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Magento 2 Development Essentials

Magento 2 Development Essentials: Get up and running with Magento 2 to create custom solutions, themes, and extensions effectively

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Magento 2 Development Essentials

Chapter 2. Magento 2.0 Features

Magento has many features to provide a great experience to the users and developers. Understanding what Magento can provide is the key to success in the development of Magento. All Magento developers seek for improvements in this area.

On the Magento Connect site (https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/), you can search for uncountable extensions to improve your Magento solution: Checkout, Cart, Order Management, Gifting, Pricing, and Promotion, and a lot more. At this point, it is crucial to understand that Magento has a native solution and how its features can help you think of some great solutions for development.

In the previous chapter, you learned the fundamentals to create a basic local Magento environment to work with book projects. In this chapter, you will learn how Magento manages and improves system sell processes.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Magento features
  • Magento architecture
  • Magento order management
  • Magento...

The revolution of Magento 2.0

Magento Commerce has promoted important changes between its 1.x and 2.0 versions. Some usual problems of the Magento 1.x version were fixed in this new version. The following processes/modules have received improvements in Magento 2.0:

  • Performance
  • Payment method
  • Checkout
  • Catalog
  • CMS
  • Web API
  • Framework
  • Setup

All good software or systems pass through incremental improvements for evolving according to its production environment; it couldn't be different with a commerce platform that powers over 250,000 online stores worldwide.

Magento 2.0 CE has a flexible architecture and a modular code base; it has a modern theming and an extensive Application Programming Interface (API). To get a better performance, Magento 2.0 compresses JavaScript files and images and gives support to Apache Varnish integration on the server side to enable faster performance.

Security is another subject treated in the Magento 2.0 system. According to its official documentation (http://goo.gl/E7sPm3...

An introduction to the Magento order management system

An introduction to the Magento order management system

On the e-commerce systems, the sell process is one of the most important features of every online business, providing a good e-commerce life cycle.

Some processes will be triggered when a customer confirms his order. Magento collects all the customer data and processes the request turning it into an order. This book will only cover the basic concepts of this process, but it's very important to understand them to develop consistent Magento extension solutions (we will see about this in Chapter 6, Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go).

Let's take a look at the Magento sales operations basics.

Sales operations

Let's play with the Magento admin area. In your favorite browser, enter the URL http://localhost/packt/admin-packt. Now, enter with your login credentials to access the admin area:

Sales operations

In Magento 2.0, you can manage sales operations by accessing the Sales menu in the admin area. Magento gives you the possibility...

Magento 2.0 command-line configuration

Once you have installed Magento 2.0 CE, you will need to configure some options and manage the system life cycle according to your specific needs. You can start your Magento configuration and administration using the command-line utility.

Let's see how this feature works.

The command-line utility

Magento 2.0 has a command-line utility to help developers manage installation and configuration tasks. The new command-line interface can do the following:

  • Install Magento
  • Manage the cache
  • Manage indexers
  • Configure and run cron
  • Compile code
  • Set the Magento mode
  • Set the URN highlighter
  • Create dependency reports
  • Translate dictionaries and language packages
  • Deploy static view files
  • Create symlinks to LESS files
  • Run unit tests
  • Convert layout into XML files
  • Generate data for performance testing
  • Create CSS from LESS (CSS real-time compilation)

To work with this tool, you will need to open a terminal (Linux, OS X) or command prompt (Windows) and access the <your Magento install dir>/bin directory. Then, enter with the php magento command to see all the available commands of the command-line utility:

The command-line utility

Note

Remember to configure the PHP path to the system environment variable to execute the command. For further information, access http://php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php.

Let&apos...

Summary

We started this chapter to get the real bases of Magento power. It's important to get solid concepts, before you eagerly jump and begin developing Magento solutions. Take a moment to understand the scope of your project. This will make Magento development a much more rewarding experience.

Magento has a solid structure to develop your own solutions. You can automate some tasks using the Magento command-line utility and optimize Magento resources to get better results.

In the next chapter, we will work with Magento search engine optimization.

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Key benefits

  • Create unique solutions for Magento 2 by developing and implementing solutions, themes, and extensions
  • Be proficient in the main functionalities, resources, and system structure of Magento 2
  • Get to grips with this practical and hands-on guide to raise your web development skills to the next level

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Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market. This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects. This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution. With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.

Who is this book for?

If you are a PHP developer who wants to improve your skills in e-commerce development by creating themes and extensions for Magento 2, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Install and set up the Magento Ecosystem
  • Choose the best options for Magento's Sell System features
  • Work with Search Engine Optimization in Magento
  • Create and customize themes for Magento
  • Develop extensions for new Magento functionalities
  • Package extensions to publish in the Magento Connect network
  • Create Magento solutions for mobile devices
  • Carry out performance adjustments to speed up your Magento system
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1. Magento Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Magento 2.0 Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Working with Search Engine Optimization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Magento 2.0 Theme Development – the Developers' Holy Grail Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Go Mobile with Magento 2.0! Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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