VirtueMart Template System
Users Guide
Introduction
This, as the title suggests, is a users guide to VirtueMartʼs template system. It is not a guide to writing html,
php or css or for Joomla templates. Hopefully, it will show which templates each shop page uses and the
relationship between template files. This should make it easier for you to locate and edit the files required
to make your shop, look the way that you want it.
Some people may be dismayed that the files are not just plain html with a few extra tags added! But, using
a few php commands and following a few simple rules, quite complex shop pages can be made. With
some items only being displayed when they are required.
Themes
Each theme is stored in itʼs own subdirectory within VirtueMart. This means you can work on a new theme
and just switch for testing. Which means that you will always have a good theme to to back to.
Themes are stored in your-site/components/com_virtuemart/themes/ (your-site is the root of your-sites
directory structure. For the majority of hosting companies, the sites are stored in public_html. So to access
the themes on your site called MyShop will be public_html/MyShop/components/com_virtuemart/
themes/...... etc).
For all these examples and explanations I shall be using the default template your-site/components/com_virtuemart/
themes/default.
The basic structure of each theme is as follows, I wonʼt go into detail about these files:
All images used by VM
All the individual templates
Stored values for theme config1
css file for the theme2
Javascript for theme3
php for use in theme4
(temp file for testing)
xml file for theme config5
1. In the admin section certain defaults for the theme can be set. These values are stored in this file.
2. This stores all the css for the frontend of the store.
3. All javascript used by the theme are stored here. This can be extended with new functions for use by the theme.
4. Any php functions that the theme requires.
5. This displays the configuration settings in the admin section for the theme.
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