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There’s a few files in your ZenCart installation that need to be edited. I found out which ones by trial-and-error, and by following some information found about Product Types on the ZenCart site. I quickly worked out the correct file combinations to get the desired result.

So, you want to go to your unzipped ZenCart files – I’m sure you’ve kept them on your hard drive, or on a disk somewhere. Open that sucker up, and edit the files with NotePad (or some other text editor – NO! Microsoft Word is NOT a text editor!). You need to find the following files:

• zencart/admin/includes/functions/general.php
• zencart/admin/includes/modules/update_product.php
• zencart/admin/includes/modules/product/collect_info.php
• zencart/admin/includes/modules/product/preview_info.php
• zencart/includes/modules/pages/product_info/ main_template_vars.php
• zencart/includes/temaples/YOUR TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

Open up each of these files – and before you do anything, append each filename with “OLD” and save it. (So “general.php” will become “generalOLD.php”.) This way, you have a backup of your good file configurations, and you can easily restore things if you need to.

Now, I basically did a “find” in each of these files – but don’t do this step yet in the “general.php” file – I think it’s the quickest method. So click at the first line of the file, and do a search for “products_description”. There will be several instances in each file. You want to copy every line you find, and paste the line directly beneath the original. Any instance of “products_description”, you want to add a “2″ to, so the second line becomes “products_description2″.

NOTE: this is case-sensitive. If you see any instances of “_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION” – which you will see several – leave them alone.

There will also be instances where you need to copy entire sections – not just a line or two. I’ll go over each file individually and show you what needs to be changed.