Magento 2 Development Essentials

Fernando J. Miguel

• Editorial: Packt Publishing
• Año: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785289897
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Computer Science
• Categoría: Programming in PHP

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.

Magento 2 Development Essentials

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Table of Contents

Magento 2 Development Essentials

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

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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Credits

Author

Fernando J. Miguel

Reviewers

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