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Magento PHP Developer????s Guide, 2nd Edition

By : MacGregor

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Magento PHP Developer????s Guide, 2nd Edition

2 (4)

By: MacGregor

Overview of this book

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Magento Fundamentals for Developers

1. Magento Fundamentals for Developers

Zend Framework – the base of Magento

The Magento folder structure

Modular architecture

Routing and request flow

The Magento version of MVC

Websites and store scopes

Factory names and functions

Events and observers

Summary

2. ORM and Data Collections

2. ORM and Data Collections

Magento Model anatomy

The EAV model

Working with Magento collections

Using Direct SQL

Summary

3. Frontend Development

3. Frontend Development

Extending Magento

Hello Magento!

The XML module configuration

Models and saving data

Setting up our routes

Blocks and layouts

Summary

4. Backend Development

4. Backend Development

Extending Adminhtml

The grid widget

The form widget

Summary

5. The Magento API

5. The Magento API

The Core API

Using the API

Extending the API

Securing the API

Summary

6. Testing and Quality Assurance

6. Testing and Quality Assurance

Testing Magento

Tools and testing frameworks

Creating our first test

Summary

7. Deployment and Distribution

7. Deployment and Distribution

The road toward zero-downtime deployment

Version control systems

Distribution

Publishing our extension

Summary

A. Hello Magento

A. Hello Magento

The configuration

The controller

Testing the route

B. Understanding and Setting Up Our Development Environment

B. 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

Index

Index

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Tools and testing frameworks

As mentioned previously, there are several frameworks and tools available to test PHP and Magento code:

Ecomdev_PHPUnit: This extension is just amazing. The developers at Ecomdev created an extension that integrates PHPUnit with Magento and also adds Magento-specific assertions to PHPUnit without having to modify core files or affect the database.
Magento_Mink: Mink is a PHP library for the Behat framework that allows you to write functional and acceptance tests; Mink also allows you to write tests that simulate user behavior and browser interaction.
Magento_TAF: This stands for Magento Test Automation Framework and is the official testing tool provided by Magento. It includes over 1,000 functional tests and is very powerful. Unfortunately, it has a major drawback; it has a large overhead and a steep learning curve.

Unit testing with PHPUnit

Before Ecomdev_PHPUnit, testing Magento with PHPUnit was problematic and really not very practical. Out of the different methods...

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