How to Create a Static Page in Zen Cart
Say you want to create a new page called MyPage and link it from the information sidebox. Here's the seven step process to do that.
- Tell Zen Cart what new files/folders it should be looking for. In "includes/extra_datafiles/", create a file named "mypage_filenames.php" that looks like:
<?php
define('FILENAME_MYPAGE', 'mypage');
?>
- Now we create the actual content. Make a file in "includes/languages/english/mytemplate/" called "mypage.php". In it you can define all of the normal content definitions. It normally looks something like:
<?php
define('NAVBAR_TITLE', 'This is mypages breadcrumb and title');
define('HEADING_TITLE', 'This is mypages heading!');
define('TEXT_INFORMATION', 'Here is where mypages actual content goes!');
?>
- Create a new folder in "includes/modules/pages/" with the name you defined above in step one, so in our case it would be called "mypage".
- In your new folder create any files that you want executed, this includes any javascript, fancy php code, etc. However there must a file called "header_php.php" that contains the following:
<?php
require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'require_languages.php');
$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE);
?>
- Now for the layout. Create the template file in the folder "includes/templates/mytemplate/templates/". You want it to be called "tpl_mypage_default.php". The standard layout is something like:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td class="breadCrumb">
<?= $breadcrumb->trail(BREAD_CRUMBS_SEPARATOR); ?>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="pageHeading" align="center">
<h1><?= HEADING_TITLE; ?></h1>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="main">
<?= TEXT_INFORMATION; ?>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="main">
<?= zen_back_link() . zen_image_button('button_back.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_BACK) . '</a>'; ?>
</td></tr>
</table>
- Define the menu title. Open "includes/languages/mytemplate/english.php" (if it doesn't already exist, copy over the entire base file from "includes/languages/english.php" and modify that) and add a line like this:
define('BOX_INFORMATION_MYPAGE', 'Visit MyPage!');
- Add it to the information sidebox in "includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/more_information.php" by adding the line near the top:
$more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_MYPAGE) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_MYPAGE . '</a>';
And you're done!
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