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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>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento PHP Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Jay El-Kaake started his first tech entrepreneurship adventure at the age of 10 when he developed and launched his first website. Now, as a Co-founder and CEO of Sweet Tooth Inc, Jay oversees up to 1,000 Magento stores per year as Sweet Tooth's client base of over 3,000 Magento e-commerce clients grows.

Through his role at Sweet Tooth Inc., Jay was the lead in developing some of the most popular extensions of Magento: Sweet Tooth Rewards, a full-featured loyalty and rewards program extension; Better Store Search, a turn-key product search optimizer; Better Store CMS, a Magento CMS improver; and Enhanced Grid, the second most downloaded community-written extension for Magento with over 70,000 installations.

Jay's GitHub account can be found at https://github.com/jayelkaake.

You can also follow Jay on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jayelkaake.

Michael K. Kreitzer, born in Chatham, Ontario, and raised in the small town of Thamesville, began his journey in the IT industry at an early age from the moment he wrote his first Hello World program. He studied Computer Programming at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and is now a Magento Certified Plus Developer at Demac Media Inc. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario with his wife Megan and dog Padme.

Corey Slavnik is a Certified Magento Developer from Toronto, Ontario. He understood his affinity for programming at a young age when he built games in RPG Maker 2000. He attended McMaster University for his undergraduate degree and continued to learn (and love) Magento at Demac Media. Corey also enjoys craft beer and yoga.