Magento PHP Developer's Guide

Allan MacGregor

Apr 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

This book is written for developers who have previous experience with PHP and PHP frameworks, such as Zend or CakePHP, and want to start developing and working with Magento. Even developers with previous experience with Magento will find the book extremely useful to gain a full understanding of Magento fundamentals, architecture, and overall philosophy.

Ratings and reviews

Pretty good book in general. In fact, it's the best learning resource for Magento I've found so far. One issue I had though was that the module in the book had a few bugs that needed ironing out which could be frustrating for a total newcomer to Magento. Also, a few of the pages on the supporting website weren't finished. I would like to have seen more detailed explanations of each line of code, I found a lot of the code was left totally unexplained. I'd also would have liked one or two more example modules

This book is awful. The first few chapters are just code pasted from the magento code base as examples, but the formatting makes it extremely difficult to read. It's easier to just review the code in an IDE. Further, the code samples don't reference the file they are pulled from, which is infuriating. The first chapter that actually provides instruction trying out your own logic in magento starts the chapter with a reference to the author's obscure command line program that isn't part of magento at all. Go somewhere else to learn magento, save your money and don't buy this book.

The book misses out part of the module for space saving. This wouldn't be so bad if the companion site link worked or when you found the code it actually worked! Try another book if you want to learn how to build a complete magento plugin.

About the author

Allan MacGregor is a Magento Certified Developer Plus with four years of Magento experience. He also has a certification in Linux System Administration by IBM. He started working with Magento as a freelance looking for a better framework to build e-commerce solutions, and he is now the Magento Lead Developer at Demac Media (www.demacmedia.com). He's very passionate about software development in general. He is constantly working with new technologies and frameworks. At Demac Media, he has participated in building core solutions for a wide range of clients; this has given him the experience and knowledge to solve many Magento challenges. As part of an internal project at Demac Media, he worked on Triplecheck.io (www.triplecheck.io), a unique service for monitoring and auditing the code health of a Magento store. You can also follow him on Twitter at http: //www.twitter.com/allanmacgregor