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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - adding the checkout step


To enable the checkout process provided by the Orders module follow these steps:

  1. 1. Create a new content page (Content | Pages | Add New Content) and name it Checkout.

  2. 2. Add the following Smarty tag to the Content field of the Checkout page:

  3. {Orders}

  4. 3. Save and view the page in the browser. This page will display either the billing form if the user is logged in or the warning message if the user is not logged in or does not belong to special user group.

  5. 4. To connect the Cart module with the new Checkout page, in the admin console click on Extensions | Cart.

  6. 5. Select the tab Viewcart Form Templates and click on the Sample template (or your own template, if you have created one).

  7. 6. At the very end of the template in the Template Text field, add the following line of code:

{cms_selflink page="checkout"}

Note

The parameter page should contain the page alias of the page where the Smarty tag {Orders} has been added to the content.

  1. 7. Open your shop and...