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Your Aero storefront is your customer facing front-end. Storefronts are built using a component based structure. This greatly reduces both your development and maintenance effort. Using components allows you to make store-wide changes quickly and efficiently. ...

Your Theme holds the individual collection of components, visuals and styles that make up your storefront. Themes ensure consistency within your site. Allowing you to quickly and easily alter the look, without affecting the underlying logic. Themes give you th...

The following structural elements are used to create your Aero storefront: Pages - Layouts - Sections - Blocks

The Aero Image Factory allows you to scale images appropriately and therefore accelerate page load times. See "How do I use Image Factory?

Aero includes breadcrumb navigation as standard. Breadcrumbs allow users to easily track and access the pages they have visited within your storefront. See our section on breadcrumbs for more information.

To access the admin, open the project in your browser and navigate to /admin. Default login credentials Use the following login credentials to access the admin for the first time. You'll be prompted to update your details and set a more secure password. Email...

Whilst the layout of the storefront is dictated by the theme, the displayed content is managed through blocks. This includes navigation (such as header and footer menus), promotional imagery, static text and HTML snippets. Each block can contain multiple items...

Pages form the core of your Aero Storefront. Pages are the main structural element of your store. Aero Pages are dynamic, this allows a single page to display various content, depending on customer actions. This makes Aero pages easy to update and low maintena...

Edit once, change everywhere - Sections remove unnecessary code duplication and streamline developer activity. Sections are reusable chunks of markup and/or code that allow developers to componentise functionality. Sections allow developers to reduce duplicati...

By default, all of your pages reference your 'main' layout - this ensures the same scaffolding structure for each of your sections/pages The 'main' layout calls divides your page into the following screen areas: headercalls the 'header' section - breadcrumbcal...

As with standard HTML, to rearrange the contents within each area simply reorder the contents in the relevant section or twig file (content). It is also possible to rearrange the areas of your layout. To do this, reorder the contents of your 'main' layout.

Layouts standardise the look and feel of your Aero storefront. Layout location All layouts are held within your local Aero installation.You can find them here: resources>views>layouts

Aero includes the following standard ecommerce pages. These are automatically created when you create a new Aero store: Homepage- Your main landing page - Listings- Product listings based on searches or category selection - Product- Specific product details - ...

Storefront pages are built using the Twig template engine. Twig is a fast, secure and flexible PHP templating solution. Before developing with Aero, we recommend that you become acquainted with the core concepts of Twig. The official Twig documentation is a gr...

You can control if a collection of slugs is valid or not by setting your own validator: \Aero\Store\Routing\Slugs::setValidator(function ($slugs, $resolver) { if ($resolver !== 'listings') return true; if ($slugs->count() < 3 && $slugs->where('model_ty...