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Magento PHP Developer's Guide

By : Allan MacGregor
Book Image

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

XML module configuration


There are two main files involved in a module configuration: config.xml and system.xml. In addition to these module configurations, these are also stored in:

  • api.xml

  • adminhtml.xml

  • cache.xml

  • widget.xml

  • wsdl.xml

  • wsi.xml

  • convert.xml

In this chapter, we will focus only on the config.xml file. Let's create our base file and break down each of the nodes by following these steps:

  1. Start by creating the config.xml file under our module etc/directory.

  2. Now, copy the following code to the config.xml file (the file location is app/code/local/Mdg/Giftregistry/etc/config.xml):

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <config>
        <modules>
            <Mdg_Giftregistry>
                <version>0.1.0</version>
            </Mdg_Giftregistry>
        </modules>
        <global>
            <models>
                <mdg_giftregistry>
                    <class>Mdg_Giftregistry_Model</class>
                </mdg_giftregistry>
            </models...