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Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By : Richard Jones
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Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By: Richard Jones

Overview of this book

Drupal Commerce is emerging as the preferred option for open source e-commerce, and it also stands up to comparison against established proprietary systems. Getting Started with Drupal Commerce is an introductory guide to building an online store using Drupal Commerce in Drupal 7. Getting Started with Drupal Commerce takes you step-by-step through a complete e-commerce website build, from a clean installation of Drupal to a working example store. Starting with how to set up a Drupal development environment, we then discuss the planning of an e-commerce site and the typical questions you should be asking before getting started. Next, we walk through all of the essential setup required for most types of e-shop, including taxes, shipping, discounts and coupons, the checkout process, and backend order management. By the end of Getting Started with Drupal Commerce, you will be fully-equipped to plan and build your own store and you will understand the fundamental principles of Drupal Commerce that will enable you to progress to more complex store builds.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up a new Drupal site


For the purposes of demonstration in this book, we do not need the extra Acquia modules active. Instead, we want a clean Drupal install with Drupal Commerce, so we will now set up a new website.

Tip

You can download and install a kickstart version of Drupal Commerce which will set up a number of defaults and immediately give you a demonstration store to experiment with. However, this book is intended to take you step-by-step building on your understanding in each chapter. Download Kickstart from http://www.drupal.org/project/ commerce_kickstart.

The following are the steps for setting up a new Drupal site:

  1. Download the latest version of Drupal 7 from the http://drupal.org/project/drupal link as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Uncompress the downloaded file to Sites in your User folder.

    Tip

    We suggest renaming the uncompressed folder to simply drupal in place of the downloaded version's name of drupal-7.xx. This is a convention rather than necessity, but will simplify...