Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Hour 16. Building an E-Commerce Solution

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to Install Ubercart

• Setting Up Product Classes and Catalogs

• Handling Money

• Selling Downloads

• Shipping Products and Keeping Track of Stock

• Offering Paid Memberships

Introduction

This hour completes the socializing and communicating section of this book. Commerce is impossible without socializing and communicating, and commerce (in its broadest sense) makes those aspects of life possible. In a relatively brief period of time, the world of e-commerce has come into being. Ubercart, a major contributed module to Drupal, has nearly 10,000 websites using it, and it is the topic of this hour.

Out of the box, Ubercart supports most of what ...