Add Facebook ‘Like’ button to your Zen Cart product pages

It is fast and easy to add the Facebook ‘Like’ button to all your product info pages. This ‘Like’ button is part of the new Facebook widgets or Social Plug-ins. The only Zen Cart file involved is the tpl_product_info_display.php file — and you do not need to do any editing, just get the file from [...]

Zen Cart 1.3.9 available now – All our Zen Cart templates updated

Zen Cart 1.3.9 is now available for download at Zen-Cart.com. If you’d like to find out what the differences are, and what files have been changed from version 1.3.8, download the Zen Cart 1.3.9 installer zip and look inside the “docs” folder. Basically, Zen Cart 1.3.9 is about security updates and bug-fixes — with only [...]

How to combine Zen Cart “More Information” and “Information” sideboxes

To combine or merge the links in “More Information” sidebox with “Information” sidebox, you just need to copy the codes from more_information.php to information.php. The files involved are: \includes\modules\sideboxes\more_information.php \includes\modules\sideboxes\information.php

Remove “Congratulations! You’ve installed Zen Cart” from home page

This text is contained in your language file: \includes\languages\english\index.php Before you edit the file, copy it to your template’s folder: \includes\languages\english\CUSTOM_TEMPLATE\index.php

How to manage Zen Cart Ez-Pages

Basically, Ez-Pages is used to create new links or pages for your Zen Cart site. It’s a very easy to use tool, but seems to easily confuse new users as well. From the many Ez-Pages related questions received — almost all were about “links that don’t appear on the menu bar after being created with [...]

How to display Flash in Zen Cart banner locations

You can display Flash at any location of your Zen Cart website by editing the design files (PHP). But this post will teach you how to display Flash content in the standard built-in Zen Cart banner locations — by using Zen Cart’s Banner Manager. First, you need to have a working Flash file (SWF) — [...]

Product listings display ‘bug’ in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

This issue can be seen on product listing pages using table and ‘colspan’ for displaying products — namely, the New Products, Featured Products and All Products pages. By default, Zen Cart displays each listing with the thumbnail on the left, the product name/price etc on the right, then the product description below (in a cell [...]

Alert: Zen Cart security vulnerability and patch

A vulnerability has been discovered in the admin area of Zen Cart version 1.3.8 and earlier versions. Please read further instructions, and download the patch from http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130161 This patch works for previous versions in the Zen Cart 1.3.x series. Please take the necessary actions as soon as possible.

Zen Cart and shared hosting

When I started to use Zen Cart some time ago, one of the first questions I asked was ‘Is shared web hosting good enough for running Zen Cart?’ Now, after a few years, and after dealing with a number of web hosting companies, I’ll share my experiences of using shared hosting.

Zen Cart Stylesheets (CSS) System

A while ago, I’ve got a client who asked me why modifications to his CSS file won’t change the look of his Zen Cart e-commerce website (The CSS files for a template are located in the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE\css\ ). Anyway, I checked and found that he made a copy of the original CSS file and rename [...]

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