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Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By : George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras
Book Image

Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By: George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras

Overview of this book

<p>Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal. Ubercart leverages the advantages of Drupal's major core and contributed systems, providing your users with shopping cart functionality that integrates with other parts of your company or community web site. It can be used to sell shippable goods, downloadable products, recurring memberships, and event tickets, and to enable complex interactions with Drupal through various add-on contributions.<br /><br />This book guides you through the process of creating, administrating and marketing an online store, providing information and tips for raising your sales and your customer support. It will also show you how to maintain and add advanced capabilities to your company's eShop.<br /><br />If you are a merchant wanting to invest your precious time to update the online presence of your company, or a web site designer wanting to expand your business and offer innovative solutions to your clients, this book has been written for you. You don't need any programming experience to install and customize your electronic store. The procedure is well structured and easy and all we ask you to do is to follow some simple steps in order to complete some specific tasks in each chapter. The book will guide you through the installation and configuration of Drupal and Ubercart. From there it will cover specific areas like managing orders, customizing the frontend and user interface. At the end it covers the advanced topics of internet marketing techniques and Search Engine Optimization.<br /><br />When you reach the end of the book, you'll have a working store and you'll have obtained all the required knowledge to customize it to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal e-commerce with Ubercart 2.x
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Modules used in Chapter 2


In Chapter 2, we download and install Drupal, Ubercart, and all of the basic modules required to support or enhance our Drupal Ubercart e-store features. Some of these are:

Token

Token allows other modules to place small bits of text into specific placeholders.

Maintainers

Jeff Eaton, Greg Knaddison, Mike Ryan

Content Construcion Kit (CCK)

The Content Construction Kit is one of the most important modules in Drupal 6. It allows the creation of custom fields for every content type from the user interface.

Maintainers

Karen Stevenson, Marc Ferran, Moshe Weitzman, Yves Chedemois

Filefield

Filefield creates a field for CCK used to upload files.

Maintainers

Nathan Haug, Andrew Morton, Jakob Petsovits

Imagefield

Imagefield creates a field for CCK used to upload images.

Maintainers

Nathan Haug, Andrew Morton

ImageAPI

ImageAPI cooperates with other modules such as imagecache, and supports image manipulation libraries such as GD2 and ImageMagick.

Maintainer

Andrew Morton

ImageCache

ImageCache gives you the ability to create predefined image dimensions and easily transform your images to one or more of these dimensions.

Maintainer

Andrew Morton

Thickbox

Thickbox brings the Thickbox jQuery add-on (http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/) to Drupal. It shows texts, forms, images, or videos in a hybrid modal.

Maintainer

Fredrik Jonsson

Google Analytics

Google Analytics adds its tracking code to your store.

Maintainers

Alexander Hass, Mike Carter

Views

If CCK facilitates the import of data, Views makes it easier to present them. It allows the creation of powerful queries without writing a single line of code.

Maintainers

Earl Miles, Daniel Wehner, Derek Wright, Daniel F. Kudwien