VirtueMart Wiki¶

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla!. Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made for easy use in a PHP/MySQL Environment.
VirtueMart is the leading Online-Shop Solution for Joomla! with more than 2 million downloads so far.

Requirements:

• Joomla 1.5 or higher
• PHP 5.2 and 5.3
• MySQL 5

Getting Started with VirtueMart Development¶

Nightly Builds
A note to new Developers

User Resources¶

Installation
Installation of VirtueMart 2 with provided packages
Manual installation/update of VM2
Create virtuemart installer¶

Upgrading/Migration
Upgrading VM1 to VM2 with provided packages
Migrate Joomla! 1.0 (incl. VirtueMart) to Joomla! 1.5
Latest live update information¶

Admin User Manual [In progress]
Products Menu
Orders & Shoppers Menu
Manufacturers Menu
Shop Menu
Configuration Menu
Tools Menu¶

Instructions, explanations, howtos, hints
Hints for the use of the template system
General JS-Problems with templates and jQuery
Product custom fields without stock control
Product custom fields with stock control
Product custom fields Plugin Customer Text Input
Webservices usage
Tools¶

Support resources¶

Writing documentation
Writing translation
Developing a module or plugin for Virtuemart 2

Developer resources¶

Developer guideline
- Setting up a Development Environment
-- Create virtuemart installer
- general php hints
- Coding standards and hints for Virtuemart
- GUI standard
Plugin system
Using Docblocks for quality code documentation
API documentation
Version infrastructure
Test cases

VirtueMart Versions¶

Version History
VirtueMart 1.5.x
VirtueMart 1.1.x
VirtueMart 1.0.x