1. ISYS 475 Project: Customizing a Zen Cart E-Commerce Site

2. 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.

3. Website: – http://www.zen-cart.com/ http://www.zen-cart.com/ Download: – http://sourceforge.net/projects/zencart/files/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/zencart/files/

4. 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

5. 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.

7. Setup page

9. Testing Go to the zencart site: – http://localhost/zencart/ http://localhost/zencart/ Go to the administration site: – http://localhost/zencart/myadmin http://localhost/zencart/myadmin Enter username and password

10. 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.