wePrint Design Studio Intallation Guide

Before Installing

You will need:

  1. REQUIRED: ftp account info for your site (ftp address, ftp username, and ftp password
  2. RECOMMENDED: your database setup info (username, location and password.)

wePrint with Zen Cart

The popular Zen Cart ecommerce platform is now the default cart for the wePrint Design Studio. The design studio can be embedded into a Zen Cart page and the design studio can communicate with the shopping cart so that products can be added to the customer's cart. By default the design studio is integrated within page_3 of Zen Cart. Page 3 is a generic page that is listed in the "More Information" sidebox. This document describes the process of installing the wePrint Design Studio, installing Zen Cart, and modifiying the basic setup. A working demo of the design studio with Zen Cart is located at: weprint.com. You should read the documents at the Zen Cart site before installation, so you will be familar with the details. Also, you will need to verify that your server meets the requirements of the Zen Cart installation. Here are some useful Zen Cart documents:

There are many more tutorials on the Zen Cart site. We highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the basics before starting the install.

Install the wePrint Design Studio

  1. Run the wePrint test page that is provided with the demo download. This is done by uploading the file
    weprint-test.php to your site and then browsing to that page.
  2. If you have any FAIL messages, check with your host on fixing the issue(s).
  3. If everything passes than continue with the next steps.
  4. Setup your database according to the DB setup guide.
  5. Configure the following files according to the initial configuration guide. NOTE: Do Not use a formatting type word processor for editing these files (i.e. Microsoft Word). Use an HTML editor or simple text editor. If you do not have a professional web editing platform (such as Adobe Dreamweaver), then we recommend Notepad ++ as a good web page editor. It is a free tool and can be downloaded HERE
    • connect_sql.php
    • convert_location.php
    • includes/wep_tool_config.xml
    • includes/shop-defaults.xml

    Some files can be edited later:

    • definitions.php (this file contains most of the text within the design studio)
    • includes/DT1.js (at the top of this file are many of the tool tips and other messages that appear within the design studio. DO NOT edit any code below these variables)
  6. Upload the entire designstudio folder to your server. The files need to go into the same directory that you Zen Cart store will be located. Example: http://www.mydomain.com/designstudio or http://www.mydomain.com/store/designstudio.
  7. Change the permissions for the following folders to 777 (775 if your host does not allow 777):
    • images
    • saveddesigns
    • admin/files
    • admin/images
    • admin/saveddesigns
    • printadmin/saveddesigns
  8. Navigate to your design studio page (http://mydomain.com/designstudio)
  9. If you have problems please refer to the post-install guide for common install issues.
  10. Once you have the design studio running normally, please follow the steps in the next section for Zen Cart installation

Installation of Zen Cart

  1. If you have not done so already download the zen cart package from the link above.
  2. Follow the Zen Cart installation instructions provided on their site HERE
  3. During the installation you will be presented with a screen similar to an image in figure 1. Be sure to fix any issues. Most importantly, you need to set the permissions on the appropriate directories.
  4. Once your Zen Cart site is running (out-of-the-box), upload the weprint1-zencart-integration files to the zen cart directory as follows:
    1. By default the wePrint zencart template is set to english as the language. If you are running your store in a different language, you will need to change each directory named english in the includes directory to your language. Drill down into the includes directory and change any directory from english to your language. Once you have change the directory names you may now upload the files as follows:
    2. Upload 6 files to your top-level ZC directory (wep_addcart.php, wep_addcart_IQ.php, wepcart_options.php, wepcart_options_IQ.php, zen-options.xml, zen-options-IQ.xml)
    3. Upload - the entire includes directory. This will add the weprint template to zencart. The Name of the template is weprint1.
  5. By uploading the weprint1 directories, you are creating a template that can be used within your Zen Cart store
  6. Login to your ZC admin page and change the template to the weprint1. (zen cart admin menu - Tools::Template selection)
  7. Loading the template will disable the sideboxes. So, turn-on the side boxes you want (i.e. more informtion, information, search, cart). The more information sidebox contains the link to the design studio page (zencart page_3).(zencart admin menu - Tools::Layout Boxes Controller)
  8. If you are not using page 2 or page 4. You can turn them off by going to - Configuration::Define
    Pages Status.
  9. At this point you should have a design studio page similar to - our demo page