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From Ubercart to Drupal Commerce

Day: 
Wednesday
Time: 
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 
306 Trellon

Presented by

Ryan Szrama (rszrama)
Commerce Guys
Configuration, Set-up & AdministrationConfiguration, Set-up & Administration
Code-free success: Manage Drupal through the User Interface.

Drupal Commerce is breaking new ground in Drupal based e-commerce development. In essence, Drupal Commerce is a rewrite of Ubercart's core systems by the former project lead and other major Drupal contributors based on our experience developing and building sites with Ubercart. Drupal Commerce leverages the greatest new features Drupal 7 has to offer to create a core set of e-commerce modules that are at the same time more solid internally and more flexible for the end user.

This session will introduce the basics of Drupal Commerce, including product creation and display, the shopping cart and flexible checkout workflow, and back-end order administration. For those already familiar with Ubercart, this session will demonstrate the evolution of features from Ubercart to Drupal Commerce and explain the upgrade / migration solutions in place.

Developers and site builders should take note of the following key goals of the Drupal Commerce project:

  • Hard separation of the APIs from the UI.
  • Core system development segregated from plugin module development and "packaging" concerns.
  • Utilization of Drupal 7's core entity and fields systems for product and orders.
  • More structured product entry and more flexible add to cart form display.
  • Customizable checkout flow with tighter forms API integration.
  • Stronger "lateral" integration with / dependence on other key contributed modules.
  • Strictly enforced code and documentation standards.
  • Improved internationalization with better address support and no more custom string override settings forms.
  • ...

If you'd like to know more or lend a hand to the coding effort, check out the project homepage, stop by in #drupalcommerce on irc.freenode.net, or consider joining the contributors at a code sprint or DrupalCamp near you. You can also follow @drupalcommerce on Twitter.

We're pressing hard to meet the deadline for DrupalCon SF 2010 and will also keep this page updated as the conference draws nearer.

Experience: Intermediate, Advanced
Industry: marketing
Tags: Drupal 7, Drupal Commerce, ubercart

Voted!

I will not be covering Ubercart in any detail, but for who want to see a mobile web shop using Drupal and Ubercart in actions, have a look at my session:

http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/building-mobile-web-shop-us...

More importantly, have you picked good Ethiopian in SF?

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lol - Good question. I might need a local to direct me to the hook up. : D

Cafe Ethiopia in the Mission District. Easy BART train -> walk. One of my fave restaurants here

http://tinyurl.com/cafe-ethiopia

Just received a copy of the Ubercart book to give away in the session... now to figure out how to pick someone to give it to. : P

It's from Packt w/ a preview chapter online here:

http://www.drupalubercartbook.com