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Chapter 6. About the Project
6.1. The Project
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution for Joomla! and Mambo.
VirtueMart is released under the GNU Public License. It is free to download and use.
There's a small group of developers who help in making this Shopping Cart Script more professional
and easily usable. The author of this documentation is the Lead Developer...and having not much time
besides Wife, Work & Studies.
and easily usable. The author of this documentation is the Lead Developer...and having not much time
besides Wife, Work & Studies.
History: VirtueMart is the successor of mambo-phpShop. mambo-phpShop was the first port of
phpShop to Mambo. phpShop was developed by Edikon Corp. [http://www.edikon.com] and the
phpShop community - http://www.phpshop.org.
phpShop to Mambo. phpShop was developed by Edikon Corp. [http://www.edikon.com] and the
phpShop community - http://www.phpshop.org.
6.2. Documentation
This documentation was written using XMLMind XML Editor [http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor]
using the DocBook [http://www.docbook.org] XML Format.
using the DocBook [http://www.docbook.org] XML Format.
DocBook defines a set of markup elements useful for marking up text so that the text can then be
transformed into several different formats. It's possible to create documents in different formats: PDF,
HTML, HTML Help (.chm Files for Windows Help), XML, RTF, TeX, WordML (Word 2003) and
others. The author of this document uses eDE [http://docbook.e-novative.de/] for generating the End-
User documents. The idea is to write just once and reach the largest possible number of people with
the information. Digital information not stored properly tends to get lost. Due to the fact that not
containing uncommon characters (such as binary formats) it's possible to index and search directly on
the documents written on SGML and consequently on DocBook. The SGML systems use markups
to make their description. DocBook holds over 300 markup elements each one with several attributes
which can assume several values, these can be fixed or defined by the document / style that the author
has used.
transformed into several different formats. It's possible to create documents in different formats: PDF,
HTML, HTML Help (.chm Files for Windows Help), XML, RTF, TeX, WordML (Word 2003) and
others. The author of this document uses eDE [http://docbook.e-novative.de/] for generating the End-
User documents. The idea is to write just once and reach the largest possible number of people with
the information. Digital information not stored properly tends to get lost. Due to the fact that not
containing uncommon characters (such as binary formats) it's possible to index and search directly on
the documents written on SGML and consequently on DocBook. The SGML systems use markups
to make their description. DocBook holds over 300 markup elements each one with several attributes
which can assume several values, these can be fixed or defined by the document / style that the author
has used.
6.3. Homepage, Forum, Developer Resources
The project homepage is http://virtuemart.net.
The Forum can be found at http://forum.virtuemart.net. You are invited to join Discussions at our
Developer Board!
Developer Board!
The Central Developer Platform for VirtueMart and Open Source Projects related to VirtueMart can
be found at https://dev.virtuemart.net. That's the place where VirtueMart can be downloaded. And you
can create your own Project there! We offer free Project Hosting for your VirtueMart-related Open
Source Project.
be found at https://dev.virtuemart.net. That's the place where VirtueMart can be downloaded. And you
can create your own Project there! We offer free Project Hosting for your VirtueMart-related Open
Source Project.