Dreamweaver ruined my files!! Please Help

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Adobe has a BIG problem... ME

I use dreamweaver as an editor. I just downloaded the shopping_cart.php file, made one simple change to it, then put it back on the server. Then everything went blank.

It seems that, by default, dreamweaver inserts all sorts of white space when opening a php doc... it inserts a blank line after every line!!

Is the shopping_cart.php file something I can just copy from another cart? Or do I have to start over:lamo:

Just download the Zencart zip file, unzip it on your local computer, and upload that file to your site.

As you've learned, always use a text editor to edit PHP files.

I'm assuming you made changes to includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php. Did you save the edited version to includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/shopping_cart.php?

If you did, you can copy the original (includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php) back into your custom folder (includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE) and start over. If not, you'll have to get another copy of Zen Cart (or at least the shopping_cart.php file) and start again.

Alternately, you can open shopping_cart.php with a good text editor like Crimson Editor or Notepad++ and remove the additional white space. Both are available free on the net.

ALWAYS use a good text editor with php files.

Anywhere you see a /classic/ folder, you can create a folder for your custom template. Doing so will allow you to start over if you make a mistake AND your changes will be protected during an update/upgrade.

http://notepad-plus.sf.net

The edits were to the includes/classes/shopping_cart.php file. I did an undo on the edit that I made... but that did not remove all of the blank lines that were put in by DW.

I also tried copying the same file from another cart, and replacing the broken one.. didn't seem to work.

I'm nearly in tears!!

I can't believe DW does that!

It's probably gotten confused about line-endings, and it might be possible to change a setting in DW's FTP configuration to get around that problem. But the problem might really have been with whatever tool was used to upload the files to the server in the first place ... maybe the original upload was damaged, and DW is merely getting confused by whatever damage it's encountering. You might want to check whether the files on the server are already "double-spaced" somehow.

The cart was installed by fantastico.. and it worked until this point.

All I really need to know is:

Is the includes/classes/shopping_cart.php file one that is the same throughout all zen carts.. or did it get changed as I customized the cart?

/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php is a core program file, and is generally the same for all Zen Cart sites which share the same version number.

I'm not sure what you were editing or why, but in most cases you probably shouldn't have been editing that file in the first place. Most often one would be editing /includes/**languages/english/**shopping_cart.php if they wanted to change the text that shows up on the shopping cart page.

Thanks for the good news:clap:

My discounts are not adding up right.. I was advised to put a small amount of code in that file.

Now its saying:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php:3787) in /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 108

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php:3787) in /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 108

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php:3787) in /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/admin/includes/init_includes/init_templates.php on line 36

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php:3787) in /home/adtraffi/public_html/shop/admin/includes/functions/general.php on line 21

The domain is adtrafficbiz.com

Can anyone save my hyde?:blush:

Looking up the "headers already sent" error message in the FAQ area reveals this article: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=87

You've got extra blank lines at the bottom of your shopping_cart.php file, namely on line 3787.

YAY!!:clap::clap::bigups:

The file I was trying to copy over was from another version... I got it to work

Thank you all very much:laugh:

Rastabloke:

The file I was trying to copy over was from another version...
Oh. Ya, must use same version ... mixing versions of files is a bad idea.

Glad you got it figured out.