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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)

About the Reviewers

Jack W. Davis is an e-commerce developer specializing in OpenCart and on-page SEO for online stores. He runs an OpenCart development company called Destrove, which has helped hundreds of businesses expand, upgrade, and design their e-commerce stores. With years of development experience and a creative outlook on software design, Jack has become a recognized figure in OpenCart development communities.

Jack also runs a popular e-commerce news and tutorial website www.CartAdvisor.com, where he spends most of his time writing about e-commerce software and helping others customize their online stores.

Aditya Menon is an experienced developer, and the web is his primary platform. Aditya works for Adbhuth, a privately held start-up. An overview of his strengths, functions, and aspirations include predominantly using PHP and JavaScript. He has written and improvised applications working with teams from across five continents. He is happy to produce and extend intelligently built code bases, with exemplary architectures. He also follows industry standards and best practice discussions closely, and acts on wisdom gained from these arenas. Aditya is currently a consultant and a developer on multiple start-up teams from across the world. He is constantly on the lookout for new tools and techniques to make development faster, easier, and more joyful. He looks at a future where technology in general and software in particular, play even more important and impressive roles in human life. Learning new languages and paradigms to build these tools of the future is what delights him the most. He currently lives in New Delhi, India. He is a 23-year-old man, eager to travel the world, and explore new opportunities.