Zen Cart Collect Info Through Tabs In New Style (CITTINS)

Table of Contents

• Attention
• Information
• Features
  • Category and Product Listing
  • Category edit
  • Product edit
  • Product Layout Editor
• Some screen shots
• Installation

Attention

This module is still under development. Currently we are at version 2.0.0 beta 9.

The latest stable version is 1.0.2 found here.

Information

The current collect info page can be quite long, and is not very user friendly. Therefore I started searching for a better solution.

After looking at many other shopping cart frameworks, I got a pretty good idea of how I wanted the new collect info page to look. It became a page with tabs for different categories of information. The default tabs are:

• General
• Data
• Manufacturer
• Image
• Metatags

This is the information that is currently available by default on the product collect info pages.

New tabs can easily be added. I added a few available in the "Extra_tabs" folder. These are:

• attributes
• category
• information
• quantity discounts

Copy these folders to your server, and Cittins will pick them up, and display them.

Additional information can be found in the documentation folder.

Features

There are many new features added to the Zen Cart functionality. Below I mentioned some per page.

Category and Product Listing

• Improved page layout and styling
• Easy sorting by using the arrows in the table heading
• Set which columns you want to see on screen
• Added buttons to navigate up on folder, or go to the top level
• Checkboxes to delete move or copy multiple categories or products at once.

Category edit

• Tabs are added to split the shown data into smaller blocks
• After saving you stay on the edit page. This makes storing you edits easier on long edit sessions

Product edit

• Tabs are added to split the shown data into smaller blocks
• After saving you stay on the edit page. This makes storing you edits easier on long edit sessions
• Extra tabs can be added to show more data, and allowing to edit it in one go. Without the need to go to a separate page
• Add/Edit/Delete Main image, and additional images

Product Layout Editor

• Select which fields show in the collect info page
• Edit the sort order and tabs, fields are shown on
• Add/Edit/Delete tabs and or fields

Some screen shots

Installation

Installation is simple:

1. Download CITTINS
2. Unzip the downloaded zip file
3. Read the instructions from the readme found in the documentation folder, or here.