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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 covered a lot of ground. We have learned how to extend the frontend of Magento and how to work with routes and controllers.

The Magento layout system allows us to modify and control blocks and display it on our store. We also started working with Magento Data models, and we learned how to use them, as well as how to handle and manipulate our data.

We have only touched the surface of the frontend development and of the Data models. In the next chapter, we will expand a little bit more on the topics of configuration, models, and data, and we will explore and create an admin section on the Magento backend.