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VirtueMart 
Developer(s) Max Milbers and Team Stable release 1.1.8 Stable / March 21, 2011[1] Operating system Cross-platform Type Webshop License GNU General Public License Website http://virtuemart.net/ VirtueMart (formerly known as mambo-phpShop) is an open source e-commerce solution designed as an extension of the Mambo or Joomla! content management systems (CMS). VirtueMart is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database environment for storage. It is best suited for low to medium level traffic web-sites.
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History
VirtueMart began as off shoot of the stand-alone phpShop[2][3] e-commerce web application. Originally dubbed mambo-phpShop it became the first substantial native e-commerce component for the Mambo CMS system. After the community forked Mambo into Joomla, the developer re-branded mambo-phpShop as VirtueMart, officially supporting the newer Joomla CMS. While current implementations may still function with Mambo CMS, and older editions of mambo-phpShop are still available to download, they are no longer actively supported. Since September 2009 a new team is developing Virtuemart 2. The estimated release time for a stable version is June 2011.
Features
VirtueMart supports an unlimited number of products and categories, with products able to be assigned to multiple categories. It also permits the sale of downloadable products, and offers a catalog mode where the shopping cart features are turned off. VirtueMart supports multiple prices for a single product, based around shopper groups or a quantity range, and permits the use of a variety of different payment gateways.[4]
Because VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution all the application code is openly visible in PHP. This allows PHP developers to view, update or customize the operation of the shopping cart. In addition VirtueMart itself offers simplified templates ( called 'fly pages' in VirtueMart) structure that allows various shopping and cart page(s) to be edited as standard html and css.
Notably new to VirtueMart 1.1.0 was the inclusion of the ability to quickly change themes for category, product, checkout and cart pages.[5]
Virtuemart is supported by an iPhone app by iVMStore. [6]
Requirements
As VirtueMart is only a plugin for Joomla! / Mambo, it has the same system requirements, which are currently:
- Joomla! 1.0.x/1.5.x or Mambo (>= 4.5.1) recommended: Joomla! 1.5.x (VirtueMart will soon only work with 1.5 or above).
- PHP 4.2.x or above - recommended: PHP 5.2.x
- MySQL 3.23.x or above -recommended: MySQL 5.0.x
- Apache 1.13.19 or above -recommended: Apache 2.2.x
Several other required supporting libraries or extensions include MySQL, XML and Zlib support built into PHP. Support for https (openSSL) and cURL is recommended. [7]
Compatibility
The latest versions of VirtueMart 1.1.x are compatible with Joomla 1.5.x Natively.
Instruction books
- Sarkar, Suhreed (2009). Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart: Build feature-rich online stores with Joomla! 1.0/1.5 and VirtueMart 1.1.x. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-847196-74-3.
See also
- Zen Cart
- OsCommerce
- Magento
- PrestaShop
- MageBridge
- SOBI2
- UddeIM
- Batavi (software)
References
- ^ http://virtuemart.net/news/list-all-news/400-security-release-virtuemart-118
- ^ 1.2. Differences to phpShop - Virtuemart
- ^ Phpshop <> Virtuemart - phpShop - Forums (2007-06-24) - "Virtuemart only exists as a component of Mambo/Joomla. Phpshop is a standalone application. Virtuemart is based upon much of the underlying logic and code for phpShop, but the 2 are not compatible."
- ^ VirtueMart Features
- ^ VirtueMart Themes
- ^ iPhone app for Virtuemart
- ^ Virtuemart Requirements
VMJunction.com For Various style of Virtuemart Themes.
External links
Categories:- Free electronic commerce software
- Joomla extensions
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