Cartage setup

How to setup Cartage, to work with both Joomla! and Zen Cart™.

Cartage Component

• Install Cartage using the component installer.
• Select the Cartage Configuration option from the components menu.
• Put in the server path to the Zen Cart™ admin configure.php file. Without this, Cartage cannot run the Zen Cart™ files to integrate the two systems.
• Once the file is found, you can then select the next steps. Set the first 6 steps to on, and click the Save button.
• Optional: If you are going to need users to have a Joomla! account, as well as a Zen Cart™ account, install the Community Builder plugin. This is done through Community Builder, not through the Joomla! extensions installer.

Cartage Module

Install this as a standard extension. You will then have the option to create a new Cartage module from the Module Manager section of Joomla!.

You can add additional module types (if you are using non-standard Zen Cart™ modules) by modifying the mod_cartage.xml file, specifically the option list. The value for this option should be the filename of the sidebox, without the file extension.

At this point we should be ready to start testing to make sure the integration has worked.