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Qbit firmly believes in using open source technologies to build its websites. These technologies are widely supported by a great and dedicated open source community. Both have thousands of free plug in that allow you to do amazing things without having to shell out money at every turn.
Read on to find out about and VirtueMart to find out how they will provide you with a great online solution for your business.
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is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. had been downloaded 23 million times. Between March 2007 and February 2011 there had been more than 21 million downloads. There are over 7,400 free and commercial extensions available from the official Extension Directory and more available from other sources.
VirtueMart began as off shoot of the stand-alone phpShop 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 the developer re-branded mambo-phpShop as VirtueMart, officially supporting the newer 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. Since September 2009 a new team is developing Virtuemart 2. The estimated release time for a stable version is June 2011.
is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns[citation needed], stores data in a MySQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
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.
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.
Virtuemart is supported by an iPhone app by iVMStore.