Hey, where did my admin>configuration menu go?

Suddenly, when I hover over Configuration, all it has is "Logging", no other options? What's up?

I think that's a result of installing an addon designed for an older version of Zen Cart.

What exactly have you been doing since your menu last worked correctly? Trace back your steps and undo what broke it.

I've just installed a mod for extra More Information pages. It's got tentacles everywhere. Maybe I can try copying over just the Admin files it installed?

I'd start by putting back originals of any files it overwrote, and removing any files it added, at least on the admin side.

Have to admit, it's behaving strangely. Every time I edit includes/languages/mytemplate/english.php and save it, it reverts back all by itself.

Here's a power-tip for you:

You said you're editing english.php ... and I bet your CUSTOM english.php contains a whole lotta stuff you did not actually customize. The tip is that you can stuff into english.php only the defines that you customized. The system will read those first, and then go read the main english.php to get all the rest!

And the side-benefit of doing that is that you don't run the risk of it trying to do all the fancy crazy includes etc that the main one does at the bottom of the file. And it sure makes upgrades a ton simpler too.

And whenever you're installing a plugin that touches english.php, WALK WITH CAUTION ... because there's no good reason for it to ever touch the english.php file at all. All the language defines for a plugin should go into the extra_definitions folder instead. So if a plugin is touching english.php then chances are it wasn't written as friendly as it should have been.

Well the good news is that I copied over the new admin files and my Configuration menu is back :smile: but the english.php file is refusing to retain my changes. And now I've lost all my More Information page titles, not just the new ones.

How do people add more pages to v1.5? I've done a search but it doesn't look like there's a new mod.

Are you using EZ-Pages for additional content?

No, I've never used EZ Pages for some reason. Must look into it. I just installed ImageHandler for the first time (this is about my tenth zen cart) and now I get what everyone was talking about. A bit slow on the uptake sometimes...
And thanks for the tip re english.php. I'm a bit scared of PHP but I reckon I could manage that.

Just to finish the story, I painstakingly went through and removed all the new files, and everything went back to normal. I will always check in the future if a mod is compatible.

And EZ Pages, hey? Fantastic! Why did I never go there before? Thanks. :smile: