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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - connecting products and cart


If you now look at your Shop page and open a detailed view of any product, you will discover that there is still no cart functionality in it. The reason for it is that the Products module does not know that the Cart module has been installed and is ready for use. Let's connect two modules.

  1. 1. Open the admin area of the Products module (Content | Product Manager).

  2. 2. Click on the Preferences tab.

  3. 3. Select the Cart module from the field Cart Module.

  4. 4. Click on Submit and open detailed view of any product. You should see the button Add to My Cart in the detailed view of the product. If the product has some attributes additionally to the quantity field, then the attributes are displayed in a drop-down field besides it.

What just happened?

You have told the Products module what module has to be used for cart functionality. Test it and add some products to the cart right now. The products will be added, but there is no possibility to display the...