Zen Cheatsheet

Summary of where to change things in Zen Cart

Once you've spent some time with Zen Cart you'll have an idea of how to change things from the Admin Panel, in the templates, and in the override system, if you're like me you forget where you changed a thing. This is a summary of things you might want to change and where to find them. Please read Zen Basics and play around with your installation to get a feel for how templates work, etc before just launching into this page.

Item to Change	Method to Change	Where it's located	Default
Email address to send orders to	Admin Panel	Configuration -> E-Mail Options -> Send Copy of E-Mail Order Confirmations To	username@swcp.com account where Zen Cart was installed
Number of items in a row in a category listing	Admin Panel	Configuration --> Maximum Values --> Categories to List per Row	3
Number of items in a row in new products listing	Admin Panel	Configuration --> Index Listing --> New Products Columns per Row	3
TagLine/Sales Message	includes/languages/ENGLISH/CUSTOM/header.php folder1	define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', 'TagLine Here');	Tagline Here
Logo	upload a new GIF file.	includes/templates/CUSTOM/images/logo.gif2
Logo, size or type	includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/header.php	define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '192px') define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '64px') define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.gif')	192x64px, logo.gif
Title Bar	define('TITLE', 'Zen Cart!') define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'The Art of E-commerce')	includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/meta_tags.php	Zen Cart! The Art of E-commerce
Meta Tags	define('CUSTOM_KEYWORDS', 'ecommerce, open source, shop, online shopping')	includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/meta_tags.php
Fonts, font sizes Colors Borders	Upload new CSS file(s)3	includes/templates/CUSTOM/css/stylesheet.css2
Image sizes for product listings	Admin Panel	Configuration --> Images	Small Image Width/Height Subcatgory Image Width/Height Product Info Image Width/Height
Remove tiny category image from Product listing	Admin Panel	Configuration --> Product Listing --> Include Product Listing Sub Categories Image	true
Removing the request for customer's age	Admin Panel	Configuration -> Customer Details -> Date of Birth	true
Remove category icon from Product Listing	In CSS stylefile	.categoryIcon { display: none; }
Customer header with Javascript4	Upload new file for tpl_header.php New code in the logowrapper2 div.	includes/templates/CUSTOM/common/tpl_header.php	See includes/templates/template_default/common

¹CUSTOM is your template name, ENGLISH is your language (usually english). Read the Zen Cart documentation on the override system.

²CUSTOM is your template name. Read about templates (also the override system).

³The css subdirectory may contain as many css files as you'd like, the will all be loaded.

⁴See this article for further insight.