Magento

Modules / Chapter

Module 1: Introduction to Magento: features, key concepts and ecosystem

• Background and Features
• Magento and Technology
• Magento in figures
• About Magento Inc.., Editor Magento
• The Magento ecosystem and its relevance to developers

Module 2: Magento installation

• Tips for installation and demo database
• Installing an instance Magento
• Installation on development machine
• Installation on preproduction infrastructure and prod
• Industrialize the Magento installation
• Migrate an instance Magento
• Update an instance Magento
• Magento installation and migration

Module 3: Magento Connect, the marketplace for Magento

• Although use Magento Connect
• Magento Connect, V1.5 and V2
• The Downloader and Enterprise versions & Professional
• Establishment of the French translation

Module 4: Tools to help with developments in Magento

• Magento and Zend Studio
• Magento and Zend Application Server
• Other development tools and debugging
• Tools built into Magento
• Using Zend Studio
• Using Zend Application Server

Module 5: Template system and relations with the views module

• Magento folder structure
• Terminology
• Websites, Stores and Shops Views
• Interfaces
• Themes (layouts, templates, skins)
• (Blocks of structure, content blocks)
• Organizing templates
• Directories interfaces, themes and settings
• Hierarchy of themes and interfaces
• Composition layouts
• Relationship Management and layouts
• Tips for proper operation of the fallback
• Relations with the modules and the MVC architecture
• Operation of the template
• Interaction analysis and design modules

Module 6: Magento Module Development

• General structure
• Code organised in modules
• Configuration based MVC
• Controllers
• Context based URI Model Loading
• Models
• Layouts
• The Magento Config
• Setting up a magento config
• Creating magento config
• Magento Controller
• Magento Layout
• Magento Models
• Creating a model
• Basic Model Operations
• CRUD, The magento way
• Model Collections
• Magento Setup Resources
• Entity Attribute Value (EAV)

Module 7: Import and export of items under Magento

• Profile Configuration
• Prerequisites
• Dataflow products
• Exporting simple products
• Import simple products
• The special case of complex products
• Dataflow customers
• Export Accounts Receivable
• Import Accounts Receivable
• Dataflow attributes and categories?
• Import and export of items

Module 8: Webservice Magento