BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.
Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your INTERNET store to the next level.
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.
Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your INTERNET store to the next level.
MAGENTO EXTENSION:
Mangento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not available with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for Magento like. Canonical URL for Magento, Fooman Google Analytics Plus, Blog, Post Affiliate Pro Connector etc. in this blog our focus is on Google Maps Store locator extension of Magento
USING GOOGLE MAPS STORE LOCATOR:
To include the map in your CMS page/block use this snipped:
{{block type="core/template" template="unirgy/storelocator/map.phtml"}}
Copy to your theme and design the following interface files:
layout/ustorelocator.xml
template/unirgy/storelocator/map.phtml
If you are importing locations directly to database, go to this URL to fetch coordinates:
http://your.store.com/ustorelocator/adminhtml_location/updateEmptyGeoLocations
{{block type="core/template" template="unirgy/storelocator/map.phtml"}}
Copy to your theme and design the following interface files:
layout/ustorelocator.xml
template/unirgy/storelocator/map.phtml
If you are importing locations directly to database, go to this URL to fetch coordinates:
http://your.store.com/ustorelocator/adminhtml_location/updateEmptyGeoLocations
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