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Having had Zencart completey mess me up this weekend (I think it might have been something to do with php5) to the point that I basically gave up and started again.
Then that went wrong for various reasons (I suspect I put one file for one extension in the wrong directory... Quite why they need to make it such a complicated nest of directories I do not know).
So I'm sitting here with a broken system and wondering if frankly I should just dump ZenCart and try to find something that isn't as complicated.
Yes I said complicated - ZenCart has so many functions that I suspect 90% of people don't use and the documentation is sparse and often confusing.
I'm also finding that extensions that I'd been using are no-longer being developed/supported.
So am I right or am I just having a bad morning.
Kevin - feel free to move this topic if its not in the right place!
Although phpMyAdmin does a pretty good job most of the time sometimes it just doesn't have the features you need.
I've been using TOAD (Tool for Oracle Application Developers) for years now and now Quest software have released a freeware version for MySQL.
It allows you to do quite a lot of things - such as database structure comparisons - a great tool when you've run something that you think has upgraded the structures in your database and you want to know exactly what has been changed.
http://www.toadsoft.com/toadmysql/FreewareDownload.htm
Does anyone know of any good (preferably free or low cost) templates for Zen Cart. A lot of the ones I've looked at all seem to be based on the basic " boxy" sort of layout and just seem to be "lacking".. if you know what I mean.
I've got two stores to work on - one is a showcase style store for a dealer in antiquities and the other is a full store for semi bespoke articles and I'm looking for suitable templates
Steve
Kevin
I think everyone appreciates the work you do on the UK template - especially as its something done "for fun" as it were.
Steve
I've done the security patching. Some of the stuff seems very US Centric and without installing a whole store I'm not really sure what advantages I'll actually get from the rest of the work - and that's time I don't currently have
Looking on the Zen Forums there seem to be a lot of people having problems with things breaking all over the place.
Steve
1.3.6 is out.
A mere 172 files to cross check for differences.
Does anyone know why there isn't anything like the "MOD" files which PHPBB uses (and people have written tools which implement those files)
I have to admit that having downloaded 1.3.5 and spent quite a bit of time bolting bits on and tweaking it the thought of having to manually work out the differences and either implementing them or waiting for the various extensions to be updated to 1.3.6 and re-installing them is not something I really want to consider.
So do I bother doing it all now, do I wait a couple of weeks for people to iron out the bugs and get the extensions checked in against 1.3.6, do I not bother doing it at all (and risk security problems) or do I give up...
I've loaded the demo data so will play with it for a couple of days but its looking good 
Well it was all there but...
I dropped the database tables.
re-extracted the zen 1.3.5 main archive
re-extracted the UK template archive
merged them back togther.
Ran the install. Saw it report that it was running the extra SQL
All seems fine now.
Not sure what happened last time.. I did have a kitten helping me out so who knows
When I switch templates it reports :
WARNING: New boxes found: ezpages.php
Kevin
I just dug round in the database and it looks like the UK sql didn't run at all 
Heres the server information from the Version menu:
Server Host: strauss (192.168.0.1)
Database Host: localhost (127.0.0.1)
Server OS: Linux 2.4.21-303-athlon
Database: MySQL 4.1.10a-standard
Server Date: 05/09/2006 14:17:18
Database Date: 05/09/2006 14:17:18
Server Up Time: 2:17pm up 4 days 6:50, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
PHP Version: 4.3.10 (Zend: 1.3.0)
HTTP Server: Apache/2.0.48 (Linux/SuSE)
Its not on an outward available URL at the moment
Well I did the new 1.3.5 UK Template install.
The admin menus are nicely anglicised but I dont have Pounds as a currency and I didn't have the option to choose it during the install.
It could just be me - I'll delete it all and try again!
Also once you've switched templates the layout boxes are gone. I know its part of the "normal" behaviour of switching to a new template but it might be worth mentioning it.
True
I see they've tweaked the template system again - classic has changed again.
Whilst its good that they are improving things it does make customisation a bit of pain!
The annoying this is of course that Zen-Cart doesn't allow this to be customised from within the system so you have to go and find the file in question. Being a US based product they've coded it in and dont mention it anywhere because of course for the USA its correct.
Is it worth updating the UK template documentation so it includes a reference to editing the appropriate file?
The newsletters that Zen cart can send out has a long winded legal disclaimer mentioning the US CAN-SPAM act.
Obviously this doesn't apply in the UK so I don't really want to send out stuff with it on however I'm wondering if there is any recommended wording for the UK.
The wording is contained in the email_extras.php file which can be found in the language sub folder structure.
There are 3 "classes" of postal item:
Letter
Large Letter
Packet.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/cont … d=28900661
So I guess what is needed is to something similar to the "Table Rate" postage item but where we basically assign a "shipping class" to a product.
So a CD has a shipping class of "Packet". a "post card" size object would be classed as a "letter".
However if you only ever post stuff in padded envelopes then its easy as they will all be too "fat" to be classed as letters as they will be more than 25mm thick. So I guess you just cut your losses and assume everything is a "Packet" and just go on weight and ignore the size.
Hi
I've just down loaded ZenCart and the UK template and I'm slowly finding my way round the system.
At lunch time I was in the Post Office and I picked up a leaflet on their wonderful new pricing structure which uses size as well as weight to work out how much something will cost to post.
ZC only knows about weights which works fine at the moment but has anyone got any idea how to handle the new RM pricing scheme? Apart from not using RM at all for posting?
Steve
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