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Zen Cart: Change Chapter and TOC navigation from vertical to horizontal. Great CSS instructions at:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=292547&postcount=4

Full thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=866120#post866120

Zen Cart ecommerce integration and design “skinning” by Designparc. Website design by Joshua Estes.

Project management, including merchant account and product fulfillment integration by Designparc. Zen Cart product orders/shipping export modification by Joshua Estes.

Editing Zen Cart “Order Email Confirmation” text

This is the file that a customer receives as confirmation for their purchase:

1. (Template override) file located at:
root/includes/languages/english/musicforhope/checkout_process.php

2. Original file copied from:
root/includes/languages/english/checkout_process.php

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Editing Zen Cart “Email Disclaimer” text at bottom of “Order Email Confirmation” email

This is the lower half of the info that a customer receives as confirmation for their purchase – everything from Payment Method and below:

1. (Template override) file located at:
root/includes/languages/english/musicforhope/email_extras.php

2. Original file copied from:
root/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php

(Using Zen Cart 1.3.8a)

1. jQuery source:

http://net.tutsplus.com/javascript-ajax/create-a-tabbed-interface-using-jquery/

2. Zen Cart integration:

- CSS: Delete “*” and “body” classes from file. Put in template’s css folder (root/includes/templates/CUSTOM TEMPLATE/css). I changed file name from “style.css” to “style_tabbed_content.css”.

- Javascripts: Put all 3 javascript files in jscript folder (root/includes/templates/CUSTOM TEMPLATE/jscript). Must also add jscript_ text to the beginning of each file name (ie: change “jquery-1.2.6.min.js” to “jscript_jquery-1.2.6.min.js”) – this allows Zen Cart to link to your custom javascript via the custom template system.

- HTML: Open original index.html file, copy everything between body tags and paste into an EZ Pages page. HTMLarea must be ON in EZ Pages setup.

Problem: Customer can’t log in
Error message: “There was a security error when trying to login.”

FIX: http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=312

ALL new templates need the following code added to their tpl_login_default.php file

• line 50: <?php echo zen_draw_hidden_field(‘securityToken’, $_SESSION['securityToken']); ?>
• line 79: <?php echo zen_draw_hidden_field(‘securityToken’, $_SESSION['securityToken']); ?>

(Original master file is here: root > includes > templates > template_default > templates > tpl_login_default.php)

Some hosting providers do not yet provide PHP5 on their servers, opting instead to stay with PHP4 for the time being. As Magento is a PHP5-only application, this can be a barrier for some users. This document outlines a possible workaround for such a scenario. The goal is to install PHP5 as a CGI binary and configure the web server (Apache) to use it instead of the default PHP4.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#appendixphp5_cgi_setup

Website client has a need for manually processing credit card orders because he already has a credit card terminal in his office and doesn’t want to incur any extra gateway processing fees.

Magento and Zen Cart have successfully passed the “manual credit card processing” test.

• Magento keeps the full 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end
• Zen Cart keeps half of the 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end and emails you the other half

Brief, non-detailed, overview of installing Magento Ecommerce Shopping Cart v1.3.2.4 on 1and1 Hosting

1. Download Magento 1.3.2.4 and Sample Data 1.2.0 from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister
2. Import Sample Data SQL files into database
3. Copy Magento Sample Data’s media/catalog folder to Magento/media folder
4. Follow Magento Installation Guide (http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#installation1)
5. Create a cgi-bin folder in Magento root and add the php5-cgi file from http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#step_1upload_the_php5_cgi_binary
6. FTP everything to the server
7. Make a bunch of permission changes in a couple different places. See http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide
8. Run install
9. Ran across 2 errors during installation and searched/found/was successful via Google searches (can’t remember what the errors were)
   • One of the changes involved removing all of the countries except “English (United States)” and all of the currencies except “US Dollar” in the magento > app > etc > config.xml file
10. Front-end 500 Server Error messages when trying to click on page links:
    • Tweaked the .htaccess file
    • Also made change in Magento Admin, under System > Configuration > Web > SEO > NO
11. That may not be everything I did, but that’s most of it

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v 3.7.5 RC3) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.5 RC3 (released Oct 20, 2009)
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 757:
Change: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&amp;P’);
To: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&amp;H’);

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v3.7.4) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.4
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 749:
Change: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&amp;P’);
To: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&amp;H’);