Magento PHP Developer's Guide - Second Edition电子书

Magento PHP Developer's Guide Second Edition

Table of Contents

Magento PHP Developer's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Magento Fundamentals for Developers

Zend Framework – the base of Magento

The Magento folder structure

Modular architecture

Autoloader

Code pools

Routing and request flow

The Magento version of MVC

Models

Views

Dissecting a layout file

Controllers

Websites and store scopes

Factory names and functions

Events and observers

Event dispatch

Observer bindings

Summary

2. ORM and Data Collections

Magento Model anatomy

It's magic – methods

The EAV model

What is EAV?

Retrieving the data

Working with Magento collections

Get product collections only from a specific category

Get new products added since X date

Get bestseller products

Filter the product collection by visibility

Filter products without images

Add multiple sort orders

Using Direct SQL

Reading

Writing

Summary

3. Frontend Development

Extending Magento

Scenario

Features

Further improvements

Hello Magento!

The XML module configuration

Models and saving data

Creating the models

Setup resources

Defining a setup resource

Creating the upgrade script

What we have learned

Setting up our routes

IndexController

SearchController

ViewController

Blocks and layouts

IndexController blocks and views

SearchController blocks and views

ViewController blocks and views

Adding products to the registry

Summary

4. Backend Development

Extending Adminhtml

Back to the configuration

The grid widget

Managing the registries

Permissions and ACL

Updating in bulk with mass actions

The form widget

Loading the data

Saving the data

Summary

5. The Magento API

The Core API

XML-RPC

SOAP

The RESTful API

Using the API

Setting up the API credentials for XML-RPC/SOAP

Setting up the REST API credentials

Loading and reading data

Updating data

Deleting a product

Extending the API

Extending the REST API

Securing the API

Summary

6. Testing and Quality Assurance

Testing Magento

Unit testing

Regression testing

Functional testing

Test-driven development

Tools and testing frameworks

Unit testing with PHPUnit

Installing Ecomdev_PHPUnit

Setting up the configuration for our extension

The anatomy of a test case

Creating a unit test

Functional testing with Mink

Magento Mink installation and setup

Creating our first test

Summary

7. Deployment and Distribution

The road toward zero-downtime deployment

Making it right from scratch

Ensure that what you see is what you get

Magento naming conventions

Ready means ready

Version control systems

Subversion

Git

Distribution

Packing our extension

Package Info

Release Info

Authors

Dependencies

Contents

Load Local Package

Publishing our extension

Summary

A. Hello Magento

The configuration

The controller

Testing the route

B. Understanding and Setting Up Our Development Environment

LAMP from scratch

Getting VirtualBox

Booting our virtual machine

Installing Apache2

Installing PHP

Installing MySQL

Putting everything together

Up and running with Vagrant

Installing Vagrant

Choosing an IDE

Working with a version control system

Summary

Index