Magento Basics part 2 Modules & Themes Stenik Group Ltd. Magento Martin Grozdanov martin@stenik.bg Software University http://softuni.bg © Software University Foundation – http://softuni.org This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 1

Table of Contents Using PHP7 With Magento Magento & Modules Installing modules – Cons Magento & Composer Themes Modules’ Basic Components Modules’ Basic File Architecture Themes’ Basic File Architecture Q&A 2 © Software University Foundation – http://softuni.org This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 2

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Using PHP7 With Magento? Patch it. https://github.com/Inchoo/Inchoo_PHP7/tree/master 4

Magento & Modules Magento is module based framework Most of Magento’s core modules are dependent of each other. Naming convention <Namespace>_<Module> Mage_Customer Mage_Catalog Every module is declared with XML file in app/etc/modules/ 5

Installing modules - Cons Magento Connect Install & Cons The module cannot be committed using Magento Connect. The module is hard to be updated from other machines. Manual Install & Cons The module is hard to be updated. 6

Magento & Composer Installing module with composer { "minimum-stability": "dev", "repositories": { "firegento": { "type": "composer", "url": "https://packages.firegento.com" } }, "require": { "magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "3.0.*" "extra": { "magento-root-dir" : "./", "magento-deploystrategy": "copy", "magento-force": "override" Installing module with composer 7

Themes What are themes? Themes in Magento are the representative part Magento – HTML & Layout. Each theme is within package – similar to modules’ namespaces. Installation Just like modules – via Magento Connect, Manual, Composer and etc. 8

Modules’ Basic Components Controllers What to be seen/used. Models Things to be seen/used. Blocks (Views) How to be seen. Helpers The other components’ sidekicks. config.xml Configuration Installers & Updaters 9

Modules’ Basic File Architecture app/etc/modules/<Namespace>_<Module>.xml app/code/<pool>/<Namespace>/<Module>/ Block controllers Helper Model etc sql ... 10

Themes’ Basic File Architecture app/design/frontend/<package>/<theme> layout template … skin/frontend/<package>/<theme> css images js 11

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