Shopping cart

[carlberry64]

hi
i have been useing oscommerce-2.2ms2 for a few years now and want my website to ne used as
just a catalog, ie without the shopping cart or displaying any price.
I have managed to remove the cart but i am having trouble as to where to remove the
price in the Product Categories section on the left side bar.

Has anyone got any ideas as to where i need to edit which page or could get a working catalog site without cart and without the price
being shown.

Hope someone can help

carl

[seamus]

is there not a setting in admin to set the store as an online showcase? osc isnt a cart I'v had too much experience with, so I cant remember off hand, you could go for a zencart which is build from oscommerce, so it should be straight forward enough to move all your products over from osc to zen, then its just a matter of setting the store as an online showcase, which will do exactly as you need, no prices, no shopping cart etc,

I'd need a look at the file structure of oscommerce again to remember which files you'd need to edit in order to remove the cart functions and price etc,

[carlberry64]

hi
thanks for the reply.
i have noe downloaded a zencart,
can you tell me how to set as just catalog so it wont display cart, price, add to cart

cheers carl

[seamus]

go into your admin panel, then go into configuration in the top left, then select my store (first option under configuration)
two thirds of the way down the page, select store status and select number 1 which is showcase with no prices.

this will remove the add to cart button and replace it with contact us, so there's no option to add products to the shopping cart and it will show no prices, selecting option 2 will set the store as a showcase with prices, same again, the add to cart buttons will be replaced with contact us, so no one can add anything to their shopping cart, but it will still display the prices.

its up to you how you want it set, either way admin>configuration>my store and select option 1 or 2 depending if you want to show prices or not.

the side boxes are controlled under tools>layout boxes controller, just turn off the side boxes you dont want to show, and change the sort order and select which side you want them to show on.

Most of the layout controls are under configuration > my store and configuration > layout settings
you can remove the category tabs that appear under the header on the store in configuration>layout settings and selecting Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF near the bottom of the page

to remove the category counts (the numbers next to the category names that say how many products are in each category) go into configuration>my store and just short of half way down the page, select show category counts and set to false

[carlberry64]

hi
thank you your a wizared.
couple of other things how do i change the tab title at the moment it reads,
Zen Cart!, The Art Of E-commerce.    i want it to have my site name there.

also how do i move all my products, categaries from the databace to the zencart databace

carl

[seamus]

go into your zencart via FTP and go to /includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php
you can change the title tab text in there, and set custom keywords for your site aswell,

database, I'll get back to you about the best way to do that.

do you have an easy populate function on your oscommerce? a way of uploading and exporting CSV files? that would be one way to move all your products in one go

edit to add,
this might be of use to ye
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=918

[carlberry64]

hi
yet again wiz
thanks alot

carl

[carlberry64]

hi where do i put the favicon and do i need to enter a code for it to display?

carl

[seamus]

its just a matter of creating an image 16px x 16px call it favicon.ico and place it in the root of your site if thats where your zen cart is installed ie, public_html and thats all you need to do, you only need to change code if you want to specify another file name,
make sure the image software you're using can create ico files, nothing to it really

if your zen cart is in another directory and not in the root, then put it in that, ie, public_html/zencart

[seamus]

another thing I should mention,

if your favicon isnt for showing go into /includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php
or if your template has a meta_tag.php file of its own, go into includes/languages/english/your_template/meta_tags.php and uncomment the bottom line

Code:

// favicon setting
// There is usually NO need to enable this unless you wish to specify a path and/or a different filename
//define('FAVICON', 'favicon.ico');

it can take a while before the favicon shows up, so if it doesnt appear for a while, its usually nothing to worry about

(for those that dont know)

the two forward slashes before the line of code comment out that line, so it doesnt get used, by removing the two forward slashes, this makes that line of code active

if you download and use notepad ++ to open and edit php files, the lines of code will change colour depending on wether the code is written properly and functioning or commented out,
code that is commented out and not used will show as green, uncommenting the line will turn it black with purple brackets and comma's. file names etc will show as grey, the change in colour lets you know at a glance if the code is active or not, aswell as other things

[carlberry64]

hi again
when i try to login on the main site i get warning that says

Error There was a security error when trying to login.

i am entering the correct details have you any ideas as to what it could be.

cheers carl

[seamus]

is it the admin panel your logging in to or the store as a customer?

[carlberry64]

hi
store customer

carl

[seamus]

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


there ye are, thats the info you need 

[carlberry64]

  thank you for all your help

got another question, is it posable to put a slideshow of photos on the home page or within the header?

if so where can i get the info i need to do this or do you know where i could get a free template for this

cheers carl