Magento 2 cookbook : over 50 practical recipes that will help you realize the full potention of Magento in order to build a professional online store / Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff ; [foreword by Guido Jansen, Magento Community Manager].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogman, Ray, author.

Kerkhoff, Vladimir, author.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems.

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magento (Web site development tool).

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Magento two cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Over 50 practical recipes that will help you realize the full potential of Magento in order to build a professional online store About This Book Take advantage of the latest features in Magento 2 to set up an e-commerce store that fits your business needs Packed with several advanced recipes, not just to manage your online store, but to extend and design it as well Written in a cookbook style, you can pick and choose your recipe to carry out your day- to- day Magento store tasks Who This Book Is For The book is for existing Magento users who want to gain further expertise and insights into managing, designing, and extending their online store in Magento to fit their business needs. Working knowledge of Magento and basic familiarity with programming is expected. What You Will Learn Set up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Transfer your Magento 1 database to Magento 2 using the Magento 2 system tools. Boost the performance of Magento 2 by enabling different types of caching. Build a Magento 2 multi-store by creating a root catalog, subdirectories, and products. Create and manage pages, blocks, and front-end apps. Manage your Magento store by setting up the correct TAX rules. Design custom themes within the Magento 2 framework. Create basic and advanced extensions using Magento 2. In Detail Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to's then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you'll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements. Style and approach Step by step guide for real world tasks for Magento users to gain...

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX; Introduction; Installing Apache; Installing NGINX; Installing PHP-FPM; Installing HHVM; Installing MySQL; Installing Magento 2; Installing Magento 2 on Hypernode; Managing Magento 2 on Docker; Chapter 2: Magento 2 System Tools; Introduction; Installing Magento 2 sample data via GUI; Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line; Managing Magento 2 indexes via the command line

Managing Magento 2 cache via the command lineManaging Magento 2 backup via the command line; Managing Magento 2 set mode (MAGE_MODE); Transferring your Magento 1 database to Magento 2; Chapter 3: Enabling Performance in Magento 2; Introduction; Configuring Redis for backend cache; Configuring Memcached for session caching; Configuring Varnish as the Full Page Cache; Configuring Magento 2 with CloudFlare; Configuring optimized images in Magento 2; Configuring Magento 2 with HTTP/2; Configuring Magento 2 performance testing; Chapter 4: Creating Catalogs and Categories; Introduction

Create a Root CatalogCreate subcategories; Manage attribute sets; Create products; Manage products in a catalog grid; Chapter 5: Managing Your Store; Introduction; Creating shipping and tax rules; Managing customer groups; Configuring inventories; Configuring currency rates; Managing advanced pricing; Chapter 6: Creating a Magento 2 Theme; Introduction; Creating a new theme; Changing a layout XML of a Magento 2 module; Adding CSS/JS to pages; Using Grunt for CSS changes; Adding static blocks to pages through layout XML; Adding static blocks to pages through widgets

Using a dynamic serving theme based on the client browserCreating theme-specific translations; Chapter 7: Creating Magento 2 Extensions - the Basics; Introduction; Initializing extension basics; Working with database models; Creating tables using setup scripts; Creating a web route and controller to display data; Creating system configuration fields; Creating a backend data grid; Creating a backend form to add/edit data; Chapter 8: Creating Magento 2 Extensions - Advanced; Introduction; Using dependency injection to pass classes to your own class

Modifying functions with the use of plugins - InterceptionCreating your own XML module configuration file; Creating your own product type; Working with service layers/contracts; Creating a Magento CLI command option; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 4, 2016).

ISBN:

9781785883408

1785883402

OCLC:

946596202