subject: Basics To Know To Be A Magento Developer [print this page] In the present competitive world and e commerce advancements on its way, it has become mandatory for businesses looking for online success to acquire such software that could aid in following aspects:
1. Website traffic
2. Search engine friendly e store
3. Know areas from which traffic is coming
4. Sales reports, details and statistics from admin panel
5. Improve webshop structure
6. Increases earning
7. Enhance their web presence
As a most effective web solution for e commerce, Magento has given a hand for all the above functions. Offering a real purchasing experience with user friendly interface and convenient front line support it looks like online shopping cart. Customers can go for setting up for an account, making an order, preferences for delivery or shipping, review of products through product catalogues in quite convenient manner.
With wide array of extensions and upgrades the software gives you vast choice to have an add-on to your online store or add a specific feature to attract your customers. You can find many bridging solutions with it even in presence of other CRM or e commerce system. Customization is the best part of it.
Magento is made up of modules. These are the containers for frontend to backend functions. The core six containers of it are:
1: Data models
2: Database schemes
3: Action controllers
4: Rendering object
5: Settings
6: Utility helper
A module can be specifically of one or more of the above. The extensions are downloadable through Magento connect. Each module has an MVC architecture composed of three parts viz. Model, block or view and controller. Database connections are managed by model to pass the information through controller which further maps and reorders the information and pass it to Block. Here you can view the viewable things. etc consists of all the configuration files for each module.sql contain the code needed for installation of modules.
Important steps required before installing Magento are:
1: Preparing your database and installing magneto sample data. The sample is not to be used on existing data bases.
2: Install the software on your local host.
3: Get to know the software through web info and Magento user guide.
4: Tests run it by making some shopping to check the way its working.
5: To save your code from the beginning install x Debug and Php unit.
It can be quite hard to learn development on Magento for beginners. Its better to take a short online course and go through all video clips shown to understand the developing better.
