Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook

✍ Scribed by Nurul Ferdous

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of straightforward recipes to build a faster and more impressive Magento store. The recipes will give you the optimum solutions for common and complex problems you face while developing a Magento store by writing effective custom modules and widgets. The recipes are explained in simple English and are easy to understand and implement in your projects. If you are a PHP developer or a software engineer, novice or experienced, interested in achieving high impact in a fast-paced development environment and want to boost your PHP/Magento development skills to the next level then this book is for you. No prior experience with Magento is required but basic knowledge of PHP is needed.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Credits......Page 4
About the Author......Page 5
About the Reviewer......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
Preparing the platform with a virtual host......Page 19
Setting up a Subversion/SVN......Page 22
Getting the latest copy of Magento with the SVN checkout......Page 24
Setting up MySQL tools......Page 26
Setting up a Magento project with NetBeans......Page 27
Working with Magento code......Page 31
Adding a home link to the menu bar......Page 34
Changing any page title in Magento......Page 37
Customizing a Magento error page......Page 39
confirmation page in Magento......Page 42
Adding a custom CMS layout template......Page 43
Adding an RSS feed (last five tweets!)......Page 47
Placing the trusty old contact form in CMS......Page 49
in Magento......Page 51
Integrating WordPress in Magento......Page 56
Creating a new page......Page 60
Adding jQuery support......Page 62
Adding Lightbox2 in Magento......Page 66
Adding an accepted payment banner at the footer......Page 72
Creating a custom "Twitter handle" field in a registration form......Page 76
Deleting orders in Magento......Page 81
Using Google Website Optimizer......Page 84
Creating a custom variable and using its own e-mail templates......Page 87
Using Google analytics for Magento......Page 89
Price Rules......Page 90
Creating a featured product and showing it in the home page
......Page 92
Creating a custom admin theme......Page 95
Setting up the Catalog defaults......Page 98
product page......Page 101
Setting up Table Rates shipping......Page 102
Querystring......Page 105
Creating a configurable product......Page 108
Embedding a YouTube video in product details
......Page 112
Introduction......Page 116
(without mcrypt)......Page 117
Optimizing Magento store for search engines
......Page 121
Pro and Express Checkout into Magento......Page 125
Preventing a CSRF attack in Magento......Page 128
Introduction......Page 132
Resources and database connections......Page 133
Magento database replication using Master Slave setup
......Page 135
Using the Magento’s Singleton method......Page 140
Repairing the Magento database......Page 141
Working with Magento’s EAV design......Page 143
Introduction......Page 146
Module Creator......Page 147
Creating the required directories......Page 149
Activating a module......Page 150
Creating a controller for the module......Page 151
the module......Page 160
Creating models for the module......Page 164
Setting up SQL for the News module......Page 167
Designing a template for the News module......Page 168
Adding required blocks for the News module......Page 170
Initializing module configuration......Page 182
Writing an adapter model......Page 191
Adding a module in backend......Page 192
Adding a module in frontend......Page 194
Introduction......Page 196
enabler file......Page 197
the widgets......Page 199
Writing the default module helper Data.php......Page 201
multi select in widget configuration......Page 202
Creating frontend block for our widget......Page 203
Creating templates......Page 207
Introduction......Page 210
Speed, GTmetrix, and WebPagetest......Page 211
MySQL configuration......Page 219
Optimizing Apache web server configuration......Page 221
Tuning Magento configurations......Page 224
cache backend......Page 226
Accelerating PHP: php.ini configuration......Page 231
Applying YSlow and Page Speed rules......Page 232
Installing and configuring Xdebug......Page 242
Using FirePHP with Zend Wildfire plugin......Page 250
CLI binaries......Page 253
Writing your first Magento test case......Page 255
Index......Page 260