Installing Simple SEO URL module for ZenCart
Well I’ve finally done it – installed the Simple SEO URL module for Zen Cart! And I thought I’d better document it here before I forget the steps I’ve done and need to do it again for another cart. I had avoided doing on previous carts as its a bit fiddly to set up and […]
Managing New Items on a Zen Cart
The New Products view can be a mixed blessing in Zen Cart.Of course you want to showcase new items to your customers – but what exactly defines “new”?There are a few places to set this up in Zen Cart 1)The default ordering for products in the New Products list is set in Configuration > New […]
How to show number of items in shopping cart in Zen Cart
Here’s a useful snippet of code if you need to show just the total of items in a Zen Cart shopping cart. echo “Items in cart: “. $_SESSION[‘cart’]->count_contents(); I’m using it in a discrete header including a link to the shopping cart page.I think it looks cleaner than the default Zen Cart shopping cart side […]
Display your last tweet using PHP & Twitter API
UPDATE: As of Aug 31st 2010 this method will no longer work. Read an improved way of doing it here: Improved way of getting last Twitter status using SimplePie Well I figured it would be easy to do – so why has it taken me most of the afternoon to figure it out?! I was […]
Turning Flash Movies into rollover, clickable buttons
You gotta love web designers – they create lovely animations in Flash then expect you, the developer, to be able to instantly transfer them into roll-over-able, clickable buttons using the wonders of HTML. Hmm. Time to roll up my sleeves and delve into the murky world of Flash and ActionScript again. (Didn’t help that I […]