VirtueMart

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VirtueMart
File:Virtuemart-logo-slogan-250px.png
Original author(s) Max Milbers
Developer(s) Max Milbers and Team
Initial release 1997
Stable release 3.0.14 Stable (J3.x) / 11 March 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-11)[1]
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Webshop
License GNU General Public License
Website 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.

History

VirtueMart began as offshoot 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.

In September 2009 a new team began developing VirtueMart 2. The new version was released in December 2011. In October 2012 the developer team declared the end of life for VirtueMart 1.1 and that VirtueMart 2 is not any longer maintaining joomla 1.5 compatibility.

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] The cart is also integrated with Rapid 3.0, which enables transaction data to be sent directly from the customer's browser to the payment gateway without passing through the merchant's systems.[6]

Virtuemart is supported by an iPhone app by iVMStore.[7]

Usage

VirtueMart has been adopted by over 269,000 online retailers.[8]

For the week of Sep 23rd 2013, Quantcast data collated by BuiltWith Trends indicated that VirtueMart ran on 1.47% of the top 10K sites, 3.25% of the top 100K sites, and 6.02% of the top million sites.[9]

Requirements

As VirtueMart is only a plugin for Joomla! / Mambo, it has the same system requirements.

Several other required supporting libraries or extensions include MySQL, XML and Zlib support built into PHP. Support for HTTPS (OpenSSL) and cURL is recommended.[10]

Compatibility

  • VirtueMart 1.1.x is compatible with Joomla 1.5.x.
  • VirtueMart 2.0.x is compatible with Joomla 2.5.x.
  • VirtueMart 2.6.x is compatible with Joomla 2.5.x.
  • VirtueMart 2.9.x is compatible with Joomla 3.x.
  • VirtueMart 3.0.x is compatible with Joomla 2.5.x and Joomla 3.x.

Further reading

VirtueMart 1.x.x
  • Michelle M. Griffin, Website Design Guide to Joomla! 1.5, Virtuemart & Extensions, CorporationGURU (2008), ISBN 978-0982153710
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  • Joseph Kwan, Joomla! VirtueMart 1.1 Theme and Template Design, PACKT PUBLISHING (2011), ISBN 978-1849514545
  • Götz Nemeth: VirtueMart Der Joomla!-Shop (German), Franzis Verlag (2010), ISBN 978-3645600781
  • Martin Blasczyk: Das offizielle VirtueMart-Buch: Online-Shops aufbauen und betreiben mit Joomla! (German), Addison-Wesley (2009), ISBN 978-3827327727
  • Valérie Isaksen, Thierry Tardif, Joomla et VirtueMart: Réussir sa boutique en ligne (French), Eyrolles (2008/2009), ISBN 978-2212124873
  • Jean-Noël Anderruthy: Joomla ! 1.5: Créez un site web et une boutique en ligne avec VirtueMart, 2 volumes (French), Editions ENI (2010), ISBN 978-2746055308
  • Roberto Chimenti: Crea il tuo e-commerce con Joomla! & Virtuemart (Italian), Hoepli (2010), ISBN 978-8820345488
  • G.J. Fierloos: MyStudy Virtuemart (Dutch), Duuren Media, Van (2008), ISBN 978-9059403536
VirtueMart 2.x.x
  • Kerry W. Watson: Showme Guides Virtuemart 2 User Manual, CreateSpace (2012), ISBN 978-1475144635
  • Nemeth Götz: VirtueMart 2 (German), Franzis Verlag (2012), ISBN 978-3645601740
  • Martin Blasczyk: Das offizielle VirtueMart-Buch: Online-Shops aufbauen und betreiben mit Joomla! (German), Addison-Wesley (Sep. 2012) ISBN 978-3-8273-2949-3
  • Sasa Paporovic: VirtueMart 2.x - Der Grundkurs[Video-Tutorial](German), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2014) ASIN B00IRLHS5Y
  • Valérie Isaksen, Thierry Tardif: Réussir sa boutique en ligne - Joomla! 2.5 et VirtueMart 2 (French), Eyrolles (Sep. 2012), ISBN 978-2-212-12804-8

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/files
  2. ↑ 1.2. Differences to phpShop - Virtuemart
  3. ↑ 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."
  4. ↑ VirtueMart Features
  5. ↑ VirtueMart Themes
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ iPhone app for Virtuemart
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Virtuemart Requirements

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