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Magento PHP Developer's Guide

By : Allan MacGregor
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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>

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Magento PHP Developer's Guide
Allan MacGregor
Apr, 2013 | 256 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento PHP Developer's Guide
Magento PHP Developer's Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Understanding and Setting Up Our Development Environment
Understanding and Setting Up Our Development Environment
LAMP from scratch
Up and running with Vagrant
Choosing an IDE
Working with a version control system
Summary
2
Magento Fundamentals for Developers
Magento Fundamentals for Developers
Zend Framework – the base of Magento
Magento folder structure
Modular architecture
Routing and request flow
Magento version of MVC
Websites and store scopes
Factory names and functions
Events and observers
Summary
3
ORM and Data Collections
ORM and Data Collections
Magento Model Anatomy
EAV Model
Working with Magento collections
Using Direct SQL
Summary
4
Frontend Development
Frontend Development
Extending Magento
Hello Magento
XML module configuration
Models and saving data
Setting up our routes
Block and layouts
Summary
5
Backend Development
Backend Development
Extending the Adminhtml
The grid widget
The form widget
Summary
6
The Magento API
The Magento API
The Core API
Using the API
Extending the API
Securing the API
Summary
7
Testing and Quality Assurance
Testing and Quality Assurance
Testing Magento
Tools and testing frameworks
Creating our first test
Summary
8
Deployment and Distribution
Deployment and Distribution
The road towards zero-downtime deployment
Version control system and deployment
Distribution
Publishing our extension
Summary
Hello Magento
Hello Magento
The configuration
The controller
Testing the route
Index
Index

Creating our first test

Mink tests are also stored inside the Test folder. Let's create the base skeleton of our Mink test class:

  1. Navigate to the Test folder on our module root.

  2. Create a new directory called Mink.

  3. Inside the Mink directory, create a new PHP class called Registry.php.

  4. Copy the following code (the file location is app/code/local/Mdg/Giftregistry/Test/Mink/Registry.php):

    <?php
class Mdg_Giftregistry_Test_Mink_Registry extends JR_Mink_Test_Mink 
{   
    public function testAddProductToRegistry()
    {
        $this->section('TEST ADD PRODUCT TO REGISTRY');
        $this->setCurrentStore('default');
        $this->setDriver('goutte');
        $this->context();
 
        // Go to homepage
        $this->output($this->bold('Go To the Homepage'));
        $url = Mage::getStoreConfig('web/unsecure/base_url');
        $this->visit($url);
        $category = $this->find('css', '#nav .nav-1-1 a');
        if (!$category) {
            return false;
        }...
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