LemonStand Wiki

Developer's Guide

• Creating Pages - explains how to create pages, and how to build an eCommerce website
  • Creating Pages Basics - learn the basics about page anatomy in LemonStand
    • Creating your first page - explains how to create a page
    • Adding a template - explains what templates are and how to use them
    • Creating a partial - explains partials and how to use them to reuse code in your pages.
  • Creating editable blocks - explains how to create editable content blocks on a page
  • Managing Resources - explains how to manage a website's CSS, image and JavaScript files.
  • Security - explains how to protect your website pages and force HTTPS protocol for specific pages.
  • Programming Pages - explains how to program your pages and the simple programming model behind LemonStand pages.
    • Actions - learn how to use actions and how to make LemonStand work for you.
    • AJAX - learn how to update page content without reloading the whole page.
  • Handling errors - explains how to handle form validation errors on pages.
  • Page Not Found (404) page - explains how to create a 404 error (Page Not Found) page.
  • Creating site maps, dynamic menus and breadcrumbs - explains methods of creating dynamic website navigation.
• Building your online store - explains how to build pages for your shop to display categories or product groups content, how to build a cart and checkout page and so on.
  • Displaying a list of categories - explains how to output a list of product categories.
  • Category Page - learn how to create a page to output a category name, description and contents.
  • Displaying a list of products - explains how to output a list of category products, custom group products or related products.
  • Product page - explains how to create a product page and display its attributes, options, related products and images
    • Displaying a list of grouped products - explains how to display a drop-down menu for selecting a grouped product.
    • Displaying a list of product attributes - explains how to display a table with product attributes.
    • Displaying product options - explains how to create page controls for selecting product options.
    • Displaying product extra options - explains how to create checkboxes for selecting extra options.
    • Displaying related products - explains how to display a list of related products.
    • Displaying product manufacturer information - explains how to output product manufacture name, description, logo and other details.
  • Cart page - learn how to create a cart page and allow customers to manage the cart content.
    • Implementing the Shipping Cost Estimator Feature - explains how to add the Estimate Shipping Cost feature to the cart page
  • Checkout Pages - explains how to implement the checkout process.
    • AJAX-driven single-page checkout - explains how to implement a single-page AJAX-driven checkout process.
      • Creating the Billing Information partial - explains how to create a partial for gathering customer billing information.
      • Creating the Shipping Information partial - explains how to create a partial for gathering customer shipping information.
      • Creating the Shipping Method partial - explains how to create a partial for selecting a shipping method.
      • Creating the Payment Method partial - explains how to create a partial for a selected payment option.
      • Creating the Order Review partial - explains how to create a partial for reviewing an order content.
    • Allowing customers to enter order notes - explains how to create a text field for entering customer order notes during the checkout process.
    • Implementing the Step-By-Step Checkout - explains how to implement a checkout process with one page per one checkout step.
    • Custom checkout scenario - the One-Step Checkout - explains how to create a one-step checkout, where the customer do not need to enter the most part of the usual checkout information.
  • Pay page - explains how to create a Pay page to accept credit cards or redirect to an external payment page.
    • Creating the Bank Transfer and other similar payment methods - explains how to create payment methods which should display some textual information instead of a payment form.
  • Payment Receipt page - explains how to create an order payment receipt page.
    • Payment receipt for inclusive tax environments - explains how to modify the order receipt page to work in inclusive tax environments.
  • Customer orders page - learn how to output a list of customer orders and their statuses.
  • Order details page - learn how to display details about a specific order.
    • Order details page for inclusive tax environments - explains how to modify the order details page to work in inclusive tax environments.
  • Customer login and logout - explains how to organize customer login and logout process.
  • Customer registration page - explains how to create a customer registration page.
  • Password restore page - explains how to create a page where customers can restore forgotten passwords.
  • Change Password page - learn how to create a page where your customers can change a password.
  • Creating the Search page - explains how to create the product search page.
  • Creating the new products RSS channel - explains how to add the RSS channel representing a list of recently added products.
  • Implementing the Compare Products feature - explains how to add the Add to Compare links to your products and how to create a Compare Products page.
  • Manufacturer List page - explains how to build a page displaying all manufacturers created in your store.
  • Manufacturer Details page - explains how to build a page displaying all manufacturers details and a list of manufacturer's products.
• API (function, action and class reference) - learn about PHP Classes which work behind the scenes on LemonStand-driven websites
• Using third party software with LemonStand - explains how to install a third-party software, like a forum, on a same domain with LemonStand.
• Troubleshooting during the development and learning process - describes the detailed error information page and how to disable it.
• Customizing Invoices and Packing Slips - explains how you can create invoices and packing slips consistent with your company identity.

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