MailHive and MailBeez and their respective installations have been successfully tested with Zen Cart v1.3.8 and v1.3.9f, running on PHP 5.2.11.
To begin, please make sure you have the latest MailBeez package. However, if you are not sure that you do have the latest release, please download the quickstart package above.
The installation is straight forward and can be done in a couple of minutes by following one simple step:
- copy new files
Requirements
You need to be able to upload new files to your Zen Cart shop.
FTP access to your Zen Cart installation
Step 1 – Copy new files
The “Quickstart Package” zip file contains several folders. The folder “catalog” contains the files and folders you need to copy into your shop root. Because Zen Cart does not use the default “admin” folder you need to be careful where to place “catalog/admin/mailbeez.php”
Copy the following file and folder to your shop’s root (where your index.php is located)
catalog/admin/mailbeez.php -> <Zencart-admin>/mailbeez.php
catalog/mailhive -> mailhive (folder)
catalog/mailhive.php -> mailhive.php
and the Zen Cart specific “drop-in installation files” located in
extras zencart (containing files and folders)
into their respective locations:
<Zencart-admin>/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/mailbeez_tools_dhtml.php
<Zencart-admin>/includes/extra_datafiles/mailbeez.php
includes/extra_datafiles/mailbeez.php
Note for Zencart 1.3.8
This step is not necessary for Zencart 1.3.9
If you would like to give MailBeez full template control over email generation (recommended) by bypassing the Zen Cart email template system, please go to
includes/functions/functions_email.php
find
$email_html = zen_build_html_email_from_template($module, $block);
change to
$email_html = (!is_array($block) && substr($block, 0, 6) == '<html>') ? $block : zen_build_html_email_from_template($module, $block);
This change (taken from Zencart 1.3.9) tells Zen Cart to check if the content starts with a valid html tag and – if not – applies the Zen Cart template system.
Please continue with Basic Configuration
