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Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development

By : Rupak Nepali
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Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development

By: Rupak Nepali

Overview of this book

OpenCart is an online shopping tool which is free to use. It has become widely popular because of its support for custom extensions and module development. This book helps you understand how to use the features available in OpenCart using step-by-step instructions. Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development gives you step-by-step explanations and illustrations on how to clone, customize, and develop modules and pages with OpenCart. This book shows you how to create custom OpenCart modules and pages which are needed as per the requirements of the clients to manage custom data. It describes each and every code used to make a Hello World module, a feedback module, a tips module, an order total module, and a shipping and payment module. The book covers installing, configuring, and uninstalling modules as well as how to clone them. It also discusses all the available Global Library methods of OpenCart as well as ways to handle the files and folders of a shipping and payment module. At the end of the book, you will learn how to make custom pages to manage data by creating a feedback module and how to create the order total using a tips module. In Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development, you will learn everything you need to know to create custom OpenCart modules.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Chapter 1. Getting Started with OpenCart Modules

OpenCart is an e-commerce cart application built with its own in-house framework that uses the Model View Controller (MVC) language pattern; thus each module in OpenCart also follows the MVCL patterns. The controller creates logic and gathers data from the model and passes it to display them in the view. The OpenCart modules have admin and catalog folders. The files in the admin folder help in controlling the settings of modules and the files in the catalog folder handle the presentation layer (frontend). Each module has its own files by which it gets modular, and changing one module's file does not affect other modules.