Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide will guide you through development with Magento, an open source e-commerce platform. Exploring commonly approached areas of Magento development, Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide provides you with all the information you'll need to get a very solid understanding of developing with Magento.
Chapter 1, Magento 3.1: PHP Developer's Guide shows you what this book will cover entirely in detail for you to read through.
Chapter 2, Installing/Upgrading Magento and Preparing for Development will prepare you for development with Magento as well as showing you how to install and upgrade Magento using a variety of different methods.
Chapter 3, Magento's Architecture introduces you to Magento's architecture, the Zend framework, and how the system works from a development point of view.
Chapter 4, Shipping Modules in Magento shows you how to put together shipping modules in Magento to handle shipping calculation and information.
Chapter 5, Building a Payment Module for Magento guides you in putting together payment methods in Magento and building connecting modules between Magento and the payment gateway of your choice.
Chapter 6, Building a Basic Featured Products Module walks you through building a featured product module into your web site so that you can show featured products in your Magento categories.
Chapter 7, Fully-Featured Module for Magento with Admin Panel shows you how to put together a fully featured module in Magento as well as giving it a full backend to manage data with. You'll also learn how to use the module creator to quickly deploy module skeletons to use yourself in the future.
Chapter 8, Integration of Third-Party CMS will show you how to integrate Wordpress with your Magento installation. It will also show you the other options available should you use any other content management systems.
Chapter 9, Magento's Core API guides you through the Magento Core API and how to utilize it with scripts of your own to interface with Magento's data.
Chapter 10, Importing and Exporting Data shows you how to work with import and export data profiles in Magento to work with basic order, product, and customer data.
Appendix, Resources for Further Learning, contains additional resources for further learning. Its not a part of this book and it can be downloaded from Packt's website http://www.packtpub.com/files/7429-Appendix-Resouces-for-Further-Learning.pdf.
You will need an installation of Magento, either on your local machine or on a remote server, your favorite code editor, and permissions to manipulate files.
If you are a PHP developer who wants to understand the architecture of Magento, learn how to extend the system with PHP code, add new features, and integrate Magento with a third-party CMS, this book is for you.
You are expected to be a confident PHP 5 developer. No experience of Magento development is expected, although you should be familiar with the operation of Magento. No experience of the Zend framework is expected.
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