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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Get up and running with Magento 2 to create custom solutions, themes, and extensions effectively
About This Book
- Create unique solutions for Magento 2 by developing and implementing solutions, themes, and extensions
- 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
Who This Book Is For
If you are a PHP developer who wants to improve your skills in e-commerce development by creating themes and extensions for Magento 2, then this book is for you.
What You Will Learn
- Install and set up the Magento Ecosystem
- Choose the best options for Magento's Sell System features
- Work with Search Engine Optimization in Magento
- Create and customize themes for Magento
- Develop extensions for new Magento functionalities
- Package extensions to publish in the Magento Connect network
- Create Magento solutions for mobile devices
- Carry out performance adjustments to speed up your Magento system
In Detail
Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market.
This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects.
This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution.
With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
Style and approach
This book would be a fast-paced tutorial guide that uses hands-on examples to developing new solutions for Magento e-commerce system. Each topic is explained sequentially in the process of creating a Magento solution, along with detailed explanations of the basic and advanced features of Magento 2.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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Magento 2 Development Essentials
Magento 2 Development Essentials
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First published: February 2016
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Credits
Author
Fernando J. Miguel
Reviewers
Michel Arteta
Miguel I. Balparda
Clive Walkden
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About the Author
Fernando J. Miguel is a certified professional scrum master at the Scrum Alliance, with experience in analysis and web application development since 2003. He has been working in project development using design patterns, MVC, object-oriented programming, and Agile. He also has experience with content management systems (CMS), WordPress, Joomla, Magento 2, PHP, Java, Node.js, Android, SQL, NoSQL, and cloud computing.
Fernando has a bachelor's degree in information systems from Centro Universitário Módulo, Brazil. He specializes in project management / PMI-PMBOK from Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil. He also specializes in health informatics from Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, and he is currently pursuing a master's degree in electronic engineering and computer informatics from Instituto de Tecnologia e Aeronáutica (ITA), one of the best technology institutes in Brazil.
I'd like to thank my great professors, masters, and references Adilson Marques da Cunha, Flávio Marques Azevedo, and Renato Vercesi Mader for the valuable teachings and professional experience contribution, which enabled the building of this project.
About the Reviewers
Michel Arteta is a Magento-certified frontend developer, currently working as a frontend developer at Dow Jones (Innovation Department, Web and Mobile Development), New York. With more than 5 years of experience in web development, Michel has a strong background in modern web application development. He currently lives in New York and can be contacted on Twitter at @michelarteta.
Previously, he has worked for Faro Group, Founder (Magento Development) and Nano Web Group (Magento Development) in New York.
I would love to thank to my father, mother, and the woman I love, for her unconditional love and support.
Miguel I. Balparda is a Magento developer, speaker, Linux aficionado, and full-time traveler.
Clive Walkden is a PHP developer with a passion for learning, constantly looking at open source frameworks to improve his knowledge of coding. His favorite frameworks currently are Magento and Laravel.
Clive has over 15 years of programming experience. For the last 5 years, he has been the lead developer at SOZO Design, an agency in Cheltenham, UK, that focuses on PHP/SQL websites of all sizes from brochures to international e-commerce websites.
I'd like to thank the author for taking the time to write a book on how to get started building a website using Magento. It's not an easy task, and this book accomplishes this very well. Packt, for their confidence in my knowledge and experience to approach me as a technical reviewer. I would finally also like to thank my family and friends for their support and encouragement.
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Preface
Digital buyers are improving economies around the world, and information technology (IT) provides the necessary subsides to allow customers to buy services and products over the Internet. According to the research conducted by Statista (http://goo.gl/BSCiuO), in 2016, 1.12 billion people worldwide are expected to buy goods and services online.
Since the launch of Amazon.com, the first commercial-free 24-hour e-commerce website, the universe of software development techniques has evolved, and new approaches are emerging, such as cloud computing—previously no more than an embryonic idea, today a concrete application.
The Magento Commerce company, recognized as the leading e-commerce platform in the 2015 Internet Retailer Top 1000, B2B 300, and Hot 100 lists, is in constant evolution since the first Magento Community Edition (CE) system version in 2008. Launched recently, Magento CE 2.0 has great features and takes advantage of the newest client-server techniques providing a mature e-commerce system and a promising professional area to explore.
Magento, used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market.
This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects.
This book begins by showing you how to set up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By the end of the book, you will have quickly explored all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution.
With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
Enjoy the read.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Magento Fundamentals, teaches you how to create a basic environment, install Magento 2.0, and study some Magento concepts.
Chapter 2, Magento 2.0 Features, helps you discover the features of Magento 2.0 and configure some basic Magento options.
Chapter 3, Working with Search Engine Optimization, provides you with some configuration tips to tweak the Magento options for SEO purposes.
Chapter 4, Magento 2.0 Theme Development – the Developers' Holy Grail, gives you an overview of theme development and techniques of customizing Magento 2.0.
Chapter 5, Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme, implements a practical project to create your custom theme.
Chapter 6, Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go, provides you with development techniques by implementing a practical project to create your own Magento extension.
Chapter 7, Go Mobile with Magento 2.0!, covers techniques of working with Magento on mobile devices.
Chapter 8, Speeding up Your Magento 2.0, explains good practices to fine-tune your Magento system and environment to gain performance.
Chapter 9, Improving Your Magento Skills, explores the tools and ways to improve your skills in the Magento universe.
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Who this book is for
If you are a PHP developer who wants to improve your skills in e-commerce development by creating themes and extensions for Magento 2, then this book is for you.
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