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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Custom fields – customizing products with versions and charging different prices for them


Often you will have a product available in more than one version. What about a black or white iPad? Or the download, DVD or Blu-ray version of VirtueMart the Movie. Of course it would be easy to implement a new product for each version, but that is not always what you want. If it makes sense in your version dilemma to have the versions selectable on one product page, then this is the recipe for you. And VirtueMart will handle the stock control for each version separately.

Getting ready

Write down the different versions you will create and make a note of the products you intend to apply them to. Fire up VirtueMart and read on.

How to do it...

We will do this over two stages much like the other custom field recipes:

  • First we create the custom field itself

  • Then we will add the custom field to a product

Steps for creating the custom field are as follows:

  1. In the Products menu click on the Custom Fields option. Now...