Zen Cart - How to use the EZ Pages Editor and the Define Pages Editor

There are two places to edit your pages, they are either in the EZ Pages Editor or the Define Pages Editor: Notice the red area below will give you instructions on how to edit the pages that will hide all the “techie” coding.
 How To Edit Zen Cart EZ Pages [...]

Backing up files and databases using Cpanel

Cpanel has several backup utilities: one for all the regular files one for the mysql database and two types of email backups. 
In order to backup your files go to backups then select “back up home directory”. This will create zip file of EVERYTHING from the public_html directory that you can download and store on [...]

How to copy files from one directory to another

Assuming you are in the directory where you want to copy the files, use this Linux command:
cp -R * destination path

The Database Design Process

Designing a database properly is crucial to developing a strong and efficient information system. Proper planning and design not safeguards against a broad range of problems.
A poorly designed database can cause data to become inaccurate and unreliable. Performance can also take a hit and the database may not function properly.  A properly designed database is [...]

Ecommerce Web Site Solutions

Global Link technologies has extensive experience is developing ecommerce web sites for small to medium size businesses from a few products to thousands. The ecommerce solutions we develop are customized in design and optimized for search engines.
Read more about our Ecommerce Website Development

An Introduction to CakePHP

CAKEPHP is a rapid development framework that allows web developers to quickly develop a website using Cakes resources that are already provided. CakePHP uses the MVC structure or Model View Controller architecture to structure a website.
Model has to do with interacting with the database; View handles the web page layout and design of your website, [...]

How to use Load Data statement in MySQL

Below is a simple example of using a Load Data Local Infile statement in MySQL.

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ‘/sql/products-test.txt’ IGNORE
INTO TABLE old_products
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘    ’
LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’
(productID, title, description, vendor, domain, media, catalog);

How to Create a Table in SQL

Writing a create table statement in SQL is very straighforward. However, before you can create a table, you need to make sure you have already created your database.
The following is a statement that would create a table named products:
// products table
create table products (
productID varchar(20),
title varchar(100),
description mediumtext,
vendor varchar(100),
domain varchar(100),
media varchar(255),
catalog varchar(200)
);
Each create table statement in [...]

How to give alternate row shading to products listing in Zen Cart

When shopping carts list products, adding a little formatting and color to your web page can make all the difference.
for Zen cart row shading, simply add this CSS code to your style sheet.
.rowOdd {
background-color: #E8E8E8;
height: 1.5em;
vertical-align: top;
}
.rowEven {
background-color: #F0F0F0;
height: 1.5em;
vertical-align: top;
}
That’s it!

How to Center an Image on your web page using CSS

An effective way to center an image in CSS is by using a class within the DIV tags. Provided your image is placed within the div tags, give it the CSS class name of .centerimage below. This way, the style will center the img tag and your graphic.
.centerimage img {
display:block;
margin:auto;
}
Short and Simple.