Magento 1.8 Development Cookbook - Couverture souple

Delvaux, Bart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782163328 ISBN 13 : 9781782163329

Editeur : Packt Pub Ltd, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Over 70 recipes to learn Magento development from scratch

About This Book

• Customize the look and feel of your Magento shop
• Work on theming, catalog configuration, module, and database development
• Create modules to modify or extend Magento's standard behaviour

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer with minor PHP knowledge and you want to start with Magento development, this book is for you. With its specially tailored recipes, we will guide you from simple development in Magento to the more advanced stuff. Even if you are an experienced Magento developer, some recipes in this book will interest you. The other recipes will serve as a good reference to look at.

What You Will Learn

• Install Magento on a custom webserver
• Add your own touch to a Magento store with a custom theme
• Speed up your store with some performance tools
• Customize and extend backend functionality with forms, grids, and more
• Build your own shipping module
• Manage the display of your products
• Understand database design patterns

In Detail

Magento is an open source e-commerce platform which has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. Its architecture makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins where a lot of them are shared by the community. This is the reason why the platform is liked by developers and retailers.

A practical developer guide packed with recipes that cover all the parts of Magento development. The recipes will start with the simple development exercises and get the more advanced as the book progresses. A good reference for every Magento developer!

This book starts with the basics. The first thing is to create a test environment. Next, the architecture, tools, files and other basics are described to make you ready for the real work.

The real work starts with the simple things like theming and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we will move on to more complex features such as module and database development. When you have survived this, we will move on to the last part of making a shop ready for launch: performance optimization and testing. This book will guide you through all the development phases of Magento, covering the most common pitfalls through its recipes.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Bart Delvaux

Bart Delvaux is an experienced web developer from Belgium. With a passion for web technologies, he started his career in 2010 after he received his bachelor's degree in Applied Informatics. Magento gave him the first opportunity to establish himself when he was working as a consultant for a leading PHP company in Belgium. When the Magento certifications were released, Bart was one of the first persons who received Magento Certified Developer and Magento Certified Developer Plus. With the principle of quality above quantity, Bart finished a lot of Magento projects going from a standard web shop to complex integrations and module development.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Packt Pub Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1782163328
• ISBN 13: 9781782163329
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 274