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Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By : Richard Jones
Book Image

Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By: Richard Jones

Overview of this book

Drupal Commerce is emerging as the preferred option for open source e-commerce, and it also stands up to comparison against established proprietary systems. Getting Started with Drupal Commerce is an introductory guide to building an online store using Drupal Commerce in Drupal 7. Getting Started with Drupal Commerce takes you step-by-step through a complete e-commerce website build, from a clean installation of Drupal to a working example store. Starting with how to set up a Drupal development environment, we then discuss the planning of an e-commerce site and the typical questions you should be asking before getting started. Next, we walk through all of the essential setup required for most types of e-shop, including taxes, shipping, discounts and coupons, the checkout process, and backend order management. By the end of Getting Started with Drupal Commerce, you will be fully-equipped to plan and build your own store and you will understand the fundamental principles of Drupal Commerce that will enable you to progress to more complex store builds.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Downloading Acquia Dev Desktop


If you have a working server environment that has the minimum requirements for running Drupal, you can skip straight to the Setting up a new Drupal site section.

Acquia Dev Desktop is a cross-platform Apache, MySQL, PHP (AMP) stack that contains everything you need for a local Drupal environment on both Windows and Mac OS X, which is available at http://acquia.com/downloads.

Once the file is downloaded, run the installer.

Accept all of the defaults and enter your credentials for accessing your new site. The Dev Desktop application will be installed in your applications folder.

When the application is running, a control panel will be visible, as shown in the following screenshot:

Open the following URL in your web browser:

http://localhost:8082

Note

The Acquia Dev Desktop package installs a configured Drupal profile, specifically for use with the Acquia cloud hosting services.

You will see a default Drupal installation as shown in the following screenshot: