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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

The popularity of online shopping has increased drastically over the past few years. TYPO3 is fully equipped to meet all the challenges of modern electronic commerce. TYPO3 can be enlarged afrom a pure content-based online catalog to a fully-grown shop system with a variety of extensions. It may be easy to plan a website but when it comes to implementing the design and developing a successful e-commerce site, you might come across a lot of difficulties.This book teaches all the aspects of quickly setting up a feature-packed, easy-to-build e-commerce site—from basic installation and configuration of TYPO3 through adding features step-by-step to an example website. It demonstrates the setting up of an online TYPO3 e-commerce site from scratch and walks you through lucrative tips on attracting customers and maximizing profit.This book takes you through the creation of an appealing online shop in steps. It starts with the basics of TYPO3 and TYPO3 installation and shows how to use its standard features to begin construction of an online shop. It will help you improve the selling interface and handling of orders with new modules and other customizations. It discusses various template configurations and plugins. You will learn how to build attractive product catalogs, profiles for registered and unregistered users, and online shop SEO. You will also learn to provide effective search facilities for systematic navigation of your site. Further, various modules for payment and delivery will be discussed. Finally, you will learn how to manage and market your site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

User identification and user accounts


The system extension felogin that provides user authentication is included in TYPO3. This extension provides registered users with authentication to your web page. For setting up this extension, you need to make a new content element and choose Login from the list, Pagecontent.

Add a title; and specify the page where the user will be redirected after authentication. If necessary, specify in the setup tab that the login form will be hidden after user identification.

For editing users' data, you can use the sr_feuser_register extension, which provides user registration and data editing. For manually turning on the editing form, specify code EDIT in the configuration (you can find detailed information about the possible version of extension configuration in the official TYPO3 web page, and also read the sr_feuser_register manual— http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/sr_feuser_register/current/), as shown in the following screenshot...