Easy embed template

**sanguisdesign** · 21 Jul 2009, 03:17 PM

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First thing.. I am using ver 1.1 of the Sanguine template.. I CANNOT get ver 2.0 to work at all.. Ver 2.0 appears to strips out all of the HTML on my embed page, leaving only the Zen Cart code.. So I went back to Ver 1.1, which works just fine (once I made some tweaks to my embed page). So unless there is a reason I SHOULD be using ver 2.0, I'm gonna call this good..
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Reasons to upgrade.
Of you don't want the new configuration options your best reason to upgrade is speed/memory usage.
I totally rewrote the way the variables are stored/created.
in ver 1 the program read the template file and then with out much thought split up the template file in to several large variables which were then were spit out in the appropriate place with in the template system.
In ver 2 the template is file is read.
Then any overall path/element mods are made.
then instead of splitting of the template in to multiple static vars the template now only stores the main template var and spits out the sections on demand with no need to store them.

so there are your reasons. sorry I could not 'un geek-a-fy' the explanation

**Website Rob** · 21 Jul 2009, 04:19 PM

I recently had cause to once again use this Mod and decided to try the new 2.0a. Been awhile since I last used a previous version but here is an important Tip that I found.

The 'index' page used for easyEmbed ( that's how I spell it

) requires the following structure.

<head>

... custom Header stuff or just leave blank space

</head>

<body>

... custom Page Top stuff





... custom Page Bottom stuff

Even though it may look like invalid code for an Index page, actual output will be valid code.

**DivaVocals** · 21 Jul 2009, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Website Rob

I recently had cause to once again use this Mod and decided to try the new 2.0a. Been awhile since I last used a previous version but here is an important Tip that I found.

The 'index' page used for easyEmbed ( that's how I spell it

) requires the following structure.

Even though it may look like invalid code for an Index page, actual output will be valid code.

Yep.. even ver 1.1 works the same way.. Your embed page will "work" but it will fail validation..

Josh, I'd be happy to update the readme file accordingly and send you the updated readme.txt file..

**DivaVocals** · 21 Jul 2009, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by ##########################

Reasons to upgrade.
Of you don't want the new configuration options your best reason to upgrade is speed/memory usage.
I totally rewrote the way the variables are stored/created.
in ver 1 the program read the template file and then with out much thought split up the template file in to several large variables which were then were spit out in the appropriate place with in the template system.
In ver 2 the template is file is read.
Then any overall path/element mods are made.
then instead of splitting of the template in to multiple static vars the template now only stores the main template var and spits out the sections on demand with no need to store them.

so there are your reasons. sorry I could not 'un geek-a-fy' the explanation

Josh I totally appreciate the "geekdafied" explanation..

I would love to use ver 2.0 of this template.. However I went back to ver 1.1 because I could NOT get ver 2.0 to work at all..

For the example I posted a few days ago, ver 2.0 appears to strip out all of the HTML from my embed page, leaving only the Zen Cart code. So when you looked at the store NONE of my embed page headers, footers, or sidebars were displaying.. If I view the HTML source for the store, I could ONLY see the Zen Cart rendered HTML.. None of the HTML for my embed page is seen..

**pixels90211** · 24 Jul 2009, 08:26 AM

Hi all...

Found myself here after trying, for a long time, to make my cart work through an iframe... yes, I read some of the previous post and witness the struggle and misery some people went trough with that..

I know this is the way to go but I have been trying to use easyembed2.0a, unfortunately without success....

I can make it point to the file I want and the cart will show in the div I selected for it, but when it comes to respecting the CSS that is part of the rest of the site design... disaster!

here is a link to the site:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/

this is how the cart looks for now:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/p...entials_store/

I want to keep the side navigation bar, the flash, on top, etc..

but when I embed the cart in the center region I set up for it.... all gets wipe out with the exeption of the bg color .......

Any suggestions will be welcome....

**DivaVocals** · 24 Jul 2009, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by pixels90211

Hi all...

Found myself here after trying, for a long time, to make my cart work through an iframe... yes, I read some of the previous post and witness the struggle and misery some people went trough with that..

I know this is the way to go but I have been trying to use easyembed2.0a, unfortunately without success....

I can make it point to the file I want and the cart will show in the div I selected for it, but when it comes to respecting the CSS that is part of the rest of the site design... disaster!

here is a link to the site:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/

this is how the cart looks for now:

http://www.pineappleessentials.com/p...entials_store/

I want to keep the side navigation bar, the flash, on top, etc..

but when I embed the cart in the center region I set up for it.... all gets wipe out with the exeption of the bg color .......

Any suggestions will be welcome....

I could not get ver 2.0 to work either.. and it sounds like you had the exact same problem I did.. The template stipped away nearly all of the other HTML in the embed file. I resolved it for now by rolling back to the last good version that worked for me.. (ver 1.1) I know ver 2.0 has some distinct benefits, but I just can't get it to work.. I'm hoping Josh or someone else can shed some light on what we may be overlooking..

**pixels90211** · 24 Jul 2009, 06:04 PM

Does anybody know where I can get version 1.1 of eayembed?

seems that would be the one to use in my case...

**Website Rob** · 24 Jul 2009, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by pixels90211

I can make it point to the file I want and the cart will show in the div I selected for it, but when it comes to respecting the CSS that is part of the rest of the site design... disaster!

When using easyEmbed one must remember to include links to required CSS and JS files, same as you would for a regular page.

Refering back to my post #312 of this thread, you include the following in your easyEmbed - Zen Cart index page:

HTML Code:

<head>

<link href="_css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

</head>

Remember to adjust the path or, perhaps easiest when still getting used to easyEmbed, use an absolute link.

**pixels90211** · 24 Jul 2009, 07:38 PM

thanks for the fast reply.

Yes what you say makes total sense!

Now my dummy questions.... can't find "easyembed/index"

this is my file structure (I am testing in a local machine)

C:\xampp\htdocs\store\includes\templates\sang_embed\easy_embed

in that directory I only see config.php and magig.php

In the confing file (shown below):

[FONT="Courier New"] $this->templateFile= '/xampp/htdocs/Frame-Test.html';

//content modifcatactions:
#set values to true/false to modify unless other wise
# noted in for the value.
$this->options = array(
"stripMetaData" => true,
"stripDocType" => true,
"stripHtmlTags" => true,
"stripTitleTag" => true,
//path modifiers for links and images.
//by defualt the it is assume that the application running the easy embed templating system is in a sub diretory of a site
"linkPath" => "",
"imgPath" => ""
)[/FONT]

I tried linking to my CSS using the "linkPath" modifiers above
like so:

"linkPath" => "/xampp/htdocs/_css/Test_cart.css",

but nothing yet???

I know I must be doing something really dumb

**Website Rob** · 25 Jul 2009, 12:36 AM

If 'Frame-Test.html' is your Zen Cart index page, that is the file you put the information as shown in post #318.

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