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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting the sort and search options for products and categories


This short recipe will conclude this chapter by setting how we want our products and categories to be seen, sorted, and searched. Exactly which settings you use will depend upon the goals of your store.

Getting ready

This recipe is divided into three short sections. Product and category sort order, which at the click of a drop-down list, will choose the order in which your shop's wares appear on the page. There are a surprising number of options.

Then we can choose from the same range of sort options and decide which of those options our customers should be allowed to choose from, if they want to change our default sort order.

And finally, we will take a look at choosing the fields we want our customers to be able to search for.

How to do it...

All of the preceding sections takes place on one handy page:

  1. From the VirtueMart control panel open the Configuration menu, click on the Configuration option, and then the Product Order Settings...