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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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

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|Dec 2015
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Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2

Key Features

  • Solve common problems encountered while extending your Magento 2 store to fit your business needs
  • Delve into the exciting and enhanced features of Magento 2 such as customizing security permissions, intelligent filtered search options, easy third-party integration, among others
  • Learn to build and maintain a Magento 2 shop via a visual-based page editor and customize the look and feel using Magento 2’s offerings on the go

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.

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

Who this book is for

This book is for every developer who has knowledge of PHP and wants to extend or customize the functionality of their Magento 2 system. If you have prior experience of the Magento platform, you will find this book useful in exploring the advanced features.

Table of Contents

  1. Upgrading from Magento 1
  2. Working with products
  3. Theming
  4. Creating a module
  5. Databases and modules
  6. Magento backend
  7. Event handlers and cronjobs
  8. Creating a shipping module
  9. Creating a product slider widget
  10. Performance Optimization
  11. Debugging and Unit testing
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-914-1
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 304