Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

Spice up your osCommerce website using 69 mouth-watering ready-made recipes

Key Features

• osCommerce expert "Monika in Germany" lets you in on her secrets on how to hack your way to that perfect osCommerce site
• Create new modules and custom-code your default osCommerce installation
• Add extensions and features like category driven designs and individual shipping modules

Book Description

What you will learn

• The book has 11 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of osCommerce.
• Chapter 1 equips you with a few very easy and very important changes to the basic design which will make developing and later modifying a whole new template a breeze.
• Chapter 2 will help you modify your navigation to ensure a smoother shopping experience for your customers.
• Chapter 3 covers infoboxes and turns you into an expert in tweaking them to your needs.
• Chapter 4 deals with one of the most important visual parts of your shop, the product display in the listings and the detail page.
• Chapter 5 outlines different methods to make searching on your site a fun experience. You want your customers to use your search and to find the products you want to sell to them.
• Chapter 6 highlights customizations of the checkout process, namely the flow from the shopping cart to the shipping and payment pages up to the order email.
• Chapter 7 talks about new shipping modules. You will learn how to adapt existing modules to create completely new rate systems for your shop.
• Chapter 8 focuses on existing payment modules and how they can be tweaked.
• Chapter 9 provides tips on efficiently using banners as a marketing tool.
• Chapter 10 is a goodie bag of extra special treats to indulge your sweet tooth.
• Chapter 11 tackles changes in the admin area. You alone will be the keeper of these secret recipes hidden to the public eye.

Who this book is for

This book is for people who are already familiar with osCommerce. It presumes a working knowledge of PHP and HTML, as well as basic understanding of phpMyAdmin for database inserts.