[plug] Zencart help?

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 17:15, James Devenish wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message <1098608756.2893.17.camel at localhost>
> on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:05:57PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > I couldn't figure out how to cleanly (without copying all the files
> > one by one) apply the whole patch (without overwriting the other
> > directories) though.
> 
> Hmm...I understand your difficulty --- they certainly haven't made it
> easy or obvious! My first guess (and this might look crazy, but it
> should work) is to do this:
> 
> % cd zen-cart-v1.2.1-patch1
> % tar cf - . | ( cd /path/to/installed/zen-cart-v1.2.1d/ && tar xf - )
> % cd ..
> % rm -r zen-cart-v1.2.1-patch1
> 
> The /path/to/installed/zen-cart-v1.2.1d/ is the one that contains
> INSTALL.TXT and index.php.
> 
> Note: this is based on the comment in the readme.txt file that says "The
> files above can be considered as replacements for the original files in
> your v1.2.1 release." I hope I have not misunderstood.
> 

Thanks James I will try this out after I eat something :)

Also in the :: Zen Cart™ Setup - System Inspection page it said that
MySQL support is off (probably the reason why I had the problem in the
first place) 

A quick apt-get install php4-mysql fixed this.

thanks,

Chris Caston