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Magento PHP Developer's Guide

By : Allan MacGregor
Book Image

Magento PHP Developer's Guide

By: Allan MacGregor

Overview of this book

<p>Magento has completely reshaped the face of e-commerce since its launch in 2008. Its revolutionary focus on object oriented and EAV design patterns has allowed it to become the preferred tool for developers and retailers alike.</p> <p>"Magento PHP Developer’s Guide" is a complete reference to Magento, allowing developers to understand its fundamental concepts, and get them developing and testing Magento code.</p> <p>The book starts by building the reader’s knowledge of Magento, providing them with the information, techniques, and tools that they require to start their first Magento development.</p> <p>After building this knowledge, the book will then look at more advanced topics: how to test your code, how to extend the frontend and backend, and deploying and distributing custom modules.</p> <p>"Magento PHP Developer’s Guide" will help you navigate your way around your first Magento developments, helping you to avoid all of the most common headaches new developers face when first getting started.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento PHP Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned about:

  • Magento Models, their inheritance, and purpose

  • How Magento uses resource and collection models

  • The EAV model and its importance within Magento

  • How the EAV works and the structure that is used inside the database

  • What the Magento ORM model is and how it is implemented

  • How to work with Direct SQL and the Magento resource adapter

The chapters so far have been more theoretic than practical; this has been done with the intention of guiding you through the complexity of Magento and providing you with the tools and knowledge that you will require for the rest of the book. For the rest of the book, we will take a more hands-on approach and start building extensions incrementally, applying all the concepts we have learned so far.

In the next chapter, we will start getting our feet wet and develop our first Magento extension.