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Zen Cart YouTube Gallery

A Zen Cart™ mod which allows you to show your YouTube videos on a page in your cart.

Relevance: Zen Cart™ 1.5.0 and above

Current Version: 1.0 (version history)

Support Thread: YouTube Gallery Support Thread

Cost: Free. See credits list if you wish to express your appreciation.

Installed Cost: $200.00 Buy Professional Installation by That Software Guy

Installation Difficulty: Moderate-High

Installation Instructions: click here

Location: Zen Cart Plugins, under Marketing Tools

Download: YouTube Gallery in Zen Cart Plugins

See it Live: Go to my store.


Overview:

If you have a bunch of video for products in your store that you want to show off, this module will help you do that.

Installation Instructions:

Pre-Installation

  1. Login to YouTube and create a simple browser API key. Authorize it for your domain, i.e. if your domain name is mydomain.com, authorize the key for
    *.mydomain.com/*
    This will be done from Google Developer's Console; search for "YouTube API Key" for current instructions on how to do it.

Installation Instructions

  1. Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing it on a live shop.
  2. Unzip the file you have received.
  3. Rename "custom" to your template name in all places where it occurs. Note: If you are using Zen Cart 1.5.5 or higher, your template name will be "responsive_classic" if you have not changed it.
  4. Go to the files directory, then copy all files to the root of your shop.
  5. Add the page to the Information sidebox. Modify
    includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/information.php
    
    and add
    $information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_VIDEOS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_VIDEOS. '</a>';
    
  6. Add the page to your sitemap. Modify
    includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_site_map_default.php
    
    and add
    <li><?php echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_VIDEOS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_VIDEOS . '</a>'; ?></li>
    
  7. To get the pagination buttons, you must include the font-awesome font set. The easiest way is just to modify
    includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/html_header.php 
    
    and at the end of the CSS imports, add
    <link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    

Major Versions

  • 1.0 02/01/2016 - First Release

This module is based off the YouTube Plugin by @bachors. He originally posted the mod here. If you like this module, please make a donation to him.

Page structure adapted from the About Us mod, by various authors.

Final integration by That Software Guy.