1. Design & Module Development
Magento 1
Stenik Group Ltd.
Martin Grozdanov
Software University
© Software University Foundation –
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 1

2. Last time Magento Installation Administration & Frontend
Basic File Architecture
Basic Module Components
© Software University Foundation –
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 2

3. Table of Contents Convention URLs’ structure Design elements
Design Fallback
Design Development
Module Development 3
© Software University Foundation –
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 3

4. Magento Class Convention
Magento uses Zend Framework’s convention
All classes are named by their path. For example:
No closing php tag in .php files!
<?php
# .../Mage/Catalog/Model/Product.php
class Mage_Catalog_Model_Product extends … { … } 4

5. URL structure
<frontName> – keyword defined by module
<controller> – relative path&name of the controller
<action> - The controller’s method’s name without the Action suffix. 5

6. Design – Blocks
Module components used to provide information to the layout. 6

7. Design - Layouts .xml files used to describe the pages’ layout
Basic components:
handles
blocks
actions
removes 7

8. Design - Templates
.phtml files used to describe the HTML of some element
Basic functions:
Block’s methods
getChildHtml 8

9. Design Fallback Magento first checks the sat up package’s theme
Next - package’s default theme
Next - base package’s theme 9

10. Creating a module
Step 1. Tell Magento for your module by creating file in app/etc/modules/SoftUni_Submission.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<SoftUni_Submission>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</ SoftUni_Submission >
</modules>
</config> 10

11. Creating a module
Step 2. add config.xml for your module by creating file in app/code/local/SoftUni/Submission/config.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<SoftUni_Submission>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</ SoftUni_Submission >
</modules>
</config> 11

12. Creating a module Step x. Create Helper – you may need it.
Define it in config.xml
Create helper class in app/code/local/SoftUni/Submission/Helper/Data.php 12

13. Creating a module Step x. Create installer
See Mage_Sales’s installer, how it’s defined in the ‘resources’ tag in it’s config.xml and how tables are created in the sql folder 13

14. Creating a module
Step x. Create Models, Controllers, Blocks, layouts and etc.
Define it in config.xml
Create their class/file 14

15. © Software University Foundation – http://softuni.org
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 15

16. Thank you 16

17. License This course (slides, examples, demos, videos, homework, etc.)
is licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International" license 17
© Software University Foundation –
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 17

18. Trainings @ Software University (SoftUni)
Software University – High-Quality Education, Profession and Job for Software Developers
softuni.bg
Software University Foundation
softuni.org
Software Facebook
facebook.com/SoftwareUniversity
Software University Forums
forum.softuni.bg
© Software University Foundation –
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 18