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OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By : Murat Yilmaz
Book Image

OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>OpenCart is a popular open source shopping cart solution and provides elegantly written tools to establish a fully functional online store from scratch in a very short time with intuitive screens. It can be a difficult task for beginners to go beyond the basics and apply all the features, which they will require for their businesses.</p> <p>This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing OpenCart, helping you start feature-rich, professional online stores easily. It also teaches you how to organize your online store effectively in terms of products, payments, shipping, orders, and customer relations.</p> <p>OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide will teach you how to build a store that can take control of all the online shopping needs. You will be able to run multiple shops in a single installation. You will learn how to set up products and correctly organize in categories. You will correctly integrate a payment gateway and shipping method after reading the comparisons and applying the examples. You will learn how to define taxes and apply them according to the geolocation of a customer. This book also teaches you how to manage orders and customers. You can impress your customers and increase the availability of the website to more people with the help of this practical guide. Additionally, the book also teaches you how to use design templates and apply SEO (search engine optimization) to make the store more visible for search engine queries.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – editing the text in a language file


In this section, we will learn how to change the Manufacturer keyword into Brand on the product details page in the relevant English language file. The following screenshot shows the keyword which we will rename:

  1. OpenCart has a very well designed MVC-L (Model-View-Controller-Language) based structure which helps us to easily change any files, including language files.

    Note

    For coders who want to understand MVC-L software development principles more, try:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller

    Other readers can continue reading the following section.

    Every OpenCart URL shows the directory where related PHP files are located on web server. In our example, the product details URL is:

    http://www.yourstore.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=49

    What we need to do is look at the route parameter carefully. We see that it is product/product. This tells us that the language file which we will edit is located under...