adobe contribute editing

i am wanting to use contribute to edit content on my local site before uploading to my server.
can anyone tell me what the ftp address would be for a local site
ftp.example.com does not work.
Has anyone used contribute on zencart and would it work?

The question is confusing.

You wouldn't need an FTP address for a site hosted on your local machine. Indeed you would need to have an FTP server installed locally to be able to use FTP there at all.

You probably would need FTP for connecting to your remote server, but the address for that would be something to ask you web host.

In both cases the answer is dependent on how your web servers have been set up, and nothing to do with Zen Cart.

when i am setting up my connection via contribute it asks for the ftp address.
i have a local site installed with xampp.

i have figured out the initial setup but i dont think contribute will let me edit zencart from a local host.
when connected to my site in contribute under edit the page is blank
so i think edit of php based site is not possible in contribute.

The issue that you're describing has nothing to do with the language that the site is written in and everything to do with the availability of an FTP connection to it.

Current versions of xampp do come with a FileZilla server integrated, but you would need to enable it and then to create an FTP account to use it (both of which are very straightforward).

However, this would still leave the question of why? Will this allow you to edit text in your language files directly?

how would i go about creating the ftp account on my filezilla server?

kuroi:

However, this would still leave the question of why? Will this allow you to edit text in your language files directly?

yes this would let me edit text, pics, links, banners and so forth.
if i can get this to work correctly that is.

To create an FTP account you would open your xampp control panel and click on the FileZilla admin button.

Then in FileZilla you would click on the user icon and "add" a new user to the list of users.

do you have contribute kuroi ? i would like you to see for yourself the ease of editing if we can get it to work.

Do you have Adobe contribute Kuroi ? if we can figure out how to get this to work it would make for a much easier edit.

I can't speak for kuroi, but I think you'll find very few experienced Zenners using WYSIWYG HTML editors for working with Zencart.

At any rate, the issues you're having mainly stem from your trying to use Contribute on a local Zencart installation.

3dsgiftsnThings:

yes this would let me edit text, pics, links, banners and so forth.
if i can get this to work correctly that is.
Only in a very limited way. Adobe Contribute is a sophisticated HTML editor and makes no claims to be more than that. If it did, Adobe wouldn't need Dreamweaver in its product rosta.

But Zen Cart is a dynamic PHP-driven application, with very little content held in HTML files.

So even if you get this working, and that should be fairly straightforward, there's hardly anything in a Zen Cart to which you could apply it.

i was actually thinking this very thing about there being very little that could be done with zen cart via contribute. but thanks for summing it up for me.

can you give me a list of the php files that i would use to edit the content on my site. or point me to a link where i could find this information.
Thanx again kuroi
good day

There are several FAQ articles explaining how to set up your own template.
Here are some to start with:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=132
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=142
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=143
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=230
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=36
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=38
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=39
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=231

If you have other specific questions, start with the search box in the FAQ area, where most of the more common questions are already answered.