Blog Integration Contribution

The Zen Cart Blog Integration Contribution, which allows you to integrate your blog or any RSS feed into your cart, is now available in the download area here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1029

Detailed help on this module is available on my site:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_blog_integration.html

Zen Cart Blog Integration uses the CaRP utility, developed by Gecko Tribe, LLC. It is distributed with the starter edition of CaRP, with instructions for upgrading to the full edition if more features are desired.

An example of what the contribution looks like when installed in a cart is provided here:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/swguy_demo_1.3.7/index.php?main_page=blog

Good luck,
That Software Guy

question for ya - please check out:

http://www.heartsandlaserbeams.com//index.php?main_page=page_4

i've been using this blogger account for 6 years and would love to keep all of it together - have carp evolution installed and for some reason i can't get the comments to come up! is there a way to have comments on here or do i have to switch to wordpress?

thanks so much!

The trouble is, the comment feed is separate from the post feed. Not sure how you could integrate these. But take a look at some of Anthony's documentation - he may have fixed this (there's a link in the README).

I'm really trying to install my blog into my cart, but it seem as if I am getting stuck at process#4

Load carpsetup.php in your web browser. For example, if you uploaded it to "/home/joe/public_html/carpsetup.php" and your website address is http://www.webhost.com/~joe/, load http://www.webhost.com/~joe/carpsetup.php in your web browser.

The CaRP Setup Assistant page unloads, and I put my location where the file is located, but I keep getting: I was unable to find carpsetupinc.php in the directory /home/divabou/public_html/store/carpsetup.php. Please enter the path to the directory containing carpsetupinc.php below.

NOTES:

• Depending on your server's configuration, the directory path may look different to me that it does when you log in to your server. The path to this file (carpsetup.php) as I see it is /home/divabou/public_html/store/carpsetup.php. Please take that into account when entering the path above.
• If you see an error message about a safe mode violation, you may need to move the carp directory into your web directory.I enter the correct location but I am not taken any further?
  
  Can someone help me with this installment
  

My problem with step 4 is that when I point my browser in my case to
http://taogem.com/taogemst_myzencart/carp/carpsetup.php

I am taken to my blog with is my main domain not the zencart_zen (my ZC store), and it is a 404 error page.

help?

I don't know what it means, but the following is what I get when I try to point a IE browser to the above link instead of FF

"Your search - http://taogem.com/taogemst_myzencart/carp/carpsetup.php - did not match any documents".

If anyone is following along and reading the past posts?

I fixed the problem with not being able to get the Wizard to open up.

I am now at step one:

1. Page 1: defaults (use cache folders, display a feed from GeckoTribe.com)

I have the cache foders and GeckoTribe options checked.

Here is an error I am getting on the following page.

"Checking for cache directories...Found

An unexpected error occurred while attempting to load carp.php. Please resolve this issue and then load the CaRP setup assistant again".

The page stays open with this error message. Nothing else is there.

Suggestions?

People are following along, but not on a second by second basis. The software on this forum is maintained by volunteers.

I suggest you place an ad on the commercial help wanted forum for someone to install this for you.

Thanks, but I have it up and running.

No need to pay someone.

Thanks for the tip though :cool:

For some reason ’ is converted to ?, which is weird, it should be '
I wonder how can I fix this problem,

Very nice module btw

Regards

swguy:

The Zen Cart Blog Integration Contribution, which allows you to integrate your blog or any RSS feed into your cart, is now available in the download area here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1029

Detailed help on this module is available on my site:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_blog_integration.html

Zen Cart Blog Integration uses the CaRP utility, developed by Gecko Tribe, LLC. It is distributed with the starter edition of CaRP, with instructions for upgrading to the full edition if more features are desired.

An example of what the contribution looks like when installed in a cart is provided here:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/swguy_demo_1.3.7/index.php?main_page=blog

Good luck,
That Software Guy

This is the only real problem with CaRP as far as I'm concerned. For some ideas on dealing with this, take a look at Antone's help pages:

http://carp.docs.geckotribe.com/README.html#garbage

Scott

Hello, I'm new in using the software Zen-Cart and my question is the blog of integration can put several blogs on my website is a place in the area of game consoles, put another blog in the area Computer, another blog in the area of sound equipment.

Thanks

You could ... if you really wanted to partition them, you'd need to create new pages for each one, of course.

swguy:

You could ... if you really wanted to partition them, you'd need to create new pages for each one, of course.

Yes, for example, need to put a blog on the homepage of wii consoles http://www.todoenguate.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=122_157&products_id=2778
and I need to put another blog in PlayStation 3
and able http://www.todoenguate.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=122_157&products_id=2784 put another blog on other pages. The idea is that it can deliver my goods with comments from people in the blogs

I have followed the installation instructions and have gotten to the point of opening carpsetup.php.
It successfully loads the feed from GeckoTribe.com.
However, the instructions talk about 'Page 2' and 'Page 3', which I am not able determine or locate.

I am unable to determine how or where to display any RSS feeds in Zen Cart.

Please help me determine where I am going wrong...
Thank you!
Jim Scott

Evidently, the Page 2 & Page 3 entries are irrelevant.
Posting the code into my Zen Cart's Main Page, appears as expected.

It took a while to discover that the URL for my Word Press blog must be https://www.mysite.com/blog/?feed=rss2 in order to be read as a feed and not a web page.

Hopefully, others will find this post easier than I did to uncover my problem...

Now that I have the feed from my blog appearing on my Zen Cart Main Page, that functionality is working fine...

How can I integrate to login functions so that my Zen Cart customers can post to the blog without a separate login?
:blink:

How can I integrate to login functions so that my Zen Cart customers can post to the blog without a separate login?
Not currently possible..would require custom coding.

Misty -
Thanks for the response.
Was I mistaken in assuming the WOZ integration used Zen Cart for the WP login? (I thought that was in their description...)
I guess that would be part of the performance trade-off. Slower-site but increased-convenience.

The 'custom coding' you mentioned. Is that something straight-forward? Or, a band-aid-and-baling-wire solution?
Would you consider it a large project? 5 hours? 50? 500?

Looking forward to your reply...

There are two contributions for Wordpress: a Wordpress Integration (which might be a better starting point for you) and this, which is a "blog display" mod. This is just a feed reader that you can use to display blog posts in your cart.