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Building Websites with e107

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Building Websites with e107

Overview of this book

e107 is a PHP-based content management system that uses the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. e107 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is completely free, totally customizable and in constant development. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It has a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore e107, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about building a site with the system. The book covers all the core features of e107, and it is thorough and incremental tutorial approach it gives you the understanding to experiment with advanced features and customization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Shopping Cart Plugin


With shopping cart plugins, you can increase the power of your e107 to offer different levels of merchandise. After discussing the products that Cuddle Care wanted to offer, I searched the http://www.e107coders.org site for e-commerce plugins. After viewing the various homepages for the plugins for ZoGo-Shop, CafePress, JB Shop, and EBay Auctions, the ZoGo-Shop seemed to provide the features and support that a small proprietor would need.

If you have skipped directly to this section, you need to upload the plugin using the same procedures as outlined in How to Install Plugins at the beginning of this chapter. Once the plugin is loaded, log in to the administrative interface and perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Select the Plugin Manager icon from the Plugins section.

  2. 2. Locate the Zogo-Shop plugin and select the Install button.

  3. 3. Just under the Plugin Successfully Installed message you will see [Configure]. Click on Configure (see screenshot on the next page).

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