How to Fix a Zen Cart Search
Zen cart's eCommerce shopping cart search template enable Web developers to construct customized shopping carts for users to both manage and purchase items. Depending on your site's merchandise and setup, users can browse your products by category or use image previews to make their selections. But if your Zen Cart's search parameters have kinks, you could lose out on potential customers. However, you can make a few adjustments to your cart's configuration to remedy issues with your Zen Cart and its search engine.
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Instructions
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Shopping Cart Access Issues
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Enable full access to your image directories if images don't display correctly in your cart's search results. Click the "Start" button in your taskbar. Then type "cmd" into the Start menu's search box and click the "cmd" icon.
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Type the "chmod 777 (directory)" command for each of your cart's image directories. Substitute "(directory)" in the command with each image directory; for example, chmod 777 /images/medium.
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Type "Exit" and then hit the "Enter" key on your keyboard to exit the Command Prompt window.
Zen Cart Speed Issues
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Change your cart's configuration options to fix speed issues with its search. Click the "Admin" option. Then select the"Configuration" option to access your cart's configuration options.
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Expand the "My Store" node in the Configuration menu's options tree. Set the "Show Category Counts" and "Show Category Counts-Admin" values to "False" to disable category counting on your cart and make searches respond quicker.
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Expand the "GZIP Compress" node. Set the "Enable GZIP Compression" value to 1 to compress your content so that it displays faster.
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Expand the "Attribute Settings" node. Give unused features a value of "0" to disable them. You can disable downloads and content sorting to make your searches more efficient.
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