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ISYS 475 Project: Customizing a Zen Cart E-Commerce Site. Introduction.
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Introduction • Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Website: • http://www.zen-cart.com/ • Download: • http://sourceforge.net/projects/zencart/files/
Download • After download, copy the unzipped zen cart folder to: • C:\xampp\htdocs • Then, rename the zen cart folder to zencart so that you have a zencart folder as: • C:\xampp\htdocs\zencart
Configure Zen Cart • First, create a mysql database named: zencart • You don’t need to create any table. • Open a browser and enter: • Localhost/zencart • From option 1, click the “click here” link to begin.
Testing • Go to the zencart site: • http://localhost/zencart/ • Go to the administration site: • http://localhost/zencart/myadmin • Enter username and password
Creating a PHP Project for Zen Cart • 1. Creating a new PHP project and name it: testzencart • 2. Copy and paste the contents of the unzipped zen cart files and folders to the testzencart project folder.