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Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development

By : Rupak Nepali
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Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development

By: Rupak Nepali

Overview of this book

OpenCart is an online shopping tool which is free to use. It has become widely popular because of its support for custom extensions and module development. This book helps you understand how to use the features available in OpenCart using step-by-step instructions. Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development gives you step-by-step explanations and illustrations on how to clone, customize, and develop modules and pages with OpenCart. This book shows you how to create custom OpenCart modules and pages which are needed as per the requirements of the clients to manage custom data. It describes each and every code used to make a Hello World module, a feedback module, a tips module, an order total module, and a shipping and payment module. The book covers installing, configuring, and uninstalling modules as well as how to clone them. It also discusses all the available Global Library methods of OpenCart as well as ways to handle the files and folders of a shipping and payment module. At the end of the book, you will learn how to make custom pages to manage data by creating a feedback module and how to create the order total using a tips module. In Getting Started with OpenCart Module Development, you will learn everything you need to know to create custom OpenCart modules.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Detailed description of the Featured module


The Featured module highlights specific products so that they will be helpful in increasing the sales and lets users know which products are highlighted.

Configuring the Featured module in OpenCart 1.5.5.1

In this section, you will see how to configure the Featured module in OpenCart and likewise you can configure other modules as per the requirements:

  1. Log in to the Administrator dashboard, hover over the Extensions tab, and then click on Modules to see a list of modules. If the Featured module is not already installed, click on [Install].

  2. In order to configure a featured product, click on [Edit]. On clicking, the following screen is seen:

  3. Now start typing the name of the products, and it will auto complete and pop-out the list of the name of the products that matches the words with the product name. Choose the product that you want to show at the featured products, and it will show in the list.

  4. Now, to add another product, just type again and choose...