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VirtueMart Developer Manual

Soeren Eberhardt-Biermann

VirtueMart Lead Developer
 VirtueMart Project (www.virtuemart.net)

Copyright © 2005-2007 Soeren Eberhardt-Biermann

This document is published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Revision History

Revision 1.3 ; Date: May 2007 ; Author(s): soeren_nb
Updated for VirtueMart 1.1 (Themes, Templates, new Javascript Frameworks)
Revision 1.2 ; Date: December, 1st, 2005 ; Author(s): soeren_nb
Inserted the "Developer Guidelines" section
Revision 1.1 ; Date: November 21, 2005 ; Author(s): soeren_nb
Update for VirtueMart
Revision 1.0 ; Date: June 29, 2005 ; Author(s): soeren_nb
Initial Release (mambo-phpShop v1.2 stable-pl3)

Table of Contents

Preamble
1. Introduction
1.1. History
1.2. Differences to phpShop
1.3. Joomla! Integration
2. Basics
2.1. Directory and File Structure
2.2. Main Flow Chart
2.3. Core Modules & their Functions, Environment Variables
2.4. Database Structure
2.5. Database Access
2.6. User Integration
3. Modifying the Layout
3.1. Themes and Templates
3.2. Finding the right File
3.3. Modifying Templates
4. Creating or modifying Extensions
4.1. Payment Modules
4.2. Shipping Modules
5. Developer Guidelines
5.1. General
5.2. Coding Guidelines
5.3. SVN Access
5.4. Using SVN
5.5. Database
6. About the Project
6.1. The Project
6.2. Documentation
6.3. Homepage, Forum, Developer Resources

List of Figures

4.1. Payment Method Form, Tab 1
4.2. Payment Method Form, Tab 2
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