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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By : Richard Carter
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

<p>Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.<br /><br />This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.<br /><br />Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exporting products from Drupal Commerce


There may be times that you need to export your products from Drupal Commerce for use in another system that doesn't yet integrate with it, or simply to export products from your store to import and update them en masse.

In this recipe, you'll see how to use Drupal Views to create an export of products within your Drupal Commerce store, which you can then use to either review your product data or import into another system.

Getting started

Exporting products from your store in bulk is not something that Drupal Commerce supports at the time of writing, so you will need to install the Views Data Export module (http://drupal.org/project/views_data_export).

Copy these files into the /sites/all/modules directory of your Drupal Commerce installation (or install through Drupal's control panel), and navigate to Site Settings | Modules in the administration panel to enable this module:

Note that the requirements of Views Data Export, and the Views and Chaos tools...