In this chapter, we will walk through the latter half of the shopping life cycle, from the time that a product is added to the shop basket to the time that the customer finishes with the order. We will first explain how the shop basket data is stored in the server and look at the various elements on the shop cart page. A major part of these discussions will focus around the basket
template group. Next, we will cross the border to the checkout
template group and follow every page in the checkout process. For each of the checkout steps, there are associated templates. We will look at each of the templates and see how they can be customized to fit our needs. While working through the exercises, we will introduce further techniques that can be employed to customize VirtueMart without hacking into the core files.
Briefly, in this chapter, we cover:
Shop basket data and shop basket display
Shop cart page
Checkout steps
Login/registration and shipping...