Abbington Mega Template [Support Thread]

On Installation Step 6: Recommended Admin Settings there are two PNG files missing.
http://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-demos/images/abbington_mega/product_listing.png
http://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-demos/images/abbington_mega/layout_settings.png

I would like to get my initial base setup done with the recommended settings before I start modifying for my purposes. Thanks.

Hi Anne,

Nice looking template. I am having issues which are hopefully due to me not reading well enough.

I was having the issues below but only discovered after several addins installed, so I deleted all files from the server and reinstalled as a default install.

1. Default install. No plug-ins except abbington_mega template. All Define Pages in Admin are blank. All the pages on the site have the default text. plain text editor. HTML editor not yet installed. It seems as the files being displayed are not the same as being opened in the editor. I just dropped the entire fileset onto the server.

Downloaded template from zencart templates but first line of template description is

This mod accidentally got deleted - would you please resubmit it? Here's the text you used:

Define pages editor in admin shows text as expected with Classic Green template. plain text editor.

2. menu bar, Information pulldown, Useful links is blank. I call myself following the instructions to make sure that all is fine but nothing shows up. No hair left for me to pull out.

TNX

scubasteve:

On Installation Step 6: Recommended Admin Settings there are two PNG files missing.
http://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-demos/images/abbington_mega/product_listing.png
http://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-demos/images/abbington_mega/layout_settings.png

I would like to get my initial base setup done with the recommended settings before I start modifying for my purposes. Thanks.

Sorry about that! Take a look now.

Thanks,

Anne

Hello,

I too would like to say great template!

I've read the tutorial on menus, etc...what I'm looking for is a way to create header menu content that redirects to an html file inside main_page. How do I change the links in the menu for example under "Information" "about us" goes to main_page=about_us. How would I go about adding new sub entries and pages they point to? (also just out of curiousity could you make both "about us" links point to the same? ie: Information->About Us is different from Header Menu "About Us".

Thanks.

mr80s:

Hello,

I too would like to say great template!

I've read the tutorial on menus, etc...what I'm looking for is a way to create header menu content that redirects to an html file inside main_page. How do I change the links in the menu for example under "Information" "about us" goes to main_page=about_us. How would I go about adding new sub entries and pages they point to? (also just out of curiousity could you make both "about us" links point to the same? ie: Information->About Us is different from Header Menu "About Us".

Thanks.

You can edit any of the links by editing the includes/templates/abbington_mega/common/tpl_drop_menu.php file. I am not sure what you mean about the about us links not pointing to the same page? In the template demo all about us links point to this page:

index.php?main_page=about_us

Which is the about us page.

Thanks,

Anne

RixStix:

Hi Anne,

Nice looking template. I am having issues which are hopefully due to me not reading well enough.

I was having the issues below but only discovered after several addins installed, so I deleted all files from the server and reinstalled as a default install.

1. Default install. No plug-ins except abbington_mega template. All Define Pages in Admin are blank. All the pages on the site have the default text. plain text editor. HTML editor not yet installed. It seems as the files being displayed are not the same as being opened in the editor. I just dropped the entire fileset onto the server.

Downloaded template from zencart templates but first line of template description is

Define pages editor in admin shows text as expected with Classic Green template. plain text editor.

2. menu bar, Information pulldown, Useful links is blank. I call myself following the instructions to make sure that all is fine but nothing shows up. No hair left for me to pull out.

TNX

Take a look at this thread and see if it helps you:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?192418-Blank-descriptions-on-EZpages-products-categories-define-pages

If you post a link to your site I can take a look.

Thanks,

Anne

TNX Anne,

Public display of definepages is fine. Admin display in editor is blank for all define pages except main_page with AbbingtonMega and AberdeenNeutral templates. Other templates (classic green, A modern zen, abbiani supremo) show the default text in the DefinePages editor. If an entry is made into the blank definepages editor, all of the default install text is replaced.

Don't know how seeing the public site will help since it is fine but the site is srevaewniahc*.*info with the stars removed

meanwhile, I'll read through the links you mentioned

Hi Anne,

I changed the references of utf8 to iso-8859-1 in 4 files. The only change that appeared to make any difference was the admin/includes/english.php.

Now abbington_mega appears to be functioning as intended. It just didn't make sense to me that one template worked and another didn't.

TNX for the help.

picaflor-azul:

You can edit any of the links by editing the includes/templates/abbington_mega/common/tpl_drop_menu.php file. I am not sure what you mean about the about us links not pointing to the same page? In the template demo all about us links point to this page:

index.php?main_page=about_us

Which is the about us page.

Thanks,

Anne

Hi Anne,

Thanks for the quick response. Did you mean the tpl_mega_menu.php file as I don't have a tpl_drop_menu.php file. However, this only has reference to the first menu item "categories". It looks like /includes/languages/english/extra_definitiions/abbington_mega/headermenu.php might be the file. So if I wanted to add a new menu item (link) to the Information drop down and call it "Test" and point Test link to main_page=testpage.html where would I do this?

What I was saying out the "About us" menu item is that on the drop down menu "About us" has the picture and some text (which is changable in the hedermenu.php file I mented above. However, in the footer section there is an "About Us" link that points to main_page=about_us that is a different page and contains this info:

Home :: About Us
About Us

ABOUT US Sample Text ...

This section of text is from the Define Pages Editor located under Tools in the Admin.

You can use either the language-file in /includes/languages/english/MYTEMPLATE/about_us.php or this file separately for this page or, you can use both together.

To remove the language file definition, do not delete the define statement, set it to be blank. Example: define('TEXT_INFORMATION', '');

I'm really just looking to add more drop-down menu items that point to pages I can create.

Thanks,
J.

To remove this section of the text (which you're reading right now), delete it from the Define Pages Editor, located under Tools in the Admin.

RixStix:

Hi Anne,

I changed the references of utf8 to iso-8859-1 in 4 files. The only change that appeared to make any difference was the admin/includes/english.php.

Now abbington_mega appears to be functioning as intended. It just didn't make sense to me that one template worked and another didn't.

TNX for the help.

I am happy that you figured it out!

Thanks,

Anne

mr80s:

Hi Anne,

Thanks for the quick response. Did you mean the tpl_mega_menu.php file as I don't have a tpl_drop_menu.php file. However, this only has reference to the first menu item "categories". It looks like /includes/languages/english/extra_definitiions/abbington_mega/headermenu.php might be the file. So if I wanted to add a new menu item (link) to the Information drop down and call it "Test" and point Test link to main_page=testpage.html where would I do this?

What I was saying out the "About us" menu item is that on the drop down menu "About us" has the picture and some text (which is changable in the hedermenu.php file I mented above. However, in the footer section there is an "About Us" link that points to main_page=about_us that is a different page and contains this info:

Home :: About Us
About Us

ABOUT US Sample Text ...

This section of text is from the Define Pages Editor located under Tools in the Admin.

You can use either the language-file in /includes/languages/english/MYTEMPLATE/about_us.php or this file separately for this page or, you can use both together.

To remove the language file definition, do not delete the define statement, set it to be blank. Example: define('TEXT_INFORMATION', '');

I'm really just looking to add more drop-down menu items that point to pages I can create.

Thanks,
J.

To remove this section of the text (which you're reading right now), delete it from the Define Pages Editor, located under Tools in the Admin.

Sorry about that! Yes, it is tpl_mega_menu.php. You can add additional links here.

If you read the readme.html file you will see how to edit the about us content in the drop down menu. If you are comfortable with php code you can call the content from the about us page to the header menu drop down so that it is the same in both places ;-)

Thanks,

Anne

Very nice template; the mega-menu is easy to customize. The text associated with the "Contact Us" drop-down is hard-coded in the template file and should be moved to a language file in a future release.

lat9:

Very nice template; the mega-menu is easy to customize. The text associated with the "Contact Us" drop-down is hard-coded in the template file and should be moved to a language file in a future release.

I am not sure what you are talking about. The contact us drop down text is in the language file using the constant TEXT_CONTACT_US ?

Thanks,

Anne

If you look in /includes/templates/abbington_mega/common/tpl_mega_menu.php, lines 243 to 279:

        <li class="contactus-li"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US, '', 'NONSSL'); ?>" class="drop"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CONTACT_US;?></a><!-- bof contact form -->
                       
            <div class="dropdown_2columns">
                
                <div class="col_2 firstcolumn">
                    <h2><?php echo TITLE_CONTACT_US;?></h2>
                    <p><?php echo TEXT_CONTACT_US;?>
		    </p>
                   
                     <div id="contact_form">
                    
                        <div class="message">
                            <div id="alert"></div>
                        </div>
                        <?php echo zen_draw_form('contact_us', zen_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US, 'action=send')); ?>
                        
                            <label for="contactname">Name<span class="required"> *</span></label>
                            <input name="contactname" type="text" id="contactname" size="30" value=""  /> 
                            
                            <br class="clearBoth" />
                            <label for="email">Email<span class="required"> *</span></label>
                            <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" value="" />
                            
                            <br class="clearBoth" />
                            <label for="enquiry">Message<span class="required"> *</span></label>
                            <textarea name="enquiry" cols="40" rows="3"  id="enquiry"></textarea>
                                
                                
                            <div class="form_buttons">
                            <input type="submit" class="button" id="submit" value="Submit" />
                            </div>
                        
                        
                        </form>
```The items I've highlighted in red should be in language files.

lat9:

If you look in /includes/templates/abbington_mega/common/tpl_mega_menu.php, lines 243 to 279:

    <li class="contactus-li"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US, '', 'NONSSL'); ?>" class="drop"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CONTACT_US;?></a><!-- bof contact form -->
                   
        <div class="dropdown_2columns">
            
            <div class="col_2 firstcolumn">
                <h2><?php echo TITLE_CONTACT_US;?></h2>
                <p><?php echo TEXT_CONTACT_US;?>
	    </p>
               
                 <div id="contact_form">
                
                    <div class="message">
                        <div id="alert"></div>
                    </div>
                    <?php echo zen_draw_form('contact_us', zen_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US, 'action=send')); ?>
                    
                        <label for="contactname">Name<span class="required"> *</span></label>
                        <input name="contactname" type="text" id="contactname" size="30" value=""  /> 
                        
                        <br class="clearBoth" />
                        <label for="email">Email<span class="required"> *</span></label>
                        <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" value="" />
                        
                        <br class="clearBoth" />
                        <label for="enquiry">Message<span class="required"> *</span></label>
                        <textarea name="enquiry" cols="40" rows="3"  id="enquiry"></textarea>
                            
                            
                        <div class="form_buttons">
                        <input type="submit" class="button" id="submit" value="Submit" />
                        </div>
                    
                    
                    </form>

I will try to include this in a future update.   Having the text in the tpl_mega_menu.php file is not effecting functionality at all on the front end and the fields are standard so this is not really a high priority bug fix.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

I will try to include this in a future update. Having the text in the tpl_mega_menu.php file is not effecting functionality at all on the front end and the fields are standard so this is not really a high priority bug fix.

Thanks,

Anne
Thanks, Anne. I just wanted to get this noted for your multi-language users.

Can you please make a zen cart plugin with just the mega menu to add to my site? Its something I want to do really long time and nothing is better than yours in this template!

lat9:

Thanks, Anne. I just wanted to get this noted for your multi-language users.

No problem ;-) Thank you for pointing this out to me!

Thanks,

Anne

soki:

Can you please make a zen cart plugin with just the mega menu to add to my site? Its something I want to do really long time and nothing is better than yours in this template!

I have actually been thinking about this and my get to this as time allows.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

No problem ;-) Thank you for pointing this out to me!

Thanks,

Annequietly raises hand :laugh:

I would be sooooo interested in this if you did it.. I have been quietly looking at how to grab the menu from this great template to use as a standalone menu..