Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Bart Delvaux

Dec 2015 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2About This BookSolve common problems encountered while extending your Magento 2 store to fit your business needsDelve into the exciting and enhanced features of Magento 2 such as customizing security permissions, intelligent filtered search options, easy third-party integration, among othersLearn 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 goWho 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.

What You Will LearnInstall a Magento 2 shop with sample dataUpgrade the data in a Magento 1 shop to a Magento 2 shopManage the look and feel of the shop with custom themesExtend the shop with custom functionality such as forms, grids, and moreAccelerate your store with some performance toolsBuild and structure your own shipping moduleTest your shop with automated tests and manage your product displayIn Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book is packed with a wide range of techniques to modify and extend the functionality of your online store. It contains easy-to-understand recipes starting with the basics and moving on to cover advanced topics. Many recipes work with code examples that can be downloaded from the book's website.

About the author

Bart Delvaux is an experienced web developer with several years of experience in the PHP world. He has worked with the most important frameworks in PHP, such as Drupal and Zend Framework, but Magento is his specialization. Bart has obtained all the Magento developer certifications: Front End Developer, Developer, as well as Developer Plus. He currently works for ISAAC Software Solutions, a company that specializes in software solutions such as web shops, apps, system integrations, and more. Bart finished a large variety of Magento projects in his Magento career that started in 2010 with the principle "quality above quantity". Having gone from handling a basic shop to shipping modules and large, complex Magento stores, Magento holds no secrets from him. Bart has also worked on Magento 1.8 Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing. Now that Magento 2 is out, it is time for the next one!