What Joins Joomla, CMS and Ecommerce?

So, what is CMS?

A content management system (CMS) supports the creation, management, distribution, publishing, and discovery of corporate information.

It covers the complete lifecycle of the pages on your site, from providing simple tools to create the content, through to publishing, and finally to archiving.

It also provides the ability to manage the structure of the site, the appearance of the published pages, and the navigation provided to the users.

Note that we are focusing on the most common use of a CMS: to manage web content. In some circles, these systems are therefore called web management systems (WMS).

Why Is Joomla The Best Content Management System

Joomla can be installed manually from source code on a system running a web server which supports PHP applications. Manual installation in most cases requires more time and experience than other alternate options such as installing Joomla from a package management system or using a TurnKey Joomla appliance which pre-integrates Joomla and its dependencies as a ready-to-use system.

Know Your Virtuemart Joomla Ecommerce Solution

VirtueMart is the superior open source e-store solution for the incredibly popular Joomla! Framework. VirtueMart Shopping Cart Bundle is not an official release of the Joomla! Project.

Virtuemart Joomla Extension Features

Virtuemart Shopping Cart Program 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.

Because Virtuemart Joomla Ecommerce Solution 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.

VirtueMart Hosting Requirements

As Virtuemart Web Store Solution is only a plugin for Joomla! / Mambo, it has the same system requirements, which are currently:

• Joomla! 1.0.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 4.4.x
• MySQL 3.23.x or above -recommended: MySQL 4.0.x
• Apache 1.13.19 or above -recommended: Apache 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.

Understanding VirtueMart Joomla Themes

Templates for Virtuemart are Joomla-based templates created especially for enabling you to run a premium shopping cart on your website. Themes For Virtuemart were professionally designed to create the most functional and convenient environment for the maximum eCommerce performance.