The page parse time display can be a very useful tool in diagnosing or troubleshooting with your Zen Cart online store, mainly relating to pages that are really slow to load. The page parse time information sits outside of the ‘main wrapper’ in the footer of each page. To enable or disable the display of [...]
The Page Parse Time information consists of three page statistics: The page Parse Time is the time it took from when the first line of code in index.php started processing until the footer of your page was drawn. This includes the delays introduced by any SQL queries waiting on the database. The parse time is [...]
The footer can display the IP address of your store’s visitors. Many people, including genuine customers, find the display of their IP address gives them an uneasy feel. It also does very little in discouraging non-genuine customers from misbehaving. For most stores I recommend that the customer’s IP address is removed from the footer in [...]
Today I’m going to step through the components that make up the Zen Cart Footer and their relevant settings in Zen Cart Admin. Banner Position 4 While not actually called by the includes/templates/common/footer.php file, the Banner Position 4 is also known as Footer Position 1. See Zen Cart Banner Locations for an outline of [...]
Zen Cart™ (http://www.zen-cart.com) is a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. It gives web designers and online store owners a robust and customisable electronic storefront that’s easy to keep up-to-date with new features.
Zen Cart provides usable, intuitive and unobtrusive purchase flows right out of the box based on proven industry best-practices.
A powerful feature of Zen Cart is a robust template system that “abstracts” the look-and-feel from the code and logic behind Zen Cart.
Stay in touch to receive sample chapters, bonus content and pre-launch specials.