Magento PHP developer's guide get up and running with the highly customizable and powerful e-commerce solution, Magento

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacGregor, Allan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham, UK Packt Publishing 2015
Edition:Second edition
Series:Community experience distilled
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • FeaturesFurther 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
  • ""Cover ""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Magento Fundamentals for Developers ""; ""Zend Framework â€? 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""
  • 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
  • ""Summary""""Chapter 2: ORM and Data Collections ""; ""Magento Model anatomy""; ""It's magic â€? 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""
  • Back to the configurationThe 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