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From the posting that you made on the Zen Cart forums, the DIR_FS_CATALOG setting can be found (and then copied/pasted) from your store’s /includes/configure.php file.

I am stil having issues. Everything looks to be set up right. I uploaded a screen shot to the other form I have been chatting in.

According to the screen shot you posted, your zen4wp configuration was “accepted”. Now you’ve got some issue with “Connections Business Hours”.

can you email me ? [email protected]

Apologies.. but the SLOW response is because neither lat9 or I get notifications from this forum. (I signed up fro them and STILL don’t get them..)

It’s better if you let lat9 and I help you here.. the benefit of this forum is that if others are having the same issues they can benefit fom your questions and the responses..

Okay.. I’ve read everything now and i’m all caught up.. now that your settings are correct, I’m not clear on what the issue is at this point. Can you provide more details??

the plugin won’t talk I keep getting this error. No configuration keys were found in the table zen_configuration. Either the value you entered for ZEN_DB_PREFIX on the Zen4WP Settings Page is not correct or WordPress and Zen Cart do not share the same database (a REQUIRED prerequisite as CLEARLY stated in the Zen4WP readme.txt). Go to Zen4WP Settings Page to check your settings and properly configure Zen4WP.

OK, have you checked that:
– The DB_PREFIX value that is in your Zen Cart’s /includes/configure.php file is ‘zen_’ (since that’s apparently how you’ve configured zen4wp)?
– That your database contains tables that start with both ‘zen_’ and ‘wp_’? If not, then your database isn’t shared between the Zen Cart and WordPress installations. You’ll most likely need to use your web-host’s cPanel’s phpMyAdmin tool to check this out.

where would I find this in cPanel ?

It depends on your cPanel; it’s a database function.

Will this plugin work with either Zen Cart 1.5.4 or 1.5.5 and WordPress 4.4.2?

I have carefully followed all the steps, making sure to match my database name, username and passwords. Both sites worked fine until i renamed the files in the WP plugin and uploaded to my test site.

The results I got were that after clicking any link in the admin I did NOT see any messages, so i think the installation did not happen.

And while the admin area still works the site brings up a completely blank screen.

Any suggestions other than using old versions of ZC? We definitely need the new version of that.

tia

Sandra

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FYI: I DO see the following in the ZC Admin’s Layout Boxes Controller:

• sideboxes/classic/wp_pages_sidebox.php
• sideboxes/classic/wp_archives_sidebox.php
• sideboxes/classic/wp_categories_sidebox.php

Sandra, it looks like you’re talking about wp4zen which is a Zen Cart plugin used to tie-in WordPress. Its support-forum is here; please take your questions there. Short answer to your question, though, I’m using the current version of wp4zen on my v1.5.4 Zen Cart and WordPress 4.4.2.

This discussion is about zen4wp, a WordPress plugin that enables WordPress posts to more easily integrate products from the associated Zen Cart installation.

YEAH I figured it out!

The complete local/physical path to your WordPress files MUST end in a slash.

Once I added that, all worked and I can now see

@sandrawordpressforum – Glad you figured it out, but in the future you really should start your own thread when you have questions or issues..

@cbelter – lat9is right.. The message you’re getting indicates that either your database prefix in your Zen4WP settings is incorrect or your WordPress and Zen Cart installations do not share a database (a KEY requirement for this plugin to work)

Look in your wp-config.php file for WordPress these defines:

define('DB_NAME', 'your_database');    // The name of the database
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'your_database_username');     // Your MySQL username
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your_database_password'); // ...and password

If WordPress and Zen Cart are SHARING the same database, then they will MATCH these defines in Zen Cart’s configure.php file

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'your_database_username');
  define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'your_database_password');
  define('DB_DATABASE', 'your_database');

Additionally your Zen4WP database prefix setting must match this define in your configure.php file:

// define our database connection
define('DB_PREFIX', 'your_database_prefix');

If your setup doesn’t look like this then this is why the Zen4WP plugin isn’t working.

If your WordPress and Zen Cart installations aren’t SHARING the same database, then you will need to combine your WordPress and Zen Cart databases and update one of the configuration files (WordPress or Zen Cart) to use the combined database.

The basic steps are:

1. Export (dump) your WordPress database, and import the resulting dump SQL into your Zen Cart database (or vice versa dump the Zen Cart database and import to the WordPress database)
2. Update the configuration file of either WordPress or Zen Cart (depends on which direction you did the database combination) to use the combined database.

If you are unfamiliar with HOW to do this, you may need to hire someone to help you with this task. While lat9 and I are certainly able and willing to provide as much basic instruction here in this forum for combining your databases, it may be difficult to execute the work required if you are not familiar with how to use your web-host’s cPanel’s phpMyAdmin tool. Different hosts use different versions of phpMyAdmin so giving specific instruction for how to access your host’s phpMyAdmin Admin will be difficult.