Magento 2 Developer's Guide


Book Description

Harness the power of Magento 2 – The most recent version of the world's favourite e-Commerce platform for your online store About This Book Set up, configure, and power up your Magento environment from development to production Master the use of Web API to communicate with the Magento system and create custom services Create custom modules from scratch to extend the core functionality of the Magento system Who This Book Is For This book is intended primarily for intermediate to professional-level PHP developers who are interested in Magento development. For backend developers, several topics are covered that will enable you to modify and extend your Magento 2 store. Frontend developers will also find some coverage on how to customize the look of the site in the frontend. What You Will Learn Set up the development and production environment of Magento 2 Understand the new major concepts and conventions used in Magento 2 Build a miniature yet fully-functional module from scratch to manage your e-commerce platform efficiently Write models and collections to manage and search your entity data Dive into backend development such as creating events, observers, cron jobs, logging, profiling, and messaging features Get to the core of frontend development such as blocks, templates, layouts, and the themes of Magento 2 Use token, session, and Oauth token-based authentication via various flavors of API calls, as well as creating your own APIs Get to grips with testing Magento modules and custom themes, which forms an integral part of development In Detail Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform. The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. This book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you'll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business. Style and approach This book is a mix of theoretical and step-by-step approaches, explained in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. Topics are explained sequentially, giving detailed explanations of the basic and advanced features to get you working on Magento 2.




Magento 2 Explained


Book Description

Completely up-to-date for 2018, Magento 2 Explained is a high-quality and fun introduction for beginning Magento users. Learn Magento step-by-step from top trainer and best selling author Stephen Burge. Key Features Up-to-Date: Magento 2 Explained is always up-to-date. Clear instruction: You will follow plain English, clear visuals and enjoyable step-by-step instructions. Hands-on learning: Burge helps you master Magento 2 by taking you step-by-step in building a complete Magento site. Book Description Magento 2 is amazingly powerful ecommerce software. But many newcomers find it confusing, and most Magento 2 books are just too complicated to help. If you want to spend less time struggling with complex instructions, and more time building sites that make you proud, this is the book for you! Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners - and thousands more who've experimented with Content Management Systems and Magento but haven't mastered the software yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Magento users up the learning curve - from confusion to results! Burge and the OSTraining team make learning fun. Like their online training, you learn by following enjoyable, step-by-step instructions. OSTraining books are written in plain English and are supported by plenty of online documentation and videos. Magento 2 Explained requires absolutely no experience with Magento, content management, website construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Please note: This book is 100% aimed at Magento beginners. What You'll Learn You'll master Magento 2 hands-on, through a complete case study, crystal-clear visuals, simple explanations, and on-target analogies, all extensively tested with real Magento beginners. Burge walks you through installing Magento 2, planning sites that are easy to use and manage, adding content, and incorporating powerful site features without programming. Finally, Burge shows you how to run your site securely and efficiently, no matter how big or popular it becomes! About the Author Stephen Burge has split his career between teaching and web development. He now runs OSTraining.com, which specializes in teaching website development. OSTraining.com's clients include Apple, Pfizer, and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Education, and Commerce. Burge's books are some of the world's best-selling guides to the software they cover. His books include: Joomla Explained (Addison - Wesley, 2011) Drupal 7 Explained (Addison - Wesley, 2013) Joomla 3 Explained (Addison - Wesley, 2014) MySQL Explained (OSTraining, 2015) Drupal 7 Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Drupal 8 Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Joomla 3 Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Multilingual Joomla Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Magento Explained (OSTraining, 2017) WordPress Explained (OSTraining, 2017) WooCommerce Explained (OSTraining, 2017)




Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide


Book Description

Create an interactive online store and customize it further using Magento Key FeaturesA straightforward guide to developing with MagentoExamples of different types of extensionCustomize the Magento storefront and admin areasBook Description Magento is an open-source, enterprise-level e-commerce platform with unlimited scope for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for vendors but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more ?exible and profitable Magento stores. You start with a structural overview of the key Magento development components. You will learn where things such as plugins, events, models, controllers, layouts, and UI components ft into the development landscape. You will go through examples of using these components to extend Magento. As you progress, you will be building a diverse series of small but practical Magento modules. By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid foundation in the Magento development architecture; but you will also have practical experience in developing modules to customize and extend Magento stores. What you will learnDevelop a simple shipping moduleBuild admin interfaces with the built-in form and listing UI componentsImplement JavaScript components for improved customer experienceAccommodate vendor needs by adding new catalog-related featuresDevelop your way to a better checkoutImprove customer interaction with new customer-related extensionsCreate new web APIs to make your modules more extensibleWho this book is for This book is for competent PHP developers, with only basic knowledge of the Magento platform required.




Learning Magento 2 Administration


Book Description

Maximize the power of Magento 2 to improve your e-commerce business About This Book Strategic planning for maximizing your Magento 2 store's operations and sales. Important guidelines and advice for optimizing your Magento 2 store. Packed with screenshots and step-by-step instructions to leverage the hundreds of Magento 2 features. Who This Book Is For This guide is for store owners who use Magento 2 on a daily basis to operate their online stores. Proprietors will use this guide as a reference for ensuring that they are utilizing the full power of Magento 2. Developers and solution providers will find this guide a helpful tool in identifying opportunities to help their clients navigate the complexity of Magento 2. What You Will Learn Strategies for creating multiple stores within a single Magento installation. Use of complex product types such as bundles, downloadables and virtual products. Configuring payments, shipping and taxes. Accommodating multiple languages and currencies. Installing and configuring themes. Managing content and search engine optimization. Creating promotions, up-sells and cross-sells. Leveraging the customer relationship features of Magento 2. Securing and optimizing your installation. In Detail Magento 2 has been completely re-written and re-designed to take the world's most popular open source e-commerce platform to new heights of productivity and usability. With this overhaul comes improved opportunities to leverage the world's most successful open source e-commerce platform for your online retail and wholesale business. The focus of this book is on operational aspects: those actions you, as a proprietor, can take to give your customers a more delightful shopping experience. In this guide, we delve into all aspects of managing a Magento 2 store, from product creation to marketing, customer management to search engine optimization. This book is not only a step-by-step course in setting up your Magento 2 website, it will be a handy reference as continue to improve and refine your online presence. Style and approach A step-by-step guide where it takes the reader from the planning step all the way through launching a new Magento-powered store by building on the initial sample data included in a default Magento 2 installation. Along the way, we explore using discrete action steps how to leverage the full power of Magento 2 for both simple and advanced uses. Screenshots and step-by-step instructions not only teach the new Magento store administrator, but also serve as a handy reference for the more experienced operators.




Mastering Magento 2


Book Description

Maximize the power of Magento 2 to create productive online stores About This Book Updated for Magento 2, this book offers a comprehensive coverage of all the new features of Magento to build modern online stores Exploit little-known techniques to extend, tune, and manage your Magento installation Detailed coverage to make your store run faster, better, and more productively Who This Book Is For This book is for web designers, developers, or e-commerce store-owners who design or manage Magento stores for their clients and want to gain an in-depth understanding of the various features of Magento 2. What You Will Learn Discover what makes Magento 2 different — and even more powerful Develop strategies to create multi-store environments Find out how to create themes and extend the functionality of Magento 2 Create sound development practices to insure code integrity and security Know the why, as well as the how, behind using Magento 2 In Detail The long-awaited release of the world's most popular online solution, Magento 2, is now out with an all new interface and several enhancements. This book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. From planning your Magento installation through to advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store. Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. You'll learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions, and more. Style and Approach This book will be a straightforward guide that will dive deep into both aspects of developing and administering beautiful and secure stores. Get a firm idea of the different tools that the latest version has to offer to ensure the best customer experience.




Magento for Developers: Product Configuration and “Composite Products” Functionality


Book Description

This book includes detailed description of product configuration management in Magento; new features implemented within the "Composite Products" story; full developer's guide to internal design implementation; checklists for module and theme developers.




Magento 2 Theme Design


Book Description

Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business About This Book Realize the full potential of theme design in Magento 2 Design attractive themes for your e-commerce store to make them stand out amongst the crowd Practical skills and examples ensure you can take what you've learnt to your own projects – limited only by your own creativity! Who This Book Is For This book is for web designers and developers with existing knowledge of CSS, HTML, and XML who wish to create themes for Magento 2. Existing Magento 1.x theme designers who now want to develop themes for Magento 2 will also find this book useful. What You Will Learn Implement a local development Magento environment Understand the workings of the Magento theme structure Edit an existing Magento theme to satisfy your business needs Create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme Generate specific blocks to improve the Magento 2.0 theme Explore specific Magento programming Methods to improve the Magento 2.0 theme Customize the Magento 2.0 admin panel to create a new Magento 2.0 admin theme Build a Twitter module for Magento 2.0 and integrate Magento 2.0 with social bookmarking In Detail Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Using Magento's powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done. This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website. We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override. Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide to customizing the look and feel of your online store by creating stunning and responsive themes from scratch. In addition to creating new themes, the book will also offer guidance on customizing existing themes.




Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores


Book Description

Create rich and compelling solutions for Magento 2 by developing and implementing solutions, themes, and extensions About This Book 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 Packed with several advanced recipes, not just to manage your online store, but to extend and design it as well Who This Book Is For The ideal target audience for this course could be anyone who wants to mould their skills in building amazing e-commerce websites using Magento. We begin right from getting you started with Magento to becoming an expert at building your own online stores with it. What You Will Learn Install and set up the Magento Ecosystem Carry out performance adjustments to speed up your Magento system Transfer your Magento 1 database to Magento 2 using the Magento 2 system tools Build a Magento 2 multi-store by creating a root catalog, subdirectories, and products Design custom themes within the Magento 2 framework Create extensions using Magento 2 Discover what makes Magento 2 different and more powerful In Detail Magento is the leading e-commerce software trusted by world`s leading organizations. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. Our Magento Course will help you gain knowledge and skills that are required to design & develop world class online stores. Magento 2 Development Essentials - This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will learn Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. Magento 2 Cookbook – This book is divided into several recipes, which show you which steps to take to complete a specific action. It will cover configuring your categories and products, performance tuning, creating a theme, developing a module etc. At the end of this book, you will gain the knowledge to start building a success website. Mastering Magento 2 - This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. This book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store which teaches advanced and successful techniques. Focusing on Magento's Community version, this book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products Magento 2 Development Essentials by Fernando J. Miguel Magento 2 Cookbook by Ray Bogman and Vladimir Kerkhoff Mastering Magento 2 by Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds Style and approach This course begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving on to setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will master Search Engine Optimization aspects, create designs and customize theme layouts, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. The book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance.




Magento 2 DIY


Book Description

Learn how Magento 2, the newest version of the eCommerce platform, works. Aimed at entrepreneurs, marketers, and other experts interested in eCommerce, this book is accessible for anyone who wants to learn how to use Magento with no previous experience. Magento continues to be a top choice for eCommerce solutions in small and large businesses. Magento 2 DIY shows you how to set up and configure Magento for your own project. You will learn how to use extensions, templates and enterprise features. Various techniques are taught in an easy-to-understand way with real-world examples. Get started with Magento 2 using this book. What You Will Learn Set up, configure, use templates, designs and extensions Use the SEO and SMO features of Magento 2 Optimize security and performance Integrate with PIM, ERP, CRM, and other enterprise systems Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants to learn the basics of all aspects of Magento 2. You do not need any previous experience with Magento.




Magento 2 Development Cookbook


Book Description

Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2 About This Book Solve common problems encountered while extending your Magento 2 store to fit your business needs Delve into the exciting and enhanced features of Magento 2 such as customizing security permissions, intelligent filtered search options, easy third-party integration, among others Learn to build and maintain a Magento 2 shop via a visual-based page editor and customize the look and feel using Magento 2's offerings on the go Who This Book Is For This book is for every developer who has knowledge of PHP and wants to extend or customize the functionality of their Magento 2 system. If you have prior experience of the Magento platform, you will find this book useful in exploring the advanced features. What You Will Learn Install a Magento 2 shop with sample data Upgrade the data in a Magento 1 shop to a Magento 2 shop Manage the look and feel of the shop with custom themes Extend the shop with custom functionality such as forms, grids, and more Accelerate your store with some performance tools Build and structure your own shipping module Test your shop with automated tests and manage your product display In Detail With the challenges of growing an online business, Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform with innumerable functionalities that gives you the freedom to make on-the-fly decisions. It allows you to customize multiple levels of security permissions and enhance the look and feel of your website, and thus gives you a personalized experience in promoting your business. Style and approach This book is packed with a wide range of techniques to modify and extend the functionality of your online store. It contains easy-to-understand recipes starting with the basics and moving on to cover advanced topics. Many recipes work with code examples that can be downloaded from the book's website.