VirtueMart

Last updated
Original author(s) Sören Eberhardt-Biermann
Developer(s) Max Milbers and Team
Initial release1997
Stable release
3.8.7 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 27 November 2020;2 years ago (27 November 2020)
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 application 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 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.

Originally developed by Sören Eberhardt-Biermann, 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 end of life for VirtueMart 1.1 and since then VirtueMart 2 is no longer maintaining Joomla 1.5 compatibility.

Features

VirtueMart supports an unlimited number of products and categories, with products assignable to multiple categories. Until version 3, it permitted the sale of downloadable products. [4] That functionality is now mostly supported by separate, subscription plugins. It 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. [5]

Because VirtueMart is an open-source e-commerce solution[ buzzword ] 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 quickly to change themes for category, product, checkout and cart pages. [6] 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. [7]

Virtuemart is supported by an iPhone app by iVMStore. [8]

Usage

VirtueMart has been adopted by over 269,000 online retailers. [9]

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. [10]

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. [11]

Compatibility

Further reading

VirtueMart 1.x.x
VirtueMart 2.x.x

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  2. ↑ 1.2. Differences to phpShop - Virtuemart
  3. ↑ Phpshop <> Virtuemart [ permanent dead link ] - 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. ↑ "VM3 and Digital Sales".
  5. ↑ VirtueMart Features
  6. ↑ VirtueMart Themes
  7. ↑ "eWAY Payment Plugin announcement". VirtueMart. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  8. ↑ iPhone app for Virtuemart
  9. ↑ "BuiltWith Trends - VirtueMart" . Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "BuiltWith Trends - Ecommerce Usage Statistics Pie Chart View" . Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  11. ↑ Virtuemart Requirements
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