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30 May 2008, 7:42 PM
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Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

Can I use Zen Cart as a template for my regular site or at least the CSS templates?

I'd like the rest of my site to use the same layout.

Also, how I change the Charset to UTF-8 site wide? Just do a search and replace or is it something deeper?

Thanks in advance.

30 May 2008, 7:47 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

What is the rest of your site??

Have you looked at expages for additional content pages?

They will have the similar layout

30 May 2008, 7:51 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

Rest of the site is informational pages ModelYacht.org.

Where is expages?

30 May 2008, 7:53 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

OPPS!!:oops: TYPO!

EZPages - admin > tools > ezpages

30 May 2008, 7:56 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

That' what I thought. EZ pages for 400 additional pages?

What about the charset change method, ok do it?

30 May 2008, 8:08 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

What about the charset change method, ok do it?
What do you expect to gain?

Default is latin-swedish - ISO_8859-1 and should contain all characters you could need that are in UTF-8 and then some

30 May 2008, 8:12 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

Charset change would allow Greek and other languages to display the corret characters. When I edit those files via ftp the get fouled using iso-8859-7 on the Greek language pages.

30 May 2008, 8:27 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

get fouled using iso-8859-7 on the Greek language pages
The above is not ISO_8859-1 - which is equivalent for practical purposes to UTF-8

Do you have a Greek lang pack installed? and does it require iso-8859-7?

UTF-8 is not iso-8859-7

30 May 2008, 9:57 PM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

Yes, I did have the Greek language installed I uninstalled due to the crazy character that resulted from FTP edits.

That pack uses ISO_8859-7

A peer recommended that he uses UTF-8 and never ran into a problem.

I did a lot of work translating the pages for my site it and I'd really like to use them.

Do you recommend the UTF contribution?

Thanks.

31 May 2008, 1:04 AM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

First BACKUP your Database and store locally where you know where it is.

If a live site - place down for maint.

open a COPY of the DB in an editor that can load large files

Do a search & replace for

CHARSET=latin1

Replace with

CHARSET=UTF8

Save and Import this COPY with your phpmyadmin "Import" function

See this to insure you perform a proper DB backup https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=103

31 May 2008, 3:58 AM
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Re: Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

Roger that. Will do in the morning.