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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By : Fernando J Miguel
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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By: Fernando J Miguel

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market. This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects. This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution. With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

XAMPP PHP development environment


The XAMPP is a complete web development environment. On its install package, we can find Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. This is everything that you will want to develop your solutions!

At this time, you can imagine the meaning of XAMPP, but the X before the AMPP has the meaning of cross or cross-platform. So, we have XAMMP: (X) Cross-platform, Apache, Maria DB, PHP, and Perl.

The goal of XAMPP is to build an easy-to-install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache. XAMPP is a project of Apache Friends (Apache Friends is a non-profit project to promote the Apache web server).

Why we are working with this software? Let's find out:

  • Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/): This has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1995 providing secure, efficient, and extensible HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards

  • MariaDB (https://mariadb.org/): This strives to be the logical choice for database professionals looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server

  • PHP (http://php.net/): This is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development; and, most importantly, it is the main language of Magento

  • Perl (https://www.perl.org/): This is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 27 years of development

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