Support Analyst’s Talk

zen cart allows site master to install many languages.

when add in a product description, you need to write in all copies of languages.

So this feature is not like joomla google translation pro, it is a manual translation, not automatic.

zen cart can be installed with tinyMCE (rich text editor), great feature , works with firefox too.

spend at least 15 mninutes to find where to turn off Display Product Quantity in product description page with no result!

zend cart has two Display Product Quantity options, one is in product listing, the other is in all listing.

none of them is what I need. I think the admin panel of zen cart is not good. too complex for new user.

sorting out zen cart can be very painful

I spend 10 minutes to find where to change / turn off store name and address in contact us page.

finally I find it is in admin-> E-Mail Options -> Contact Us - Show Store Name and Address

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Admin_-_Configuration_-_E-Mail_Options#Contact_Us_-_Show_Store_Name_and_Address

thanks to google for saving millions of my time!!!

another crap thing is to delete page 1, page 2 and page 3, which zen cart leave for future need of site owner.

I look all over the directory, finally I spot the error message that gives me a good idea of where the directory should be, /includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_site_map_default.php

zen cart doesn’t satisfy me, neither does its add on templats.

my eyes are very dizzy now, just because of looking into a bug which says could find about us page on apple zen template, come back with 404 page.

after I carefully check the apple zen file, I found there is about us link being turned on, but this is not in default zen cart template. what a mess!!!

includes\templates\apple_zen\common\tpl_drop_menu.php

<li><a href=”<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ABOUT_US); ?>”><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_ABOUT_US; ?></a></li>

change some text here

includes\languages\english\apple_zen\header.php

————–

God, what a fool, actually search defined term in zen cart can be very easy,

the developer tool kit in admin-> tool can help you search the pre-defined term.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-42331.html

but for some keywords, it doesn’t seem to be that easy.

I tried on term “cart™” which appears in meta author , it fails.

finally i found the result from google, and to remove author meta, check this file:

/includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php

How do I turn off weight from my product descriptions (new product list)

catalog->product type->Show Weight

http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=247

everytime, when you find something act wired, the first thing to suspect is that you being cached.

why broswer has to bring in cache feature? cache cause so much problem, although it does speed up web content viewing.

however, considering the time i wasted, i really want to turn off this feature.

CASE:

laptopbatteryshop.net , when I update GBP as default currency, it doesn’t change from dollar to pound! just because of cache, I waste 20 minutes!

finally found the problem spoted: http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=96

My prices are displaying $0 instead of the real amount

---

First, check your store from another browser, preferably on another PC. Perhaps there may be a cache/session issue which will take care of itself by flushing cache or letting sessions expire.