Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Magento Development
Chapter 2: CMS and Design
Chapter 3: Adding Extra Functionalities
Chapter 4: Customizing a Store
Chapter 5: Playing with Products
Chapter 6: Adding a Professional Touch to Your Site
Chapter 7: Database Design
Chapter 8: Creating a Module
Chapter 9: Creating a Shipping Module
Chapter 10: Writing a Social Widget
Chapter 11: Performance Optimization
Chapter 12: Debugging and Unit Testing
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Magento Development
• Introduction
• Preparing the platform with a virtual host
• Setting up a Subversion/SVN
• Getting the latest copy of Magento with the SVN checkout
• Setting up MySQL tools
• Setting up a Magento project with NetBeans
• Working with Magento code

• Chapter 2: CMS and Design
• Introduction
• Adding a home link to the menu bar
• Changing any page title in Magento
• Customizing a Magento error page
• Adding AdWords tracking code to order confirmation page in Magento
• Adding a custom CMS layout template
• Adding an RSS feed (last five tweets!)
• Placing the trusty old contact form in CMS
• Integrating JW Image Rotator 3.17 in Magento

• Chapter 3: Adding Extra Functionalities
• Introduction
• Integrating WordPress in Magento
• Creating a new page
• Adding jQuery support
• Adding Lightbox2 in Magento
• Adding an accepted payment banner at the footer

• Chapter 4: Customizing a Store
• Introduction
• Creating a custom "Twitter handle" field in a registration form
• Deleting orders in Magento
• Using Google Website Optimizer
• Creating a custom variable and using its own e-mail templates
• Using Google analytics for Magento
• Creating Catalog and Shopping Cart Price Rules
• Creating a featured product and showing it in the home page
• Creating a custom admin theme

• Chapter 5: Playing with Products
• Introduction
• Setting up the Catalog defaults
• Adding a Facebook 'Like' button in product page
• Setting up Table Rates shipping
• Adding a product to the cart through Querystring
• Creating a configurable product
• Embedding a YouTube video in product details

• Chapter 6: Adding a Professional Touch to Your Site
• Introduction
• Installing Magento 1.4 in PHP 5.3.2 (without mcrypt)
• Optimizing Magento store for search engines
• Implementing PayPal Website Payments
• Pro and Express Checkout into Magento
• Preventing a CSRF attack in Magento

• Chapter 7: Database Design
• Introduction
• Resources and database connections
• Magento database replication using Master Slave setup
• Using the Magento’s Singleton method
• Repairing the Magento database
• Working with Magento’s EAV design

• Chapter 8: Creating a Module
• Introduction
• Creating an empty module with a Module Creator
• Creating the required directories
• Activating a module
• Creating a controller for the module
• Creating a configuration XML file for the module
• Creating a helper for the News module
• Creating models for the module
• Setting up SQL for the News module
• Designing a template for the News module
• Adding required blocks for the News module

• Chapter 9: Creating a Shipping Module
• Introduction
• Initializing module configuration
• Writing an adapter model
• Adding a module in backend
• Adding a module in frontend

• Chapter 10: Writing a Social Widget
• Introduction
• Creating an empty module and an enabler file
• Creating a config file and declaring the widgets
• Writing the default module helper Data.php
• Creating a source model for services multi select in widget configuration
• Creating frontend block for our widget
• Creating templates

• Chapter 11: Performance Optimization
• Introduction
• Measuring/benchmarking your Magento with Siege, ab, Magento profiler, YSlow, Page Speed, GTmetrix, and WebPagetest
• Optimizing Magento database and MySQL configuration
• Optimizing Apache web server configuration
• Tuning Magento configurations
• Using APC/Memcached as the cache backend
• Accelerating PHP: php.ini configuration
• Applying YSlow and Page Speed rules

• Chapter 12: Debugging and Unit Testing
• Introduction
• Installing and configuring Xdebug
• Using FirePHP with Zend Wildfire plugin
• Installing PHPUnit and necessary PHP CLI binaries
• Writing your first Magento test case

• Index