Site Specific Overrides

More ways to customize your cart’s behavior without modifying core files

Note: This document is for the storefront side site specific overrides. Here are the Admin site specific overrides.

Setting Overrides

Starting in Zen Cart 1.5.8, a file called includes/extra_datafiles/dist-site_specific_overrides.php is provided.

Copy this file to

includes/extra_datafiles/site_specific_overrides.php

and customize to taste.

Many behaviors can be enabled or disabled by this file, such as:

  • displaying the About Us link in the Information sidebox ($flag_show_about_us_sidebox_link).
  • displaying the Accessibility Page link in the Information sidebox ($flag_show_accessibility_sidebox_link).
  • displaying the Brands page link in the Information sidebox ($flag_show_brand_sidebox_link).
  • (developers) whether to enable debug on the zcDate class ($zen_date_debug).
  • (developers) whether to bypass loading string-matches of legacy language files ('NO_LANGUAGE_SUBSTRING_MATCH') (see Substring Matching for details).
  • (developers) whether to disable loading the Font Awesome v4 shim if backwards compatibility is not needed ($disableFontAwesomeV4Compatibility).
  • whether a product’s additional images should be displayed if the product has no ‘main’ image defined ($enable_additional_images_without_main_image).
  • set category counts to count only distinct products: if a product is in two different sub categories of a parent category it will only be counted once ('COUNT_DISTINCT_PRODUCTS').
  • for Checkout Shipping, when no shipping method is available, substitute the Continue button with a Contact Us button ($show_contact_us_instead_of_continue).
  • for Product Listing: enable the legacy sorting by column heading ($show_table_header_row).

See the file itself for further details.

Information on the admin site-specific overrides file is also available.

Non-Database Setting Overrides

Starting in Zen Cart 1.5.8, a file called /includes/init_includes/dist-init_site_specific_non_db_settings.php is provided.

Copy this file to

/includes/init_includes/init_site_specific_non_db_settings.php

and customize to taste. The settings that may be altered in this file are listed in the file includes/init_includes/init_non_db_settings.php.

Bootstrap Template Setting Overrides

Users of the Bootstrap template may override its css using the site_specific_styles.php file.



Still have questions? Use the Search box in the upper right, or try the full list of FAQs. If you can't find it there, head over to the Zen Cart support forum and ask there in the appropriate subforum. In your post, please include your Zen Cart and PHP versions, and a link to your site.

Is there an error or omission on this page? Please post to General Questions on the support forum. Or, if you'd like to open a pull request, just review the guidelines and get started. You can even PR right here.
Last modified October 16, 2024 by Scott Wilson (da85271).