Simple Zen Template - Support Thread

MB1:

got it now i'm curious if how you can disable the right side boxes as i only want them to be displayed on the main page

You can wrap the sidebox code in some new php to only be displayed on the home page. Open up includes/templates/simple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php and find:

<?php
if (COLUMN_RIGHT_STATUS == 0 or (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '1' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == '')) {
  // global disable of column_right
  $flag_disable_right = true;
}
if (!isset($flag_disable_right) || !$flag_disable_right) {
?>

replace with:

<?php
if (COLUMN_RIGHT_STATUS == 0 or (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '1' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == '') or ($current_page!='index' || (int)$cPath>0 )) {
  // global disable of column_right
  $flag_disable_right = true;
}
if (!isset($flag_disable_right) || !$flag_disable_right) {
?>

dharma:

Love your template! I am still on the fence about the footer links: being visible only on mouse overs. Is there a way to turn this off?

That's just a stylesheet mistake. Of course not intentional, LOL!

Open up the includes/templates/simple_zen/css/stylesheet_new.css and find:

#navMain ul li a, #navSupp ul li a, #navCatTabs ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0em 0.9em;
	margin: 0;
	color: #fff;
	white-space: nowrap;
	}
	
#navCatTabs ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0em 0.9em;
	margin: 0;
	color: #666;
	white-space: nowrap;
	} 

to:

#navMain ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0em 0.9em;
	margin: 0;
	color: #fff;
	white-space: nowrap;
	}
	
#navCatTabs ul li a, #navSupp ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0em 0.9em;
	margin: 0;
	color: #666;
	white-space: nowrap;
	}

thank you very much i got it working but it only worked after i changed one thing to the code out of pure luck, i change the 0 to 1 in this part of the code

(COLUMN_RIGHT_STATUS == 1 or

now if you look at my site how do you make both sides follow the same rules take a peak the right sideboxes are differant from the left the title isn't centered and the link color is wrong

https://www.gorillagear.ca

Jade, Great template and very good selections. I have a party supply business so I am looking for some obnoxious colors. Would it be possible to have a red, pink, or neon blue navigation bar? If I knew how to edit the .gif for the nav bar I would do it myself. Thanks,

Dan

DanAKAL:

Jade, Great template and very good selections. I have a party supply business so I am looking for some obnoxious colors. Would it be possible to have a red, pink, or neon blue navigation bar? If I knew how to edit the .gif for the nav bar I would do it myself. Thanks,

Dan

Sure... why don't you either PM me a link to your site, or email me a screenshot of your site colors, so I can get the right color? Or even send me a hex color code. :wink2:

Jade, Got the bright colors for the nav bar. Looks really good for my obnoxious color scheme. Maybe in a few days I'll have it ready for access so all can see. Thanks!

Dan

Okay I'll Cry Uncle! I would like to remove the link at the very bottom of the page. Not the copyright and powered by but the link displayed outside my store page. The link and box that changes frequently. Sometimes it says Zen Cart and sometimes Credit Card. I'm getting lost trying to find this. Could someone please point me in the direction of where this is located.

Dan

DanAKAL:

Okay I'll Cry Uncle! I would like to remove the link at the very bottom of the page. Not the copyright and powered by but the link displayed outside my store page. The link and box that changes frequently. Sometimes it says Zen Cart and sometimes Credit Card. I'm getting lost trying to find this. Could someone please point me in the direction of where this is located.

Dan

That sounds like a banner box. Go to the admin, then "Configuration", then "Layout Settings"... Toward the bottom you'll see options to turn off different banner boxes.

Thanks Again Jade. You were correct about the banner changes in Admin. Thought I had looked everywhere but apparently not.

Dan

Again, Great Template!:wub:

my issue is that some pages (with mods) have bullet points that appear in the left sidebox area (see jpeg) (only with Mozilla browsers, IE ok)

I need to have more space between the sidebox and the body, I can do this by increasing the size of the sideboxes in the admin, but I like it at 150px (tight to the left)

Is there a way to either make the left side box larger only on right side? or create more space between the left sidebox and body?

also........ I just installed ZC 1.3.7 are there any tweaks for SZ?, or are we good to go with SZ 1.3.6 on ZC 1.3.7?

Hi,

 I am new to this, so I hope I am posting this correctly. I love the template, but so far I am having a problem getting the topnav.gif to show up at the top of the page. In the space this should be showing I am showing 'Get your Baseball Stuff here'. That was what I had keyed in as a test when I was working on the Classic template. I believe I have my override path right: 

includes\templates\mysimplezen\english\simple_zen\english.php

 When I look at english.php, I see where the links are, but in my FTP Client, where  it says Header Sales Text Goes here, it is shaded gray, like it has been commented out. Any idea on how to go about getting the images at the top? Here is a link to the page:

http://web-host-design.com/eugene/catalog/

Thanks in advance,
Eugene

dharma:

Again, Great Template!:wub:

my issue is that some pages (with mods) have bullet points that appear in the left sidebox area (see jpeg) (only with Mozilla browsers, IE ok)

I need to have more space between the sidebox and the body, I can do this by increasing the size of the sideboxes in the admin, but I like it at 150px (tight to the left)

Is there a way to either make the left side box larger only on right side? or create more space between the left sidebox and body?

also........ I just installed ZC 1.3.7 are there any tweaks for SZ?, or are we good to go with SZ 1.3.6 on ZC 1.3.7?

Hi There,

That issue in your screenshot is actually an issue with the wishlist mod (I use it frequently in zen installs). Anyway, if you open up includes/templates/your_template/un_wishlist/tpl_un_wishlist_default.php, you'll see that at the top of the page it just has:

<div id="un"> <!-- begin (un) id for styling -->

It needs to be:

<div class="centerColumn" id="un"> <!-- begin (un) id for styling -->

without that "centerColumn" class, it doesn't indent like it should. You'll need to open up all of the un_wishlist files (there's a bunch, go to the un_wishlist_edit/ folder, un_wishlist_email/ folder, etc.

As for Simple_Zen and 1.3.7, it will still work, the only file affected is:

includes/templates/simple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php

and I'll add a post regarding that in just a bit, and update the download. :-)

jedbase:

Hi,

 I am new to this, so I hope I am posting this correctly. I love the template, but so far I am having a problem getting the topnav.gif to show up at the top of the page. In the space this should be showing I am showing 'Get your Baseball Stuff here'. That was what I had keyed in as a test when I was working on the Classic template. I believe I have my override path right: 

includes\templates\mysimplezen\english\simple_zen\english.php

 When I look at english.php, I see where the links are, but in my FTP Client, where  it says Header Sales Text Goes here, it is shaded gray, like it has been commented out. Any idea on how to go about getting the images at the top? Here is a link to the page:

http://web-host-design.com/eugene/catalog/

Thanks in advance,
Eugene

Hi Eugene,

Ok, what are you using for this template. mysimplezen OR simple_zen?

Also, the defines for that header image is not in english.php, its in header.php.

The override path, if you have used simple_zen as the folder names, should be:

includes/languages/english/simple_zen/header.php

Here are the instructions on using this template with 1.3.7. The template still works fine without these updates, but 1.3.7 added the option where you can turn the breadcrumb links ON, OFF, or OFF on the home page only (so there's no "Home" link on the home page). I had set this template to AUTOMATICALLY turn off the breadcrumbs on the home page, these changes allow you to use the new functionality fully.

Open up includes/templates/simple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php

1) ~ line 51, change this:

  $body_id = str_replace('_', '', $_GET['main_page']);

to this:

$body_id = ($this_is_main_page) ? 'indexHome' : str_replace('_', '', $_GET['main_page']);

2) ~ line 94, change this:

<!-- bof  breadcrumb -->
<?php if (DEFINE_BREADCRUMB_STATUS == '1' && ($current_page!='index' || (int)$cPath>0 )) { ?>    <div id="navBreadCrumb"><?php echo $breadcrumb->trail(BREAD_CRUMBS_SEPARATOR); ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<!-- eof breadcrumb -->

to this:

<!-- bof  breadcrumb -->

<?php if (DEFINE_BREADCRUMB_STATUS == '1' || (DEFINE_BREADCRUMB_STATUS == '2' && !$this_is_main_page) ) { ?>

   <div id="navBreadCrumb"><?php echo $breadcrumb->trail(BREAD_CRUMBS_SEPARATOR); ?></div>

<?php } ?>

<!-- eof breadcrumb -->

3) is actually not a change from 1.3.6 to 1.3.7, but it seems I left a chunk of code out:

~ line 109, find:

<?php
 /**
  * prepares and displays center column
  *
  */
 require($body_code); ?>

Right above that, add this:

<!-- bof upload alerts -->

<?php if ($messageStack->size('upload') > 0) echo $messageStack->output('upload'); ?>

<!-- eof upload alerts -->

That's it~

Hi Jade!

Thank for the wish list tweak, there is some other mod that jumps in the left sidebox too, (which escapes me now) but I will try that fix to it also, if it helps.

and thanks for the update to ZC 1.3.7!....You were already ahead of the game with the breadcrumb off on the home page!:flex:

Oh! There is a new button: "log off" in 1.3.7 can you provide a blank button and font info for making one of your fab buttons to go with SZ? As I also need a "delete" , "secure login" & "secure checkout" buttons...

Thanks Again!

Hi,

I use the simple Zen 1.8 on my Zen Cart 1.3.5 (German version). I want to remove the shopping cart/contact us/my account links from the header. So I comment the "Top Nav Links with Image and link only" in the css file out but the links are still there.

You can see it here: http://lm.teestube-online.de

Anyone an idea what I have to do to remove the links?

Thanks and greats

Christian

Christian111:

Hi,

I use the simple Zen 1.8 on my Zen Cart 1.3.5 (German version). I want to remove the shopping cart/contact us/my account links from the header. So I comment the "Top Nav Links with Image and link only" in the css file out but the links are still there.

You can see it here: http://lm.teestube-online.de

Anyone an idea what I have to do to remove the links?

Thanks and greats

ChristianHi Christain

The links are part of the HTML generated by your common/tpl_header.php file. The CSS section that commented out styles these links, so all you have removed is the styling rather than the links themselves. To remove the liks you would need either to comment them out in the tpl_header.php file, or you could hide them by adding the following to your stylesheet > #navMain {display:none}

Hello!

I am trying to fix a small bug on this mod in IE6:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55408

Would this section of the CSS effect it?

• {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

dharma:

Hello!

I am trying to fix a small bug on this mod in IE6:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55408

Would this section of the CSS effect it?

• {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

No. I'll explain the likely reason for the problem back in the other thread.

Hi,

I got my earlier problem fixed. I was simply not using the overrides correctly. My question now is, I would like to have my EZpage links show up at the bottom of the page. Right now, they can only be seen when rolled over. Where is the .CSS to make this change? I have seen two places mentioned, but is either one of these correct?

#navSupp and #navSuppWrapper

tpl_footer.php

 Also, is there a way to make categories and information line up even to the left?

 Here is my link: <http://web-host-design.com/eugene/catalog/>

Thanks,
Eugene