Book Image

OpenCart Theme and Module Development

By : Rupak Nepali
Book Image

OpenCart Theme and Module Development

By: Rupak Nepali

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
OpenCart Theme and Module Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrating HTML and CSS into the OpenCart theme


Once we've made our HTML and CSS ready by performing the preceding steps, we can move ahead to integrate them into our OpenCart theme. For this, we have to start by creating a new folder at catalog/view/theme location. We name it packttheme. Now we can start integrating them from the header, followed by the footer, modules and category pages, product page, and other pages.

Creating a new theme based on the default theme

So far, you've understood some general settings of an OpenCart theme. Now you are ready to create your own custom theme. As we know, OpenCart uses the MVCL pattern, so the view part is different from the core code. Therefore, we can find the OpenCart themes in the view folder. For the frontend, you can find the theme at the catalog/view/theme location, and for the admin, you can find it in admin/view. Right now, we are focusing on the frontend view only, so we perform our tasks in the catalog/view/theme folder. Let's start creating...