What are Avactis Tags?

To understand Avactis tags you should know that each product in Avactis Shopping Cart has a number of properties called product attributes. For instance, the following attributes are used to describe the bouquet shown below: Name, Price, and Description.

When you create an ecommerce storefront, for each product you add to the catalog you enter its attributes. Products can be added to the catalog in the Admin Area of Avactis Shopping Cart (this is explained in detail in Admin Area documentation).

Avactis Shopping Cart is designed to easily integrate an online store into an existing website, no matter how complex the site might be. Using the special tags mechanism you are able to organize previously entered information on the online storefront just the way you want.

Avactis tags are php functions which display product attributes and even entire blocks of an online storefront.

For example, you can display the product name for product with ID=7 by including the tag <?php ProductName(7); ?> on any website page; the name "Lavender Essence" will then appear on the page (No programming skills are necessary!).

If you include the tag <?php NavigationBar(); ?> , the Navigation Bar block will be displayed on the page (Navigation Bar is an online storefront component that lets you navigate between the categories of a catalog).

Using this method for displaying product attributes and online storefront components (also called store blocks) you can easily customize the appearance of your storefront to any design. Product descriptions and attributes (text, images, etc) can be rendered in any font, color or size and can be placed anywhere on the site.

Ecommerce storefront components can be placed in any location and in any arrangement you like. In addition, you can use templates (located in a special folder) to change the design of any internet storefront component.

Please Note!
 
The first line of any php page where Avactis tags are present must contain the following call to the shopping cart software initializer specifying the absolute software installation path:
 
<?php include('init.php'); ?>
 
For more details about initialization calls, please see "Storefront Creation and Integration."