Create an e-commerce website using Joomla and Phoca Cart

How to create an e-commerce website using Joomla and Phoca Cart. Text version here: We will focus not so much on installing Joomla itself and not so much on managing Phoca Cart in administration, but mainly on building the whole e-commerce website, including various modules, etc. Will start our tutorial after we have successfully installed Joomla. If you don’t know how to install Joomla, see this link: If we have Joomla installed correctly, we can get started. We will start with the administration. And before we get into the installation of the main component - Phoca Cart - e-commerce solution for Joomla, we will show you some small extensions that will help us simplify our work in the administration. 0:00 Create an e-commerce website using Joomla and Phoca Cart Before we get into the installation of the main component - Phoca Cart - e-commerce solution for Joomla, we will show you some small extensions that will help us simplify our work in the administration. 0:34 Phoca Top Menu module If you’ve worked with Joomla before, you’ll know in versions before Joomla 4 there was a top menu. This top menu is very beneficial when working on the desktop, allowing you to access different parts of the system faster. 1:27 Phoca Desktop System plugin This plugin will create a shortcut area directly on the main administration page. After installing this plugin and publishing it, we need to define shortcuts to different parts of the system. 2:57 Phoca Filter Options System plugin A very important part of the system is search and filtering. If an extension has many parameters, then it is difficult to find your way through all of them. Phoca Cart, like any e-commerce extension, contains many parameters and therefore it is beneficial to be able to filter these parameters easily. 3:56 Phoca Commander - dual panel file manager for Joomla. 5:06 Phoca Cart which includes the main component, basic payment and shipping plugins. First, we will install the basic Phoca Cart package, which includes the main component, basic payment and shipping plugins. Then we install the demo data and finally the package of ten core modules. 5:45 Phoca Cart demo data 6:41 Menu link to Phoca Cart Each part of the system needs a menu link to take users to that part. And it’s no different with e-commerce extensions. Even our shop needs its own menu link. That’s why we go to Joomla menu manager and create one menu link there. It is recommended to always create one link so that the SEF links are uniform. 7:13 Phoca Cart main modules package 7:58 Phoca Cart main modules setting: - Phoca Cart Search module - Phoca Cart Cart module - Phoca Cart Wish List module - Phoca Cart Compare module - Phoca Cart Currency module 9:18 Phoca Cart Toys Cassiopeia Child Template 10:58 Moving Phoca Cart main modules to top postion - displaying icons (links) to module contents instead of displaying the module content itself. 12:43 Phoca Cart Particles Module - Image and content type in top position 14:53 Phoca Cart Product module We’re going to use this module four times directly at the bottom of our page. We’ll create four different instances of this module and display the following statistical information: - Best seller products - Featured products - Latest products - Most viewed products. 17:36 Phoca Particles module - Image and Feature Box type in bottom position 21:17 Phoca Cart Brands module Phoca Cart Brands module will show us a slideshow of different brands of products from our shop. 22:23 Phoca Particles module - Feature Box type in bottom position 24:11 Phoca Email Newsletter module - in footer position 26:12 Phoca Open Graph System plugin Plugin that is significant with respect to SEO. Phoca Open Graph System plugin adds open graph information to the website. The open graph data that is displayed as meta tags then allows you to display information from that web page, for example, on social networks. If we link to our page on social networks, this link is displayed together with the page title, an image and a short description. 27:45 Phoca Cart Checkout - Installing Phoca Cart Packeta shipping plugin - example of shipping method where user can select pick-up point. - Installing Phoca PDF component and Phoca PDF Phoca Cart plugin - this component and plugin will allow us to display the QR code. In addition to the QR code, this component and plugin will take care of creating PDF documents such as invoices or even printing product catalogues. In this video we have shown some tips and basic features of Phoca Cart. Phoca Cart, like Joomla, contains a large number of extensions and therefore the possibilities when creating an e-commerce site are essentially unlimited. If you are interested in learning more, please visit