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(Russian) Новые возможности шаблонов для Zen Cart

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This tutorial shows you how to edit your Zen-cart browser title "Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerce"…

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This tutorial shows how to resolve the issue causing the "Cannot add header information – headers already sent" error message.

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ZenCart. Engine installation

November 28 2011 | Category: ZenCart Tutorials

The following manual shows the complete process of the ZenCart e-commerce solution installation. Starting from the engine download and to the final steps of the setup procedure.…

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ZenCart social icons dump

October 19 2011 | Category: ZenCart Updates

New ZenCart e-commerce templates became more socialized. The templates with ID later than 35000 have the social icons added to the product info page. …

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ZenCart Quick Guide

October 11 2011 | Category: ZenCart

We are happy to present you a new comprehensive guide for ZenCart content management system. It will lead you step by step from the ZenCart engine download to the final steps of the theme installation. Will help you to create a live catchy website for your business project from the mere template.…

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This tutorial will show you how to create multiple product images in ZenCart.
First of all you need to locate the product image file name.

  1. Open ZenCart admin panel
  2. Go to Catalog > Categories/Products and open the product you want to modify.
  3. At the product editing screen scroll down and find the image file name

Create new product images with …

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This tutorial will show you how to edit products carousel in ZenCart template.

  1. Open catalog\includes\templates\theme###\common\tpl_main_page.php file
  2. The carousel is developed using the unordered list layout:
<ul>
  <li class="one"><a  href="index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=40"><?php  echo zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE.'images/pic1.jpg'); ?></a>
  <span  class="info">
  <div  class="desc">
  <h5>Model  Name:</h5>
  <p>Virgin  Mobile - Samsung Intercept. Red.</p>
  <h5>Description:</h5>
  <p>Lorem  ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod  tempor<br><br> Encididunt ut labore …
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To manage Left/Right boxes open Zen Cart admin panel -> Tools -> Layout Boxes Controller.

You will see the list of available modules. Select one, then in the right pane click "Edit" button.

When you use both left and right columns you can change the following properties:

Left/Right Column Status: ON=visible, OFF=hidden
Location: LEFT or RIGHT position of the sidebox…

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Most of the text values in Zen Cart are stored in a corresponding language files. For the default English language that file is \includes\languages\english.php

For example we want to translate 2 titles: one for the Currencies box and the other Shopping Cart module.

Open the file \includes\languages\english.php with any text or HTML editor. To locate a text among the code …

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To install sample data provided with the template you should open Zen-Cart admin panel -> Tools -> Install SQL Patches

You will get 2 options, either execute SQL query or upload .sql file. The result will be the same either option you choose. We’ll stay with the second option as the template includes 2 .sql files.

Click on the "Browse" …

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This tutorial will show you how to change manage banners in ZenCart

The banners of the template can be managed via Zen Cart admin -> Tools -> Banner Manager. There you have options to create a new banner, edit or delete already existing ones.

Pick a banner from the list and click "Edit" button.

The list of options for the …

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ZenCart product images format

Zen Cart displays images in 3 formats for each product:

Small – Thumbnail images displayed on the home page and product listing pages.
Medium – Displayed on the individual Product Info page.
Large – Your normal image which is accessed by clicking the ‘larger image’ link on the Product Info page.

The image is uploaded when …

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ZenCart templates starting from template #32377 are provided with updated sample sub-pages…

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This tutorial will show you how to work with new/featured/special blocks in ZenCart

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This tutorial shows how to add top menu menu tabs in ZenCart store. Menu tabs in ZenCart can be managed via ZenCart administration panel.

  1. Log in to ZenCart admin panel
  2. Go to Tools > EZ-Pages
  3. Here you can see list of all page in your store. Red blocks mean Disabled, green – Enabled

As you can see you can enable/disable …

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Product Information Pages

To enable / disable different options at the per-product-type level:

1. Open your administration panel like this: www.yourdomain.com/admin where yourdomain.com refers directly to the address of your site.
2. Go to Catalog button on the top menu and choose Product Types from the drop down menu.

3. Choose Products General (or the product type you are modifying). …

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