Posted by user654 on October 26, 2011 at 3:34pm
Hi,
I would like to ask if and when Drupal Commerce will support semantic web standars such as ontologies,etc.
Is there any route of this?
Thanks
When Drupal Commerce will support semantic web standards?
Comments
Good Relations and schema.org
schema.org and Good Relations are all the ontologies you need to annotate ecommerce website (in fact these two ontologies are planning to merge soon). There has been several feature requests for the Drupal schema.org module to support entities which would enable Drupal commerce to work with schema.org and rich snippets. Once I've finished the simple use case for the schema.org module (event, recipes, person), I'll start on the Drupal commerce use case (products etc).
mixing ontologies
i read back when google said they were backing rich snippets. In the qoogle seo blog, one sentence at the end that said not to mix rfda and rich snippets or hcard. To use one or the other because it confused the bots. Not sure if thats still true.
You're talking about many
You're talking about many different things here. they never said that mixing ontologies was bad (it just means that they might ignore some of them). What they did say though was that mixing syntaxes would confuse their bot, but they later retracted this statement. Rich Snippet is not a syntax, it's a way of displaying search results to make them look more attractive (with an image and other important info), see a live example.
real quick
drupal 7 rfda out of the box comes with:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN""http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" version="XHTML+RDFa 1.0" dir="ltr"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
xmlns:sioc="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#"
xmlns:sioct="http://rdfs.org/sioc/types#"
xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#">
if You want more schema's just add them in the html.tpl.php file. To add ontologies to things like Your drupal commerce product and price. Instead of using Ryan's example http://demo.commerceguys.com/dc/ using a content type and taxonomy for Your product page use a view and within each view field add a suffix and prefix to the field. If You want to know what RFDa are suppose to look like use http://duncangrant.co.uk/radify/ great software. RFDa is not going anywhere it is creepy powerful it has the power to make the whole net one big data base...ed (oops You will still need to make a content type for Your product to add the fields:)
Drupal to drupal commerse step by step to example shop one item
Drupal to drupal commerse step by step to example shop one item how to would be awsome.
I can install drupal 7.9 and installed what I thought were all the commerse modules and paypal modules.
Now I want to add 1 item with color choices, male or female, and size options. Price per foot also.
Publish it so it is seen on the site and people could buy it using paypal.
This as a example step by step would allow people to get their webshops going.
Some of the best help
Commerce guys vimeo site http://vimeo.com/channels/commerceguys/ i also like http://nodeone.se/node/895 . Make sure You try http://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart this is a drupal distribution profile meaning You load it on Your server as new drupal install. With kickstart even if Your a drupal pro You will learn from how they set up the views, rules and products. Learning commerce is well worth the time because You will also learn much about drupal.
The drupal commerce kickstart
The drupal commerce kickstart is .1 versions behind. 7.9 is the core. Now i can see something like commerse getting behind the times quick.
Now if it is not documented how to get to that point from the core. I could be stuck if the commerse site goes down. It is for documenting something for everyone.
After installing Commerce
After installing Commerce Quickstart, you can go and update any module/core as you want, just as with your own sites. CK has no own dedicated code, so it just automates what you would do by hand normally. So, no problem here :-)
Product Reference - being
Product Reference - being selected in the structure -> content type -> Tea
now I enter something like this...
Tea field_tea Product reference Check boxes/radio buttons
check boxes / radio buttons acts like a radio button and select from a list alows one selection.
So do these content types contain more than one product?
because I would like lets say 5 catagories of teas and thowse are lists of 4-20 teas.
Please help.
Yeah, you can update Commerce
Yeah, you can update Commerce Kickstart like any other Drupal installation after you get it up and running. I was just waiting for Commerce 1.1 before rolling the new release of Kickstart, but look for it soon.