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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

The popularity of online shopping has increased drastically over the past few years. TYPO3 is fully equipped to meet all the challenges of modern electronic commerce. TYPO3 can be enlarged afrom a pure content-based online catalog to a fully-grown shop system with a variety of extensions. It may be easy to plan a website but when it comes to implementing the design and developing a successful e-commerce site, you might come across a lot of difficulties.This book teaches all the aspects of quickly setting up a feature-packed, easy-to-build e-commerce site—from basic installation and configuration of TYPO3 through adding features step-by-step to an example website. It demonstrates the setting up of an online TYPO3 e-commerce site from scratch and walks you through lucrative tips on attracting customers and maximizing profit.This book takes you through the creation of an appealing online shop in steps. It starts with the basics of TYPO3 and TYPO3 installation and shows how to use its standard features to begin construction of an online shop. It will help you improve the selling interface and handling of orders with new modules and other customizations. It discusses various template configurations and plugins. You will learn how to build attractive product catalogs, profiles for registered and unregistered users, and online shop SEO. You will also learn to provide effective search facilities for systematic navigation of your site. Further, various modules for payment and delivery will be discussed. Finally, you will learn how to manage and market your site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Adding search to the web page


Then, the extension is adjusted for our needs, which we can add in to the web page. You can add search functions like most of the extensions in TYPO3.

You need to create a new page or choose an existing page and add a General Plugin, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Choose "Indexed Search Engine" and save a new record. Visit your page from the FE side and test the new form in action.

Note that by default if you use the "indexed_search"extension indexing page, then you overlook these pages from the FE side. Therefore, the pages indexing takes place while you overlook, unless you are logged in to the back end. If you are logged in to the backend, your browsing of the frontend pages will not be indexed.

Using tt_products search, the extension template part ###ITEM_SEARCH### will be used:

<!-- ###ITEM_SEARCH### begin -
<form method="post" action="###FORM_URL###">
<INPUT size="30" maxlength="100" type="text" name="sword" value="###SWORD###"...