Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide
  • Extending Magento
  • Core development functionality coverage
    • Core principles of development
    • System maintenance
    • Payment and shipping module development
    • Module development
    • Data portability and interaction
  • Chapter overview
    • Installing, upgrading, and preparing for development
    • System architecture
    • Shipping modules
    • Payment modules
    • Basic module creation and implementation
    • Fully-featured module development with administration panels
    • Integration of third-party CMS
    • Magento's core API
    • Importing and exporting data
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Installing/Upgrading Magento and Preparing for Development
  • Requirements
  • Types of installation
    • Manual
      • Installing
      • Upgrading
    • Downloader
      • Installing
      • Upgrading
    • SSH (Secure Shell)
      • Installing
      • Upgrading
    • SVN (Subversion Network)
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Magento's Architecture
  • Magento's base structure
    • Base directory
      • The function of each of the files in the base directory
      • The function of each of the folders in the base directory
  • The template system architecture
  • Structural blocks and content blocks
    • XML layout files
    • Hierarchical file processing
  • Modules and how they work within the system
    • Distribution of the modules between directories
    • Modules included with Magento
    • Setting up the folder structure of a module
  • Zend Framework and its role within Magento
    • What is Zend Framework
    • How Zend Framework works
    • It's role and effect in Magento
  • Backing up Magento's data
    • Backing up the files
      • Manually
      • Using SSH
    • Backing up the database
      • Using the system itself
      • Using phpMyAdmin
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Shipping Modules in Magento
  • What shipping modules do
  • How to begin with a shipping module
    • The configuration files
    • The adaptor model
    • The administration setup
    • Declaring further fields and learning how they're structured
    • Appearing in the administration
      • Free shipping
      • Handling
      • Restricting a shipping method to certain countries
  • Using our template to create a shipping method
    • The configuration files
    • Our adaptor
    • The administration configuration
    • Testing our newly built module
    • Code to allow our shipping module to meet our needs
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Building a Payment Module for Magento
  • How payment methods work in Magento
    • Payment methods that are bundled with Magento
    • Downloadable payment methods on Magento Connect
  • Building the base of a payment method
    • Module declaration
    • Module configuration
    • The adaptor model
      • Payment information storage
      • Four core components
    • Declaring configuration options for the admin panel
      • Setting up the core fields
      • Some other field types you can use
      • Obscuring fields
      • Custom fields from our models
    • Tying in automatic shipping tracking/updating
    • Automatic shippingtracking and code-generation tie-in
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Building a Basic Featured Products Module
  • How it works
    • Creating the attributes in the system
    • Setting the field values
      • Attribute Properties
      • Frontend Properties
      • Manage Label/Options
    • Creating the core module with functionality
    • Adding the XML block declaration for display of the module on the frontend
    • Creating templates for display
    • Defining the module in the local .xml module configuration file
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Fully-Featured Module for Magento with Admin Panel
  • Creating our first Hello World message
    • Setting up the display template
    • Placing the display template in a layout .xml file
  • Creating our first /helloworld/ URL structure
    • The directory structure
    • Giving the module a backend
    • Configuring the module
    • Our controller
    • The Helper model
    • The module's default model
    • Template blocks and display
      • Display block class
      • The layout .xml file
      • The design template file
    • Viewing /helloworld/
    • Taking a look at what we've put together
  • Using the Module Creator script to get Hello World
    • Installing the Module Creator
    • Creating our first module with the Module Creator
    • The contents of our new module
  • Hello World
  • Expanding our module further into a database-driven, administrated brands module
    • Recreating the base
      • The directory structure
      • Enabling the module in the backend
      • Our controller
      • Configuring the module
      • The Helper model
      • The module's default model
      • The module’s frontend display base
    • Extending the base towards introducing a database
      • The configuration .xml file
      • The mySQL4 data models
      • Database setup and installation of the file
    • Extending the module to include an administration
      • Adminhtml directories
      • Administrative display blocks
      • Defining the core administrative backend to the system
      • Defining the add/edit screens to the system
      • The module's grid display declaration
      • Preparing the form
      • Defining the add/edit form tabs
      • Configuring and preparing the form for display
      • Setting up our brand status array
      • Creating a controller to process access URLs
      • Changing the module's config.xml to reflect the administrative backend
      • Giving our administrative backend a layout .xml file
      • A look at the administrative backend
    • The index controller
    • Displaying the brands data
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Integration of Third-Party CMS
  • Notable things about CMS Integration
  • The WYSIWYG editor implementation
  • Integrating Wordpress
    • Installation
    • Configuration
      • WordPress Blog Settings
      • WordPress Blog Menu
    • Changing the display of integration
      • Page/post layout
      • Sidebar
  • Other content management systems
    • Typo3
    • Drupal
    • ExpressionEngine
    • Joomla!
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Magento's Core API
  • What is the Core API?
    • Which Core APIs are included?
    • What do the Core APIs do?
    • Prerequisites to using the Core API
    • Examples of what can be done with the Core API
    • Giving scripts access to the Core API
  • Choice of protocols
    • SOAP
      • Checking for SOAP installation on the server
      • Putting SOAP to use
      • Zend Framework SOAP Client
    • XML RPC
      • Getting XML RPC on our server
      • Setting up the Zend Framework XML RPC class
      • Putting XML RPC to use
  • Basic API methods
    • Describing the methods
    • Understanding the methods individually
      • startSession()
      • endSession(sessionId)
      • login(apiUser, apiKey)
      • call(sessionId, resourcePath, array arguments)
      • multiCall(sessionId, array calls, array options)
      • resources(sessionId)
      • globalFaults(sessionId)
      • resourceFaults(sessionId, resourceName)
    • Global API Faults
  • Basic API scripting: Customer API
    • Getting started
    • Creating a customer
    • Retrieving an individual customer's details
    • Updating the customer's details
    • Listing all customers from the database
    • Deleting a customer from the database
  • Complete list of available resources and methods
    • Customer methods
    • Directory methods
    • Catalog methods
    • Sales methods
    • Inventory methods
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Importing and Exporting Data
  • What kind of data can I export or import?
  • An introduction to the interface
    • Profile Wizard
      • Profile Information
      • File information
      • Data Format
      • Field Mapping
      • Export Filters
    • Upload Files
    • Run Profile
    • Profile Action XML
    • Profile History
  • Sample implementation: Import/Export of metadata
    • Exporting our metadata
      • Setting up the Profile Information
      • Adding the File Information
      • Selecting the Data Format
      • Mapping our fields
      • Choosing the Export Filters
    • Importing our metadata
      • Setting up the Profile Information
      • Adding the File Information
      • Selecting the Data Format
      • Mapping our fields
  • Common issues with importing/exporting
    • Bad CSV file formatting
    • Short descriptions
    • Import/export paths
    • Images location
    • Importing multiple images
  • Summary

• Index

Jamie Huskisson

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