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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Overview of this book

You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business. Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source. You'll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you'll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar. The book will then teach you to add e-commerce to your site so you can sell your products online. You'll add YouTube videos and Google maps to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers. The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Drupal Commerce module


We're going to install and configure a brand new e-commerce module for Drupal called Commerce.

The Commerce module is a new module for Drupal 7 that gives your site e-commerce ability and functionality while leveraging the new Drupal 7 fields API and fields configurations. This module looks to be the next major step in Drupal e-commerce integration; taking much of the Ubercart functionality and renovating it for Drupal 7's core content construction field's functionality.

The module has the same module developers behind it that contributed originally to Ubercart. This module may still have bugs and may also be a bit trickier to configure since it's a brand new module and does not have advanced documentation yet. In this section I'll guide you through installing and configuring the Commerce module.

Goal

Set up the Commerce module so you can add products and take online orders on your site using Commerce.

Additional modules needed

Commerce (http://drupal.org/project...