Magento PHP Developer's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Magento PHP Developer's Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- 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 -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. 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 -- 2. Magento Fundamentals for Developers -- Zend Framework - the base of Magento -- Magento folder structure -- Modular architecture -- Autoloader -- Code pools -- Routing and request flow -- 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 -- 3. ORM and Data Collections -- Magento Model Anatomy -- It's magic - methods -- EAV Model -- What is EAV? -- Retrieving the data -- Working with Magento collections -- Get product collection only from a specific category -- Get new products added since X date -- Get Bestseller products -- Filter product collection by visibility -- Filter products without images -- Add multiple sort orders -- Using Direct SQL -- Reading -- Writing -- Summary -- 4. Frontend Development -- Extending Magento -- Scenario -- Features -- Further improvements -- Hello Magento -- XML module configuration -- Models and saving data.

Creating the models -- Setup resources -- Defining a setup resource -- Creating the Installer Script -- What have we learned? -- Setting up our routes -- The index controller -- The search controller -- The view controller -- Block and layouts -- IndexController blocks and views -- SearchController blocks and views -- ViewController block and views -- Adding products to the registry -- Summary -- 5. Backend Development -- Extending the Adminhtml -- Back to the configuration -- The grid widget -- Managing the registries -- Permissions and the ACL -- Updating in bulk with Massactions -- The form widget -- Loading the data -- Saving the data -- Summary -- 6. The Magento API -- The Core API -- XML-RPC -- SOAP -- 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 -- 7. Testing and Quality Assurance -- Testing Magento -- Unit testing -- Regression testing -- Functional tests -- TDD -- Tools and testing frameworks -- Unit testing with PHPUnit -- Installing Ecomdev_PHPUnit -- Setting up the configuration for our extension -- Anatomy of a Test case -- Creating a unit test -- Functional tests with Mink -- Magento Mink installation and setup -- Creating our first test -- Summary -- 8. Deployment and Distribution -- The road towards zero-downtime deployment -- Make it right from scratch -- Be sure that what you see is what you get -- Ready means ready -- Version control system and deployment -- SVN -- 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.

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