Magento PHP Developer's guide : get up and running with the highly customizable and powerful e-commerce solution, Magento / Allan MacGregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacGregor, Allan, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce--Computer programs.

Electronic commerce.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Get up and running with the highly customizable and powerful e-commerce solution, Magento

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

MacGregor Allan: Allan MacGregor is a Magento Certified Developer Plus with four years of Magento experience. He also has a certification in Linux System Administration by IBM. He started working with Magento as a freelance looking for a better framework to build e-commerce solutions, and he is now the Magento Lead Developer at Demac Media (www. demacmedia. com). He's very passionate about software development in general. He is constantly working with new technologies and frameworks. At Demac Media, he has participated in building core solutions for a wide range of clients; this has given him the experience and knowledge to solve many Magento challenges. As part of an internal project at Demac Media, he worked on Triplecheck. io (www. triplecheck. io), a unique service for monitoring and auditing the code health of a Magento store. You can also follow him on Twitter at http: //www. twitter. com/allanmacgregor.

Summary:

This book is written for PHP developers who are familiar with frameworks such as Zend or CakePHP and want to start developing and working with Magento. No prior knowledge of Magento is required.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Magento Fundamentals for Developers ""; ""Zend Framework � the base of Magento""; ""The Magento folder structure""; ""Modular architecture""; ""Autoloader""; ""Code pools""; ""Routing and request flow""; ""The Magento version of MVC ""; ""Models""; ""Views""; ""Dissecting a layout file""; ""Controllers""; ""Websites and store scopes""; ""Factory names and functions""; ""Events and observers""; ""Event dispatch""; ""Observer bindings""

""Summary""""Chapter 2: ORM and Data Collections ""; ""Magento Model anatomy""; ""It's magic � methods ""; ""The EAV model ""; ""What is EAV?""; ""Retrieving the data""; ""Working with Magento collections ""; ""Get product collections only from a specific category""; ""Get new products added since X date""; ""Get bestseller products""; ""Filter the product collection by visibility ""; ""Filter products without images ""; ""Add multiple sort orders""; ""Using Direct SQL""; ""Reading""; ""Writing""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 : Frontend Development""; ""Extending Magento""; ""Scenario""

""Features""""Further improvements""; ""Hello Magento!""; ""XML module configuration""; ""Models and saving data""; ""Creating the models""; ""Setup resources""; ""Defining a setup resource""; ""Creating the upgrade script""; ""What we have learned""; ""Setting up our routes""; ""IndexController ""; ""SearchController ""; ""ViewController ""; ""Blocks and layouts""; ""IndexController blocks and views""; ""SearchController blocks and views""; ""ViewController blocks and views""; ""Adding products to the registry""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Backend Development ""; ""Extending Adminhtml""

""Back to the configuration""""The grid widget""; ""Managing the registries""; ""Permissions and ACL""; ""Updating in bulk with mass actions""; ""The form widget""; ""Loading the data""; ""Saving the data""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: The Magento API ""; ""The Core API""; ""XML-RPC""; ""SOAP""; ""The RESTful API""; ""Using the API""; ""Setting up the API credentials for XML-RPC/SOAP""; ""Setting up the REST API credentials""; ""Loading and reading data""; ""Updating data""; ""Deleting a product""; ""Extending the API""; ""Extending the REST API ""; ""Securing the API""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 6: Testing and Quality Assurance """"Testing Magento""; ""Unit testing""; ""Regression testing""; ""Functional testing""; ""Test-driven development""; ""Tools and testing frameworks""; ""Unit testing with PHPUnit""; ""Installing Ecomdev_PHPUnit""; ""Setting up the configuration for our extension""; ""The anatomy of a test case""; ""Creating a unit test""; ""Functional testing with Mink""; ""Magento Mink installation and setup""; ""Creating our first test""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7: Deployment and Distribution ""; ""The road toward zero-downtime deployment""

""Making it right from scratch""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 12, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783554201

1783554207

OCLC:

916530479