Magento Best Practices Handbook
Magento Best Practices Handbook
A collection of practical advice to develop with Magento the right way. Free since Magento 1 EOL.
About the Book
When you get used to develop on Magento 1 platform you will likely agree with a motto of mines: "there are at least two ways of developing things in Magento the best of which is usually the third".
This book is a collection of development advices resulting from over five years spent on practical Magento development.
Knowing how Magento is implemented is the best way to extract the most out of it; for this reason all the recipes are explained through in-depth analysis of Magento's code base and architecture.
This book assumes you are not a Magento beginner and already know its programming fundamentals with at least one year of continuous development experience.
If you prefer, you can buy a printed version here:
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
- 1.1 Why and How to read this book
- 1.2 Conventions
- 1.3 Feedback
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2. Getting started
- 2.1 Terminology
- 2.2 Requirements
- 2.3 Tools
- 2.4 Technical References
- 2.5 Summary
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3. Magento Runtime
- 3.1 A bare minimum PHP script
- 3.2 The more structured Mage Shell script
- 3.3 The normal dispatch flow
- 3.4 Summary
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4. Logging
- 4.1 Basic principles
- 4.2 Avoid using Mage::log()
- 4.3 The native Log Adapter
- 4.4 The brand new Logger Model
- 4.5 A definitive approach
- 4.6 Custom Writer Models
- 4.7 Summary
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5. Autoloading
- 5.1 Magento’s autoloader initialization
- 5.2 How to extend native autoloader
- 5.3 Summary
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6. Effective MVC
- 6.1 Models
- 6.2 Blocks
- 6.3 Templates
- 6.4 Controllers
- 6.5 What about Helpers
- 6.6 Closing words
- 6.7 Summary
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7. Working with Data
- 7.1 Connecting to the DB
- 7.2 Accessing Data
- 7.3 Cloning a Collection
- 7.4 Writing Data
- 7.5 Summary
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8. Extending Magento
- 8.1 Developer mode
- 8.2 Monkey Patches
- 8.3 Rewrites
- 8.4 Events
- 8.5 Interceptors
- 8.6 Summary
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9. Deploying
- 9.1 Bash script
- 9.2 Complex scenarios
- 9.3 Fabric
- 9.4 Capistrano
- 9.5 Deployer
- 9.6 Summary
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