Free zen cart template, on zen-cart.com

[seamus]

I've written a free template for download from zen-cart.com
included is a fair amount of jquery, I've installed a jquery-ui slider on the main page and written a script that grabs four products from the database at random on every page load and uses that to fill the slider with content. (its a similar script to the coinslider adapter I wrote)
All popup boxes are handled with jquery aswell, larger images, shipping estimator, help boxes etc.

To download the template follow this link
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_53&products_id=2018

for a look at the template on a test site, follow this link
http://www.rainbow-designs.co.uk/zencart/

[Silverthistle]

I like the sleek look of this :-) GREAT work :-)

How easy would it be to transfer over a database from a version 1.7 Cart that is seriously in need of updating ?

Cheers :-)

[seamus]

is it just the database you need? not the whole store?

download a copy of your database via cpanel > phpmyadmin then click on the database on the left top corner of the screen (not the schema) and then click export, save as an sql file.

Then go into the cpanel > phpmyadmin of the store you want to move the database to and find the database for that store (top left corner of phpmyadmin) click on that then click import (tends to be easier if there are no tables or fields at all in the database you are importing to)
then you'll need to upgrade the database,
upload the zc_install directory back into your zen cart stores root and run the install again, but make sure you choose "upgrade database" in the install, you dont actually want to run a full fresh install, you just want to upgrade the database to the new version

if you dont have a zc_install directory from your version of zen cart, download the full thing and upload the zc_install directory to your site from that,
here http://zen-cart.com

[Andy c]

Nice looking template ..Am tempted for my new site ..Does it not have a right hand side column though or is it just the left and bottom

Thanks

[Silverthistle]

Thanks for the reply Seamus :-) It is very much appreciated :-)

I was asking about a database transfer really as we wanted a new look for the store on a more up to date and hopefully more secure version of ZEN,

Looking to do really two things  . . New host for a .co.uk and point a .com to the new site, and with transfering the database would that not in effect trasfer all the products descriptions etc  . . though I suspect images might be an issue :-)

How much of a potential ball ache would it to be to move lock stock and barrell to a clean install  . .  should really have been my question :-)

Cheers in advance :-)

[seamus]

pretty easy to be honest, just save a copy of your database and save a copy of everything in your images folder, then when you are installing the new version of zen cart, just create an empty database and import your old database (via phpmyadmin by importing the sql file you saved) then run the install script and sellect "upgrade database" that then should install the new version of zen cart with your old database and products etc
Just remember to upload all the images to your images directory aswell




Andy, its a two column layout, no right hand column

[Andy c]

awwww  pity ..When I had a 1 column side it got mighty crowed lol
Well it is still a good looking template ..I've almost got the ££ to buy 1 for my now site
So who knows
thanks for answering

[seamus]

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_53&products_id=2031

got a black version of that template on zen-cart.com for free download aswell now,

[JhnStcks]

Seamus, because you are calling jquery from google it is breaking SSL.

[seamus]

easy to fix,

add the jquery-ui file to the templates jscript directory (includes/templates/a-modern-zen/jscript)
rename the file to jscript_filenamehere.js
(aslong as the filename starts with jscript_ and ends with .js and is in the jscript directory, it'll get loaded automatically)

then go into includes/templates/a-modern-zen/common or includes/templates/black-zen/common depending on which template you're using
open html_header and on line 126 remove this code

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.5.3/jquery-ui.min.js" ></script>

its the jquery-ui file thats being called, the straight jquery file is already in the template, so its only that one extra jquery-ui file you need

heres a link to download the file, just re-name it to jscript_jquery-ui.js and upload it to the templates jscript directory
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui/downloads/detail?name=jquery.ui-1.5.3.zip&can=2&q=

[JhnStcks]

I just changed the script to use https and it works fine

[seamus]

ahh there is that way aswell I supose

[enchanted]

  I'm liking the look of that template, I'm not usually a fan of zen templates because most of them look a bit 'sameish' that one's hardly recognisable as a zen cart page 

[seamus]

 

[RB_Beads]

I love the black one, but cant really be bothered to start altering my site again!  Maybe when I have more time!