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Magento Structure
Magento Structure

Magento Ecommerce is a powerful, flexible Open Source Ecommerce Solution. It runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP platform. From one installation, you can control multiple storefronts, all sharing customer and product information. Magento's templates and themes enable you to customize the look and feel of your store, even optimizing it for mobile phones. Extensions enable you to connect Magento to a large number of payment gateways and shipping services. Modular code enables you to upgrade your Magento installation while retaining your customizations.

Basically there are four Magento Structure

Magento File Structure

Magento Database Structure

Magento Folder Structure

Magento Directory Structure

Developing and implementing magento project requires understanding its directory structure. Here is a brief overview of Magento Folder Structure.

/ app is where the application resides

/ app / etc is global configuration den

/ app / code is where modules installed their models and controllers

/ app / code / core are core team developed or certified modules

/ app / code / community are community contributed modules

/ app / code / local are local customizations

/ app / code / core / Mage magento default namespace

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} module root

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / etc module configuration

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / controllers controllers provided by module

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / Block Block logic classes

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / Model Object Models provided by module/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / Model / Mysql4 Resource Models provided by module

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / sql sql installation and upgrade files between module versions

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / sql / {resource} / resource model specific upgrades

/ app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / sql / {resource} / {type}-{action}-{versions}.(sql|php) resource update files. example: mysql4-upgrade-0.6.23-0.6.25.sql

/ app / design is location of design packages (layouts, templates, translations)

/ app / design / frontend frontend design

/ app / design / adminhtml HTML admin panel design

/ app / design / {area} / {package} / {theme} theme customizations

/ app / design / {area} / {package} / {theme} / layout .xml files that define block structure for different cases in website flow

/ app / design / {area} / {package} / {theme} / template .phtml (html with php tags) templates

/ app / design / {area} / {package} / {theme} / locale Zend_Translate compatible translation files for package/theme

/ app / locale locale files

/ app / locale / {locale (en_US)} Zend_Translate compatible translation files for modules

/ skin / {area} / {package} / {theme} / is where design package css and images are

/ lib are libraries such as Zend and Varien

/ js are javascripts smile

/ media uploaded files (product images, pdf documents, etc)

/ tests Unit tests (not done yet)

/ var temporary files

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