User greeting references duplicated

Hi.

I create a header.php in ../includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/MY_THEME/
with:

<?php
define('TEXT_GREETING_GUEST', 'Welcome <span class="greetUser">Guest!</span> Would you like to <a href="https://familynow.ca/index.php?main_page=login">log yourself in</a>?');
define('TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL', 'Welcome back <span class="greetUser">%s</span>! Would you like to see our <a href="%s">newest additions</a>?');
?>

Now when I enable Customer Greeting in the admin I get the greeting twice on the main page. I can figure out where the could is pulling that in the middle one. I see it in the html but where is it grabbing it from?

see here

Anyone?

familynow:

I create a header.php in ../includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/MY_THEME/
That's the wrong folder for the customized file.

If you're customizing a file found in /includes/languages/english/ then the correct place to put the CUSTOMIZED version of that file is in /includes/languages/english/YOUR_THEME/

Anything you put in the extra_definitions folder will be loaded on ALL pages, which is probably why you're running into duplicates.

Thank you for correcting that. I was following this[1] in post #4.

Unfortunately, it's still duplicating in the middle as before.

ref.
[1]
ZC forum post

Your custom template has added the code to insert that greeting on the top:```

	<div class="greeting">		Welcome <span class="greetUser">Guest!</span> Would you like to <a href="https://familynow.ca/index.php?main_page=login">log yourself in</a>?				</div>

And then the normal template is also displaying it where it normally does:
<div class="centerColumn" id="indexDefault">

I had already found that too. How do I remove it though? I can't find which file it's in.

Try searching your site's files for text that matches what's showing up in the source, such as:

class="greeting"

ref:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=38
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=39

Brilliant! Not certain why I can't remember to use the tool kit first...Anyway. Thank you!

The greeting was referenced here

includes/templates/THEME/templates in tpl_index_default and tpl_index_categories in case anyone encounters this.