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Written by Max Milbers   
Friday, 13 November 2009 03:33

Virtuemart was a standalone market before Sören made it as a component for joomla, so it is not written in the usual joomla way. This makes it unattractive for many developers.

Despite the former idea to write a complete new market, we decided to rewrite the vm1.2 code. The new philosophy is to rewrite vm1.2 step by step to MVC and to use the native joomla methods as best as possible.

We call that version vm1.5. At the moment we rewrite already the backend views. By that way we get rid off old bugs and clean the code. There are already a lot of new features in vm1.2 so we dont want to add features. First priority is to get a sophisticated smooth running code in joomla MVC style.

Everyone is welcome to help us. The more people help us the more views will be done in the first release. We dont need people who tell us what would be a cool feature and what the new version should contain. Write your ideas in the forum you can be sure it will be discussed.

We need people who want to actually do something. If you want to write some feature that cant be written as module, you can do it so long you do not disturb others in developing and the release cycles. But you should rewrite a small view first.

If you dont want to code, but help us, you can write documentation or test the newest virtuemart. As docwriter/tester you have a great influence to get features that are comfortable to use.

The vision is to have a market that is opensource, using joomla, flexible, easy to use and fast.

 So long Max

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This is very exciting news! I had always wondered to the unorthodox coding and so the rewrite to MVC style will be a VERY welcome thing. This is a huge step in the right direction for the project and I really hope to see it go well.

I love really love for the templating system to be much more flexible. If we could make it anything like the Joomla template system I would be blissful!

I'll be signing up to the developer community and I'll give a hand where I can. Thanks to the new Virtuemart team! Hope things more along well!!
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November 14, 2009
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Markus Bühler
Markus Bühler: yippie http://www.kau-gummi.de
oh this is wonderful.
Although I am not a programmer i will see how i can contribute, may it only be a little donation.
I see the more than great potential of virtuemart, a huge community and a shop integrated in Joomla.
And I am happy that this big chance is going on.
I wish great success for the new version!
Markus
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November 16, 2009
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Bob Jenson: Top news! http://www.actiononline.co.nz
I'm looking forward to VM1.5 already. Thanks for keeping this wonderful extension alive and growing.
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December 07, 2009
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Roger Garcia: Very good news http://www.webcity.es
I have seen VM taking one step ahead with the last version, and now what you are planning is wonderful.
I am also not a programmer but I will try to support you in any way I can.
Roger
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December 16, 2009
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Roger Garcia: Very good news http://www.webcity.es
VM is going the right way. Thank you guys for your effort. I am also not a programmer but I will try to support you in some way I can.
Roger
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December 16, 2009
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EDen: ...
This is good new,
Virtumart shall stop supporting j1.0 and mambo in pro of better features
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March 06, 2010
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nike air max: new http://www.nikelink.com
it is wonderful that everything is new
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March 09, 2010
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