Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2

Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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Bart Delvaux

Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2
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ISBN 139781785882197
Paperback304 pages

Book Description

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Upgrading from Magento 1
Introduction
Creating a Magento 1 website with sample data
Creating a Magento 2 website
Preparing an upgrade from Magento 1
Upgrading the database
Using an IDE
Writing clean code with PHP MD and PHP CS
Chapter 2: Working with Products
Introduction
Configuring the catalog defaults
Working with attribute sets
Working with product types
Adding social media buttons
Embedding an HTML object
Changing the URL of a product page
Chapter 3: Theming
Introduction
Exploring the default Magento 2 themes
Creating a Magento 2 theme
Customizing the HTML output
Adding extra files to the theme
Working with LESS
Changing a page title
Working with translations
Adding widgets to the layout
Customizing email templates
Chapter 4: Creating a Module
Introduction
Creating the module files
Creating a controller
Adding layout updates
Adding a translation file
Adding a block of new products
Adding an interceptor
Adding a console command
Chapter 5: Databases and Modules
Introduction
Creating an install and upgrade script
Creating a flat table with models
Working with Magento collections
Programmatically adding product attributes
Repairing the database
Chapter 6: Magento Backend
Introduction
Registering a backend controller
Extending the menu
Adding an ACL
Adding configuration parameters
Creating a grid of a database table
Working with backend components
Adding customer attributes
Working with source models
Chapter 7: Event Handlers and Cronjobs
Introduction
Understanding event types
Creating your own event
Adding an event observer
Introducing cronjobs
Creating and testing a new cronjob
Chapter 8: Creating a Shipping Module
Introduction
Initializing module configurations
Writing an adapter model
Extending the shipping method features
Adding the module in the frontend
Chapter 9: Creating a Product Slider Widget
Introduction
Creating an empty module
Creating a widget configuration file
Creating the block and template files
Creating a custom configuration parameter
Finalizing the theming
Chapter 10: Performance Optimization
Introduction
Benchmarking a website
Optimizing the frontend of the website
Optimizing the database and MySQL configurations
Optimizing the Apache web server
Finding performance leaks in Magento
Configuring OPcache, Redis, and Memcached
Optimizing the PHP configurations
Chapter 11: Debugging and Unit Testing
Introduction
Logging into Magento 2
Getting started with Xdebug
Running automated tests from Magento
Creating a Magento test case

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

Authors

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Upgrading from Magento 1
Introduction
Creating a Magento 1 website with sample data
Creating a Magento 2 website
Preparing an upgrade from Magento 1
Upgrading the database
Using an IDE
Writing clean code with PHP MD and PHP CS
Chapter 2: Working with Products
Introduction
Configuring the catalog defaults
Working with attribute sets
Working with product types
Adding social media buttons
Embedding an HTML object
Changing the URL of a product page
Chapter 3: Theming
Introduction
Exploring the default Magento 2 themes
Creating a Magento 2 theme
Customizing the HTML output
Adding extra files to the theme
Working with LESS
Changing a page title
Working with translations
Adding widgets to the layout
Customizing email templates
Chapter 4: Creating a Module
Introduction
Creating the module files
Creating a controller
Adding layout updates
Adding a translation file
Adding a block of new products
Adding an interceptor
Adding a console command
Chapter 5: Databases and Modules
Introduction
Creating an install and upgrade script
Creating a flat table with models
Working with Magento collections
Programmatically adding product attributes
Repairing the database
Chapter 6: Magento Backend
Introduction
Registering a backend controller
Extending the menu
Adding an ACL
Adding configuration parameters
Creating a grid of a database table
Working with backend components
Adding customer attributes
Working with source models
Chapter 7: Event Handlers and Cronjobs
Introduction
Understanding event types
Creating your own event
Adding an event observer
Introducing cronjobs
Creating and testing a new cronjob
Chapter 8: Creating a Shipping Module
Introduction
Initializing module configurations
Writing an adapter model
Extending the shipping method features
Adding the module in the frontend
Chapter 9: Creating a Product Slider Widget
Introduction
Creating an empty module
Creating a widget configuration file
Creating the block and template files
Creating a custom configuration parameter
Finalizing the theming
Chapter 10: Performance Optimization
Introduction
Benchmarking a website
Optimizing the frontend of the website
Optimizing the database and MySQL configurations
Optimizing the Apache web server
Finding performance leaks in Magento
Configuring OPcache, Redis, and Memcached
Optimizing the PHP configurations
Chapter 11: Debugging and Unit Testing
Introduction
Logging into Magento 2
Getting started with Xdebug
Running automated tests from Magento
Creating a Magento test case

Book Details

ISBN 139781785882197
Paperback304 pages
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