1. Magento Basics Getting started developing for Magento
Magento CE 1.9
Stenik Group Ltd.
Software University
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2. Table of Contents Introduction Course Goals Magento Overview
Getting started – Installing Magento
Frontend/Administration overview
Installing modules
Q&A
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4. About Stenik Founded in 2004 Main areas of expertise
E-Commerce solutions
Corporate Web Sites and Applications
Custom Design
Small company with young team
Compelling projects and great customers

5. Course: Out of Scope We will not learn things like:
PHP Programming language
OOP
Databases
HTML/CSS/Javascript
LAMP/XAMPP setup and troubleshouting
Those are required skills you should have prior attending this course

6. Course Goals Become familiar with Magento 1.9.x Platform
Learn the MVC approach and configurations in Magento
Be able to customize and modify the frontend of an existing e-shop
Learn how to create simple Magento extensions
Have knowledge of advanced mechanisms and possibilities of the platform

7. Assesment 80 points from course projects 5 points for
Be able to customize and modify the frontend of an existing e-shop
Learn how to create simple Magento extensions
Have knowledge of advanced mechanisms and possibilities of the platform

8. What is Magento?
“It's the most powerful online eCommerce platform in the universe”
Source: devdocs.magento.com ;)
“Magento is also an object oriented-PHP framework that can be used to develop modern, dynamic web applications”

9. Magento Editions and Versions
Community Edition (CE) - free
Enterprise Edition (EE) – paid solutions with granted support from Magneto Inc.
Magento Versions
Magento 1.9.x – stable and proven
Magento 2.x – the new rewrite of Magento using modern technologies

10. Architecture Overview
Typical PHP MVC application. Based on Zend Framework
Code is organized into modules
Incorporates ORM for Database Abstraction
XML Files for configurations for various aspects of the platform
Very flexible and easiliy extensible
Event/Observer Pattern
Class overrides
Highly scalable

11. Resources devdocs.magento.com
magento.stackexchange.com // stackoverflow.com
Great Community, personal and companies' blogs
alanstrom.com
sonassi.com/blog
Inchoo.net/blog
SoftUni and Stenik Magento Team
Google and many many others

12. Certification Magento Certified Solution Specialist
Front End Developer Certification
Certified Developer and Developer Plus
Info: u.magento.com/certification

13. Sample Magento Stores Ozone.bg OrangeCenter.bg Hippoland.net
Fashionmix.bg
Case study: shop.angrybirds.com

14. Installing Magento Download and install sample data
Two methods of installation
Download Magento files archive and extract
Clone a github repository
Navigate the browser to the vhost for the project
Follow the steps on the screen

15. Installation Screen

16. Walk-Through: Magento Frontend
Homepage
Reusable components
Header
Footer
Standartized layouts
1 column layout
2 columns with left bar layout
2 columns with right bar layout
3 columns

17. Walk-Through: Magento Frontend 2
Catalog Category View
Toolbar
Layered Navigation (Filters)
Catalog Product View
Product attributes
Shopping Cart
Checkout Process
Customer Account

18. Walk-Through: Magento Administration
Dashboard
Customers
Catalog Categories
Catalog Products
Orders
Configuration

19. Installing Magento Extension
Magento's Extension “app-store” is called Magento Connect
Customer Registartion Required
Free and Paid Extensions
Free extensions are installed via Magento Administration
Paid Extensions are bought from the developers website and extracted into souce tree

20. Installing Magento Extension - Practice
Navigate to Magento Connect
Search for a random extension
Copy the Extension Key
Log in to Magento Administration and Navigate to System – Configuration – Magento Connect – Magento Connect Manager
Paste the key and click Install

21. Summary Magento is powerful e-commerce platform
PHP MVC Application based on Zend Framework
Easily extensible with Extensions both free and paid
Large Community
Highly scalable
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