frame.

However there is the matter of de-framing the rest of your site.. There are a few approaches for this. IMO the simplest would involve creating an include using your top navigation and calling this include from your other pages.. This give the same end result of your frames without the frames.. But this solution requires you to know a little bit of simple coding to pull it off. The solution requires some planning, and may require you to do a little research to learn some new stuff to pull it off..

[sanguisdesign]

ITA.. I looked into trying to embed Zen in Joomla using this template and had all kinds of issues.. So I opted for the option of skinning my ZenCart to match my Joomla site using this template to help make it look seemless.. Maybe one day someone really will build a Zen/Joomla component..

And maybe someday that person will be you. I have been thinking about writing a wiki article about how to make sang embed work for any project you wanted. but I have not had a chance to, as my paid work hass not been funding my free work enough latley.

JOsh

[sanguisdesign]

This was referred to me in the hopes of de-framing my website, as i understand they're pretty out of style and all around bad. the site is

www.beggarsbones.com
my cart is at beggarsbones.com/store

would this allow me to ditch my frames and leave the site as-is, or would i basically have to create a new site and then embed the store into it? i am new and totally nervous about moving big chunks of the site around... although its mainly the store part i dont wanna screw up! :)

if you wanted to continue having your menu being fixed in one on the top of the browsers you can mimic frames w/ css using the overflow property in divs mimicking frames.

Just a thought

[DivaVocals]

And maybe someday that person will be you. I have been thinking about writing a wiki article about how to make sang embed work for any project you wanted. but I have not had a chance to, as my paid work hass not been funding my free work enough latley.

JOsh

Yeah.. Except I'm not a coder, so the likelyhood of me building a Zen/Joom bridge is pretty much NIL! I'll leave the coding to the REAL code monkeys like yourself sir!

[fiddler]

Well, I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong.
All I want to do is "wrap" 4 graphics around the shopping cart, like a border.

I've installed the template - and it is showing in my ZenCart at:
http://tabbitails.com/cart/
I have the html file as shop.html - and shop2.html, both of which are in
/public_html/cart/includes/templates/sang_embed/common/
as well in the main directory.

(I know shop2.html doesn't "lay" right - and I've not even begun to touch the css, which will fix it, but I wanted to get the shopping cart to recognize the html first before wading in more.)

I have the following codes in the html file:
<!-- START EMBED -->
<!-- END EMBED -->
<div>
And I have the code:
$zc_temp = DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'shop2.html';
in the embed_config.php file
(btw, I've also tried these:
$zc_temp = /public_html/shop.html and
$zc_temp = /shop.html

I have all the files in the template folders where they are suppose to be -

When I access the cart, I see the template, and edit the shopping cart - it is just not communicating with my html file. I get no errors. I just don't get the graphics that are suppose to be on the outside of the ZenCart.
Argh! WHAT am I doing wrong - and how do I fix this?

[Website Rob]

I have the html file as shop.html - and shop2.html, both of which are in
/public_html/cart/includes/templates/sang_embed/common/

Then this should work: $zc_temp = 'shop.html';

If it doesn't then use a full path:
$zc_temp = '/home/username/public_html/cart/includes/templates/sang_embed/common/shop.html';

[fiddler]

Then this should work: $zc_temp = 'shop.html';

If it doesn't then use a full path:
$zc_temp = '/home/username/public_html/cart/includes/templates/sang_embed/common/shop.html';

Thanks for the suggestion. I am now seeing the graphics - but they are showing up weird - there are only 4 graphics, a top, right, bottom and left - but for some reason the top and bottom are "duplicated" at the top of the page, and the left and right graphics don't show up at all. well, at least I feel like I'm getting somewhere. Thanks. I'll post again when I get this thing solved. In the meantime, if anyone has experienced this sort of problem, please let me know.

[fiddler]

I'm still in need of help. I now have my graphics showing, but they are showing up twice or three times. I don't understand what is going on.

Here is my html file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Tabbi Tails</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<BODY BG############################## LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
<center>
<TABLE>
<TR><TD colspan=3 HEIGHT=34 ALIGN=center><img src="images/top.jpg"></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD></TD>
<TD><img src="images/left.jpg"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
<div id="content">
<!-- START EMBED -->
<!-- END EMBED -->
</div>
</TD>
<TD><img src="images/right.jpg"></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD colspan=3 HEIGHT=34><center><img src="images/bottom.jpg"></center></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The template can be seen through the browser at:
http://tabbitails.com/cart/includes/...mmon/shop.html

That is the only place I call up those images. I do not have those images on the stylesheets anywhere. In fact, I have left the original stylesheets intact.

You can see how the page lays out with duplicate/triplicate images at:
http://tabbitails.com/cart

The stylesheets can be found at: http://tabbitails.com/cart/includes/...ang_embed/css/
The stylesheets are 'style-2.css' and 'stylesheet.css'

ANYONE have any idea why these images are duplicating?

[fiddler]

Well, I managed to get rid of the images that were showing up three times on the page - but don't ask me how. All I did was a little html tweaking on the template, deleting a cell in the table that had no images in it. But the cart is still coming up with showing the entire html layout first, with an empty space where the shopping cart contents should be, then immediately below that the entire html layout is showing up WITH the shopping cart contents where it should be. So in other words, the template is showing up by itself, then correctly. Talk about screwy! What could cause this to happen?

I've tried deleting both the css stylesheets to see if they had any effect on the situation, they didn't. And the only place the images show up at all on the server are in the images directory of the cart.

The "improved" html layout is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Tabbi Tails</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<BODY BG############################## LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
<center>
<TABLE WIDTH=770>
<TR><TD colspan=3 HEIGHT=34 WIDTH=770 ALIGN=right background="images/top.jpg"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width=770 height="HEIGHT=34" /></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD><img src="images/left.jpg" WIDTH=67><img src="images/spacer.gif"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH=640>
<div id="content">
<!-- START EMBED -->
<!-- END EMBED -->
</div>
</TD>
<TD background="images/right.jpg" WIDTH=67><img src="images/spacer.gif" width=67></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD colspan=3 HEIGHT=34 ALIGN=center background="images/bottom.jpg"></TD><img src="images/spacer.gif" width=770 height="HEIGHT=34" /></TR>
</TABLE>
</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Still no ideas on why the template is duplicating itself before it implements the shopping cart?!