Admin Request Sanitization
How data is sanitized on the admin side
Code
Details for developers
Adding a child table to the products table
How to add a table linked to the products table by a foreign key
Adding a field to the customers table
How to add a field to the customers table
Adding a field to the products table
How to add a field to the products table
Adding a Status History Record to an Order
How to use the zen_update_orders_history function
Admin cron jobs
Creating a cron job in your admin
Auto Inclusion System
What files are automatically included?
Building a Form
Adding a custom form to collect data
Building a Home Page widget
Adding information to the admin dashboard
Building a Report
Adding a custom report for your needs
Configuration Data Validation - About
How is data validation done for configuration values?
Constants in Zen Cart
Program Constants
Creating a new Admin menu item
Best practices for adding a link to a menu
Creating or Modifying a table
Modifying the database schema
Displaying Custom Fields
How to show the custom fields you have added to the database
Extra Folders
extra_datafiles, extra_definitions, extra_functions and extra_configures
Init System
How Zen Cart bootstraps itself
Language Files - Developer Information on Array based Language files
Structure of Language Packs for Zen Cart 1.5.8 and above
Language Files - New vs Legacy in 1.5.8+
How legacy language defines are handled for Zen Cart 1.5.8 and above
Modifying a field in the products table
How to modify a field in the products table
Notifier Report for Zen Cart 1.5.8
Output of the Zen Cart Notifier Report plugin
Notifier Report for Zen Cart 2.0.0
Output of the Zen Cart Notifier Report plugin
Notifiers - List of for Zen Cart 1.5.8
A complete list of Zen Cart Notifiers
Notifiers - List of for Zen Cart 2.0.0
A complete list of Zen Cart Notifiers
Observer/Notifier System
About notifiers and observers
PHP Idioms
Coding practices you will see in recent versions of Zen Cart
PHP Updates
Handling changes to PHP
Product Types
Creating custom products with different data requirements
Program Flow
Execution Path for a Zen Cart Page Visit
Querying the Database
Using QueryFactory
Sorting an Admin menu
How admin menus can be sorted
Template Settings and the $tplSetting object
Overriding global settings per-template
Modules
Shipping, Payment and Order Total Modules
View Builders
A set of classes to aid in building pages/tables
Last modified September 13, 2020 by Scott C Wilson (354bf510).