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| ====== Setting up your Checkout Template ====== | ====== Setting up your Checkout Template ====== |
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| Setting up a customized checkout template in FoxyCart is about as easy as it can get, thanks to [[docs:automagicache|AutoMagiCache]]. But it's also radically different than you're probably expecting. Here's a quick guide to setting up your template to seamlessly integrate FoxyCart into your existing site design. | Setting up a customized checkout template in FoxyCart is about as easy as it can get, thanks to [[..:docs:automagicache|AutoMagiCache]]. But it's also radically different than you're probably expecting. Here's a quick guide to setting up your template to seamlessly integrate FoxyCart into your existing site design. |
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| The idea here is that you're going to create a page on your site with "placeholders" where the FoxyCart functionality will go. You should know enough HTML and CSS to be comfortable editing code in order to make this happen, though if you're still learning and are using a WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver the basic ideas still apply. Once this page is created and uploaded/published on your site, you'll enter that URL into your FoxyCart admin, and FoxyCart will grab your code, work some magic (seriously), you'll be good to go. | The idea here is that you're going to create a page on your site with "placeholders" where the FoxyCart functionality will go. You should know enough HTML and CSS to be comfortable editing code in order to make this happen, though if you're still learning and are using a WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver the basic ideas still apply. Once this page is created and uploaded/published on your site, you'll enter that URL into your FoxyCart admin, and FoxyCart will grab your code, work some magic (seriously), you'll be good to go. |
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| === AutoMagiCache: Automagic Template Caching === | === AutoMagiCache: Automagic Template Caching === |
| [[docs:automagicache|AutoMagiCache]] is robust, but there are situations where it will break. Please review the limitations before you continue. If you find a bug, please [[http://www.foxycart.com/bug-report-because-bugs-happen.html|report it]]. | [[..:docs:automagicache|AutoMagiCache]] is robust, but there are situations where it will break. Please review the limitations before you continue. If you find a bug, please [[http://www.foxycart.com/bug-report-because-bugs-happen.html|report it]]. |
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| ===== Doing it Manually ===== | ===== Doing it Manually ===== |
| * It might make sense not to cache your template while you develop, as it's a much slower process. Rather, just ignore the security warnings during development, but make sure you re-enable them once you're cached and ready for final testing. | * It might make sense not to cache your template while you develop, as it's a much slower process. Rather, just ignore the security warnings during development, but make sure you re-enable them once you're cached and ready for final testing. |
| - Once everything is as it should be, recache your template and test again. | - Once everything is as it should be, recache your template and test again. |
| - Have some friends test, just to be on the safe side. | - Have some friends test, just to be on the safe side. * Unordered List Item |
