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- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Create an interactive online store and customize it further using Magento
Key Features
- A straightforward guide to developing with Magento
- Examples of different types of extension
- Customize the Magento storefront and admin areas
Book 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 learn
- Develop a simple shipping module
- Build admin interfaces with the built-in form and listing UI components
- Implement JavaScript components for improved customer experience
- Accommodate vendor needs by adding new catalog-related features
- Develop your way to a better checkout
- Improve customer interaction with new customer-related extensions
- Create new web APIs to make your modules more extensible
Who this book is for
This book is for competent PHP developers, with only basic knowledge of the Magento platform required.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide
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About the author
Branko Ajzele is a respected and highly accomplished software developer, book author, solution specialist, consultant, and team leader. He currently works for Interactive Web Solutions Ltd (iWeb), where he holds the role of senior developer and is the director of iWeb's Croatia office.
Branko holds several respected IT certifications, including Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Magento Certified Developer, Magento Certified Developer Plus, Magento Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer, to mention just a few.
He was crowned the e-commerce Developer of the Year by the Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in e-commerce development.
About the reviewer
Andrew "Pembo" Pemberton is a Certified Magento Developer with over 20 years' experience building websites. He is based in Stoke-on-Trent, UK and started building websites from the young age of 13. He has a degree in computer science from Staffordshire University.
Andrew is now the development director at iWeb (based in Stafford, UK), which, for over 20 years, has created industry-leading websites and now specializes in large scale Magento solutions and PIM-based projects for a wide range of clients.
Outside of his digital life, Andrew enjoys spending time with his family of pets, traveling with his wife, and being an avid gamer.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide
Packt Upsell
Why subscribe?
Packt.com
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewer
Packt is searching for authors like you
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
Code in Action
Conventions used
Get in touch
Reviews
Understanding the Magento Architecture
Technical requirements
Installing Magento
Modes
Areas
Request flow processing
Modules
Creating the minimal module
Cache
Dependency injection
Argument injection
Virtual types
Proxies
Factories
Plugins
The before plugin
The around plugin
The after plugin
Events and observers
Console commands
Cron jobs
Summary
Working with Entities
Technical requirements
Understanding types of models
Creating a simple model
Methods worth memorizing
Working with setup scripts
The InstallSchema script
The UpgradeSchema script
The Recurring script
The InstallData script
The UpgradeData script
The RecurringData script
Extending entities
Creating extension attributes
Summary
Understanding Web APIs
Technical requirements
Types of users
Types of authentication
Types of APIs
Using existing web APIs
Creating custom web APIs
Understanding search criteria
Summary
Building and Distributing Extensions
Technical requirements
Building a shipping extension
Distributing via GitHub
Distributing via Packagist
Summary
Developing for Admin
Technical requirements
Using the listing component
Using the form component
Summary
Developing for Storefront
Technical requirements
Setting up the playground
Calling and initializing JS components
Meet RequireJS
Replacing jQuery widget components
Extending jQuery widget components
Creating jQuery widgets components
Creating UI/KnockoutJS components
Extending UI/KnockoutJS components
Summary
Customizing Catalog Behavior
Technical requirements
Creating the size guide
Creating the same day delivery
Flagging new products
Summary
Customizing Checkout Experiences
Technical requirements
Passing data to the checkout
Adding order notes to the checkout
Summary
Customizing Customer Interactions
Technical requirements
Understanding the section mechanism
Adding contact preferences to customer accounts
Adding contact preferences to the checkout
Summary
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Preface
Magento is a popular open source e-commerce platform written in PHP. It is used primarily for building web shops, though it can easily be used for other types of websites as well. With the help of its powerful web API, we can build robust solutions that satisfy modern-day application requirements.
By the end of this book, the reader should be familiar with configuration files, models, collections, blocks, controllers, events, observers, plugins, UI components and other building elements of Magento.
Who this book is for
This book is intended for PHP developers getting started with Magento v2.x development. Though compact in terms of page numbers, the book covers a wide range of functionality, allowing the reader to master day-to-day Magento skills in a clear and concise way. No previous Magento knowledge is required.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Understanding the Magento Architecture, takes a look at some of the key Magento components. We will go through plugins and event observers and learn how they provide a powerful way of extending Magento, either by changing the behavior of existing functions or by running some follow-up code in response to certain events.
Chapter 2, Working with Entities, demonstrates how to differentiate between the three types of Magento models: non-persistable, persistable simple, and persistable EAV. We will take a look at the six different setup scripts and how they allow us a great deal of flexibility for schema and data management.
Chapter 3, Understanding Web API, shows the reader how to differentiate between types of web API users, authentication, and methods it provides. We will also take a look at how easy it is to create our own APIs with just a few lines of XML. We will see how the route definition allows for easy binding between what arrives via HTTP requests and what is executed in code, respecting the access list permissions in the process.
Chapter 4, Building and Distributing Extensions, discusses how to create a simple shipping module. We shall take a look at how easy it is to add specific shipping calculations as part of offline shipping methods. We will then package this module and distribute it via Packagist. This makes it easy for the end consumer to use our module with just a few simple console commands.
Chapter 5, Developing for Admin, walks the reader through building two very different screens in the Magento admin area. One utilizes the listing component, whereas the other utilizes the form component.
Chapter 6, Developing for Storefront, covers the bits and pieces involved in storefront development, which JS components make the most challenging part of. We will understand how to write new components, as well as how to override or bypass existing ones – an essential skill for any Magento developer, be it backend or frontend.
Chapter 7, Customizing Catalog Behavior, demonstrates building three distinctive functionalities, all of which relate to the catalog part of Magento. They demonstrate how easily Magento can be extended with new features without really overriding any of the core files. Using plugins and JS components are just some of the approaches we might take.
Chapter 8, Customizing Checkout Experience, demonstrates writing a small but functional order notes module. This will allow us to familiarize ourselves with an important aspect of customizing the checkout experience, the gist of which lies in understanding the checkout_index_index layout handle, the JavaScript window.checkoutConfig object, and uiComponent.
Chapter 9, Customizing Customer Interactions, walks the reader through building a small module that allows us to get a greater insight into Magento's customer data and sections mechanism. We will learn how to manage and build a single component, which will get used both on the customer's My Account page, as well as at the checkout.
To get the most out of this book
To get the most out of the book, the reader is expected to have:
A degree of PHP
object
-
oriented programming
(
OOP
) knowledge
A basic understanding of JavaScript and XML
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Understanding the Magento Architecture
Building web shops is a challenging and tedious job, and even more so if a platform you are working on is limited via features, extensibility, and the overall ecosystem it provides. Choosing the right platform can often make the difference between a project's success or failure. The abundance of available e-commerce software, from SaaS to self-hosted solutions, does not really make it an easy choice.
The Magento e-commerce platform has been around for over 10 years now. With its first stable release dating back to March 2008, it immediately caught the attention of developers as an extensible and feature-rich open source platform. Over time, Magento established itself as not just a stunning technical and feature-rich platform, but as a robust ecosystem as well. By allowing developers to validate their real-world skills through the Magento certification program, certain standards have been put into effect, making it easier for merchants to better recognize their solution partners. Training courses have been further provided for other roles in e-commerce business as well, such as merchants, marketers, system administrators, and business analysts.
In this chapter, we will take a look at some of the key must-knows about Magento:
Installing Magento
Modes
Areas
Request flow processing
Modules
Cache
Dependency injection
Plugins
Events and observers
Console commands
Cron jobs
To keep things compact as we move forward, let's assume the following throughout this book:
We are working on the
magelicious.loc
project
We are referring to our project root directory as
<PROJECT_DIR>
We are referring to the
<PROJECT_DIR>/app/code/Magelicious
directory as
<MAGELICIOUS_DIR>
We are referring to Magento's
vendor/magento
directory as
<MAGENTO_DIR>
We have a running LAMP/
MAMP/
WAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is compliant with Magento's requirements
We have a Composer package manager installed
We have access to crontab (Linux, MacOS) or Task Scheduler (Windows)
Technical requirements
You will need to have basic knowledge of PHP, OOP, JavaScript, and XML. You will also need Apache, MySQL, and AMPPS installed on your system to execute the codes.
The code files of this chapter can be found on GitHub:https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Magento-2-Quick-Start-Guide.
Check out the following video to see the Code in Action:
http://bit.ly/2D8kOlF.
Installing Magento
The Magento platform comes in two flavors:
Magento
Open Source
: The free version, targeting small businesses
Magento
Commerce
: The commercial version, targeting small, medium, or enterprise businesses
The difference between the two comes mainly in the form of extra modules that were added to the Commerce version, whereas all the coding concepts and core features remain the same. It goes to say that any knowledge we obtain through following Magento Open Source examples is fully applicable to anyone working on Magento Commerce.
There are several ways that we can obtain source files for Magento Open Source:
Source file archive (
.zip
,
.tar.gz
,
.tar.bz2
), available at
https://magento.com
Git repository, available at
https://github.com/magento/magento2
Composer repository, available at
https://repo.magento.com
Obtaining source files via a CLI from the composer repository is our preferred method. Assuming we are within the empty <PROJECT_DIR> directory, we can kick off this process via the following command:
composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition .
The dot (.) at the end of this command this tells the composer to pull the files into a current directory.
Once the Composer process is finished, we can start installing Magento. There are two ways we can install Magento:
Via the Web Setup Wizard
: The graphical, browser-based process
Via the
command line
: T
he command-line-based process
Knowing how to install Magento via the command line is an essential skill in day-to-day development, as the majority of development requires the developer to tackle various bin/magento commands—not to mention the command line approach is somewhat faster and easily scripted.
Let's install Magento with the built-in php bin/magento setup:install command and a few of the required installation options as follows:
php bin/magento setup:install \
--db-host="/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock" \
--db-name=magelicious \
--db-user=root
--db-password=root \
--admin-firstname=John \
--admin-lastname=Doe \
--admin-user=john \
--admin-password=jrdJ%0i9a69n
After the preceding command has been executed, we should begin to see console progress, starting with something like the following:
Starting Magento installation:
File permissions check...
[Progress: 1 / 513]
Required extensions check...
[Progress: 2 / 513]
Enabling Maintenance Mode...
[Progress: 3 / 513]
Installing deployment configuration...
[Progress: 4 / 513]
Installing database schema:
Schema creation/updates:
Module 'Magento_Store':
[Progress: 5 / 513]
While it might take up to a few minutes, a successful installation should end with a message that's similar to the following:
[Progress: 508 / 513]
Installing admin user...
[Progress: 509 / 513]
Caches clearing:
Cache cleared successfully
[Progress: 510 / 513]
Disabling Maintenance Mode:
[Progress: 511 / 513]
Post installation file permissions check...
For security, remove write permissions from these directories: '/Users/branko/Projects/magelicious/app/etc'
[Progress: 512 / 513]
Write installation date...
[Progress: 513 / 513]
[SUCCESS]: Magento installation complete.
[SUCCESS]: Magento Admin URI: /admin_mxq00c
Nothing to import.
Right after installation, our first step should be to set Magento to developer mode by using the following command:
php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer
We will take a closer look at Magento modes soon; for now, this is to be taken as is.
