Shopping cart issue

Fresh install with xamp.
Zencart 1.5
windows 7 professional
localhost
Aberdeen Neutral template

Shopping Cart - count_contents();?> item(s) - format($_SESSION['cart']->show_total());?>

I looked and found this problem in the forums but all I am told is to install xampp.
On my first install i compiled apache and manually installed php myself.
I uninstalled everything and then used xampp and the issue is still not resolved.

Any help anyone could offer would be great!!!

Thanks,

Dan

Estfis81:

Any help anyone could offer would be great!!!

Although your post may mean something to someone other than yourself, I (and probably many others) are sitting here wondering what your problem actually is.

There is nothing wrong with the code snippet you posted, and for all intents and purposes you could have pasted any line of code that may or may not be related to the problem, and which for reasons we are not aware of are apparently related to an xampp installation.

Perhaps if you describe the problem we can be of a lot more help.

Cheers
Rod

That little snippet of code is what pops up on the web page right next to my shopping cart.

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I have seen that people have had this issue before but installing xampp seemed to helps some of them but it didn't work for me.

I loaded zencart up today after installing xampp and installed the template TBsempre and had exactly the same issue. As I am new to php etc took me several hours to track down the offending script and correct it.

In the tpl_header.php for the template line 60 the code read...

                 <li class="shopping"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART, '', 'NONSSL'); ?>"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CART_CONTENTS; ?>   <purple>(<? echo $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents();?>)   <? echo $currencies->format($_SESSION['cart']->show_total());?></purple></a> </li>

I noted the missing php tags in the later section after the <? and changed it to

                 <li class="shopping"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART, '', 'NONSSL'); ?>"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CART_CONTENTS; ?>   <purple>(<?php echo $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents();?>)   <?php echo $currencies->format($_SESSION['cart']->show_total());?></purple></a> </li>

now this displays fine. You might want to look for something similar in the template you are using?

PHP 5.3 doesn't like the use of "<?". It requires "<?php" instead.

The only exception to this is if you've changed the PHP configuration to allow the use of "short tags". But that's disabled by default in PHP 5.3. I recall reading that they're going to enable it again by default in PHP 5.4.

Estfis81:

That little snippet of code is what pops up on the web page right next to my shopping cart.

I have seen that people have had this issue before but installing xampp seemed to helps some of them but it didn't work for me.

Dear your problem is solved? i am facing same problem!