Zen Cart - basic

1. How to disable (get rid of) "Welcome Guest"..

Go to:  Administration.

Select: Confihuration -> Layout Settings -> Customer Greeting  Show on Index Page

Edit and set 0

 

2. How to disable "Congratulation".....

Edit includes/languages/english/index.php

Look for "Congratulation", you will find it in 2 places. Just empty those strings.

 

3. How to have shop name  in admin area (very good for multiple store with one sigle point management)

edit admin/includes/languages/emglis.php

lines #11 to #14 contain images size, name and alt for logo (left top)

 

4. How to customise admin area (it includes administrators with restricted menu/access)

edit admin /includes/header.php

go to line #229 which begin with td class=headerBarContent and add into that line where you wish STORE_NAME.
For example insert in between td: echo ''.STORE_NAME.' - '; echo date("r", time()) . 'GMT' . ' [' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . ' ] ';

 

5. How to customise Zen Cart ( error ) messages

edit and change includes/classes/message_stack.php

or / and

edit and customise css file, look for class messageStackWarning

6. Do not show hidden input (sometimes)

Change or create it again (in extra_functions folder) function zen_draw_hidden_field in includes/functions/html_output.php

and add display:none

 

6. How to reffer Australian Anti Spam Law (email send after registering).

Create your template name folder (if it does not exists) under includes/languages/ english

Copy there includes/languages/english/email_extras.php

Change line 28 (replace USA .... to  Australian Spam Act 2003). See  http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB

 

7. How to enable/disable products count in category list.

Admin area.

Configuration/Show Category Counts

 

8. How to enable/disable filter by (alphabetical) in products list.

Admin area.

Configuration/Product Listing/Include Product Listing Alpha Sorter Dropdown

 

9. How to show / hide store address in contact page.

Template  used : tpl_contact_us_default.php

Variable : CONTACT_US_STORE_NAME_ADDRESS

Problem: there si no instance of CONTACT_US_STORE_NAME_ADDRESS Admin area.

Option to work around:

Create your template name folder (if it does not exists) under includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME

Copy includes/templates/default_template/ templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php to includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/ templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php

Look for: CONTACT_US_STORE_NAME_ADDRESS = 0;

Delete/ rem  4 lines which include it (#24 to #27 for example)

 

10. How to create ezPages.

By default are enabled. Check Configuration/EZ-Page Settings

Go to Tools/EZ-Pages

An example is the best so..

Create a new pages.  If you wish to be displayed in sydebar (vertical links) then Sidebar-YES must be checkes, TOC - YES must be checked and for all NO must be checked. In sidebar and TOC write "order = 1) It is a must, otherwise page will not be displayed.

Create a new page and the same like before and write "order = 2... ens so on.

To be able to see pahes in Left sidebar for example go to Toos/Layout Box Controler

Look for sidebox/YOUR-TEMPLATTE/ezpages_drop_menu.php or sidebox/ezpages_drop_menu.phpand enable it for LEFT Side.

Refresh website and you must see "Important links" box on left side

 

11. How to customise emails send to users

All templates, images and style sheet are stored in email folder (root of your website). Here you must updated image (logo). It is a jpgfile.

All mesages are stored in admin/includes/languages/english/email_extra.php

 

12. How to delete (disable) alphabetical sort orders for products lists

Go to Configuration/Product Listing

Look for (and change its value to 0) Include Product Listing Alpha Sorter Dropdown

 

13. How to enable "Agree terms and conditions" durinh checkout procedure 

Go to Configuration/Regulations

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