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About This Book
Get up and running with Magento 2 to create custom solutions, themes, and extensions effectively
About This Book
- Create unique solutions for Magento 2 by developing and implementing solutions, themes, and extensions
- Be proficient in the main functionalities, resources, and system structure of Magento 2
- Get to grips with this practical and hands-on guide to raise your web development skills to the next level
Who This Book Is For
If you are a PHP developer who wants to improve your skills in e-commerce development by creating themes and extensions for Magento 2, then this book is for you.
What You Will Learn
- Install and set up the Magento Ecosystem
- Choose the best options for Magento's Sell System features
- Work with Search Engine Optimization in Magento
- Create and customize themes for Magento
- Develop extensions for new Magento functionalities
- Package extensions to publish in the Magento Connect network
- Create Magento solutions for mobile devices
- Carry out performance adjustments to speed up your Magento system
In Detail
Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market.
This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects.
This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution.
With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
Style and approach
This book would be a fast-paced tutorial guide that uses hands-on examples to developing new solutions for Magento e-commerce system. Each topic is explained sequentially in the process of creating a Magento solution, along with detailed explanations of the basic and advanced features of Magento 2.
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Magento 2 Development Essentials
Table of Contents
Magento 2 Development Essentials
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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
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Errata
Piracy
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1. Magento Fundamentals
XAMPP PHP development environment
XAMPP installation
XAMPP for Windows installation
XAMPP for Linux installation
XAMPP for OS X installation
Magento
Magento installation
Magento MVC architecture
Summary
2. Magento 2.0 Features
The revolution of Magento 2.0
An introduction to the Magento order management system
Sales operations
A simplified checkout process
Orders
Payments
Promotions
Magento 2.0 command-line configuration
The command-line utility
Summary
3. Working with Search Engine Optimization
Magento SEO management
Store configuration
SEO and searching
SEO catalog configuration
XML sitemap manager
Google Analytics tracking code
Optimizing Magento pages
CMS pages
Product pages
Category pages
Summary
4. Magento 2.0 Theme Development – the Developers' Holy Grail
The basic concepts of Magento themes
Magento 2.0 theme structure
The Magento Luma theme
Magento theme inheritance
CMS blocks and pages
Custom variables
Creating a basic Magento 2.0 theme
Creating and declaring a theme
Simple product image configuration
Creating static files' directories
Creating a theme logo
Applying the theme
Summary
5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme
The CompStore theme
Composer – the PHP dependency manager
Installing Composer on Unix-like operating systems
Installing Composer on Windows
Building the CompStore theme
CSS preprocessing with LESS
Applying new CSS to the CompStore theme
Creating the CompStore logo
Applying the theme
Creating CompStore content
Customizing Magento 2.0 templates
Summary
6. Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go
Magento development overview
Using the Zend framework
Magento 2.0 extension structure
Developing your first Magento extension
The Twitter REST API
The TweetsAbout module structure
Using TwitterOAuth to authenticate our extension
Developing the module
Controllers
Blocks
Observer
Views
CSS
Deploying the module
Magento Connect
Packaging and publishing your module
Summary
7. Go Mobile with Magento 2.0!
Testing the website on different devices
The Google Chrome DevTools device mode
Changing the device preset
Network connectivity
Inspecting media queries
Viewing CSS
Adding custom devices
Responsive Web Designer tester
Adjusting the CompStore theme for mobile devices
The Magento 2.0 responsive design
The Magento UI
Implementing a new CSS mixin media query
Adjusting tweets about extensions for mobile devices
Summary
8. Speeding up Your Magento 2.0
Magento Entity-Attribute-Value
Indexing and caching Magento
Indexing and re-indexing data
The Magento cron job
Caching
Fine-tuning the Magento hosting server
Selecting the right Magento hosting service
Apache web server deflation
Enabling the expires header
PHP memory configuration
Optimizing the MySQL server
Minifying scripts
CDN for Magento
Summary
9. Improving Your Magento Skills
Magento Connect extensions
Installing a Magento extension
Debugging styles with the Grunt task runner
Magento knowledge center
Improving your Magento skills
Summary
Index
Magento 2 Development Essentials
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