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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to modify and extend the Magento backend to our specific needs.

Whereas, the frontend extends the functionality that the customers and users can use; extending the backend allows us to control this custom functionality and how customers interact with it.

Grids and forms are important parts of the Magento backend, and by using them properly, we can add a lot of functionality without having to write a lot of code or reinvent the wheel.

Finally, we learned how to use the permissions and Magento ACL to control and restrict the permissions of our custom extension after extension, as well as Magento in general.

In the next chapter, we will dive deep into the Magento API, and we will learn how to extend it to manipulate our registry data using several methods such as SOAP, XML-RPC, and REST.