adding shopping cart image to shopping cart sidebox?

Hi again and again,
I want to change the Text Shipping Cart (more) to an image of a shopping cart. I have the image all I need to know is which file do I copy the code to. I read several Threads but did not find anythiong similar.
Thanks for your help,
Bob

RobertG:

Hi again and again,
I want to change the Text Shipping Cart (more) to an image of a shopping cart. I have the image all I need to know is which file do I copy the code to. I read several Threads but did not find anythiong similar.
Thanks for your help,
Bob

try this article in the tutorials/FAQ section

Am I suppose to add anything to this: my pic isn't showing up

$title = zen_image($template->get_template_dir(BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES, HEADER_ALT_TEXT);

the pic name is cart.jpg and is located in my admin/images directory.
Thanks Bob

Because that heading is also a link, it will still have the [more] after/below the image. You can redefine the text to blank, but then all other sidebox headings that have the [more] will lose it too.

Instead of manually editing PHP files for each sidebox, the easiest way is to install the Image Titles mod from Free Addons (link in my sig), and upload the image to /includes/templates/your_template/buttons/english/ with the filename boxhead-shoppingcart.gif.

Note: this is an old mod which I have not yet brought up to my current standards of flexibility. If you want to use jpegs instead of gifs, you will need to edit a file.
In /includes/templates/your_template/common/tpl_box_default_left.php, find```php
//image titles - box header image if file exists 2007-10-04
$title = (file_exists(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE . 'buttons/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '/boxhead-' . $box_id . '.gif') ? zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE . 'buttons/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '/boxhead-' . $box_id . '.gif') : $title);
if ($title_link) {
if (file_exists(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE . 'buttons/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '/boxhead-' . $box_id . '.gif')) {
$title = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($title_link) . '">' . $title . '</a>';
} else {
$title = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($title_link) . '">' . $title . BOX_HEADING_LINKS . '</a>';
}
}
//

the pic name is cart.jpg and is located in my admin/images directory.

Files in /admin/images/ will not be found by the storefront output code. If you are going to do the manual edit method, you need to put the file in the base /images/ folder, not
/admin/images/.

This looks good, but have you got a list of the names that we need to give the gif files for the sideboxes?

i.e. the source code for my language box is:

<!--// bof: languages //-->
<div class="rightBoxContainer" id="languages" style="width: 210px">
<h3 class="rightBoxHeading" id="languagesHeading">Languages</h3>
<div id="languagesContent" class="sideBoxContent centeredContent"><a href="[URL="http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/view-source:http://www.cadwyngifts.com/shopping_cart.html?language=en&number_of_uploads=0"]http://www.cadwyngifts.com/shopping_cart.html?language=en&number_of_uploads=0[/URL]"><img src="[URL="http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/view-source:http://www.cadwyngifts.com/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif"]includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif[/URL]" alt="English" title=" English " width="91" height="27" /></a>  <a href="[URL="http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/view-source:http://www.cadwyngifts.com/shopping_cart.html?language=cy&number_of_uploads=0"]http://www.cadwyngifts.com/shopping_cart.html?language=cy&number_of_uploads=0[/URL]"><img src="[URL="http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/view-source:http://www.cadwyngifts.com/includes/languages/cymraeg/images/icon.gif"]includes/languages/cymraeg/images/icon.gif[/URL]" alt="Cymraeg" title=" Cymraeg " width="91" height="27" /></a>  <br /></div></div>
<!--// eof: languages //-->
```What should I therefore name the gif file?

All sideboxes show their id at the top in view source:

so you would use boxhead_languages.gif.

Update: I am using the link you suggested "can I use an image for Sidebox Header. I put a copy of my Cart (cart.gif) into file includes/templates/Tte/images and uploaded to the server. I also had the same pic in base/images folder
I then went to includes/modules/sideboxes and in DEFINE_HEADING_SHOPPING_CART, <a href="http://30408.vws.magma.ca/TTEZENCART/images/cart.gif"></a>; I uploaded it to the server
I then went to my Stylesheet, and since I was only going to change the header on the right-side of the page I went to rightBoxHeading in stylesheet. This is what is there Now:.rightBoxHeading {
margin: 0em;
background-color: #3A558B;
padding: 0.2em 0em;
}
Now my problem is that I didn't understand the insruction of (background: url(../images/cart.gif)#ff6699.
I am not sure where and how i'm suppose to document the changes.
If you go to my site you will notice that on the right side colomn the lettering Shopping Cart is no longer there but the (more) is.
I need your help again, sorry to be such a pain.
Bob

That article gives an awkward method of doing the substitution, which cannot remove the [more]. Reverse what you have done and install Image Titles from Free Addons; this will automatically remove the [more] from the sidebox where you replace the text with an image.
Name the image boxhead-shoppingcart.gif and save it in
/includes/templates/Tte/buttons/english/. Done.

gjh42:

That article gives an awkward method of doing the substitution, which cannot remove the [more]. Reverse what you have done and install Image Titles from Free Addons; this will automatically remove the [more] from the sidebox where you replace the text with an image.
Name the image boxhead-shoppingcart.gif and save it in
/includes/templates/Tte/buttons/english/. Done.

WOW!!! Thanks so much for that! never though it would work after all that but it did!

Ive been searching for this and cant quite find the answer.
I want to know how to add the products images into the sidebox shopping cart besides the text thats just there.
So the customer can see a visual in the sidebox rather than just text.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks :)

It would require some PHP recoding of the sidebox files, to look up and incorporate product images. Not a big job if you are familiar with PHP.

im no pro...lol
but am willing to try if someone can give me a code.
thanks so much :laugh: