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The shop to be used in Joomla! is aging a bit - but is still one of most powerful solutions you can found. And with a little hacking you can make it even more terrific!
Core HackIt's a know fact between VirtueMart insiders, that you can use Joomla plugins in the product descriptions. For that you need to enable this by clicking a checkbox in VirtueMart's main configuration (VirtueMart Admin > Configuration > Global tab > Enable content mambots/plugins in descriptions? checkbox.)
But what if you want to use plugins elsewhere, in other spots of the VirtueMart pages? For example in some other spot of the product details page - let's say to insert an availability calendar module under the main product image?
Right, you can do it with a little code hack! Let's make our hands dirty with some PHP then!
By default, in the VirtueMart 1.1.* Store Information settings you can add only one e-mail address in Contact Information box. All important mails - as new order notifications, for example, will be sent there. What if - for various reasons - you need to add more, than one e-mail address?
I am angry on Easter bunny. Really... He delivered to me a nasty surprise: lots of my customers complained during/after Easter weekend, that their shops, sometimes the Easter's week began to malfunction: the users using PayPal as payment gateway aren't charged correctly. After studying the problem, I found, that is happening on shops running versions of VirtueMart 1.1.3 to 1.1.9, charging shipping to customers and using the old PayPal API to communicate with the gateway. More precisely, the sipping net amount was not transferred, the shipping tax was sent correctly.
Then, by searching for "virtuemart shipping not transferred to paypal" I discovered, that I am not alone: there where some 54k+ search results returned!
What? A shopping cart with users which can't actually shop?
Weird or not, that was a recent request from one of my customers. He wanted to have a quick way to prevent some of hisusers from putting products in cart, but leave all other site functionality intact.
VirtueMart is great when you want to set up a store which works with multiple currencies. You can set up your own prices for each currencies in your shop, or you can use one of available currency converters. The core functionality supports the use of European Central Bank's live currency rates, but there are plugins supporting other rates too.
But you can run into trouble where you'd expect to not have any surprises: on PayPal checkout page.
A seemingly simple question caused serious headaches in past weeks. One of my clients who has an already seriously cross-hacked VirtueMart shop (SkinRich) asked me to make it possible, that a specific shopper group she had, the Distributors, namely, to be able to order products only in six-packs, making warehouse people's life much easier, and costs lower. The other users should have the default quantity options.
After thinking a lot about how to solve the problem, I came out with a 4 line simple hack, which works perfectly for me.
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- Add more, than one e-mail address to the Virtuemart store - and send mails to all of them
- Virtuemart PayPal old API problem - shipping not transferred to PayPal
- Create an user group for users who can not put products in cart
- Use plugins, show modules anywhere in a VirtueMart page
- VirtueMart's SMTP problems
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