Category Archives: Development
Getting Started with Magento
First and foremost get more familiar with ZendFramework and PHP (obviously) if you’re not already. Next like others mentioned Alan Storm has put together quite a bit of information for you to soak up. He also has written both the book “No Frills Magento Layout” Edwin van Maastrigt mentioned as well as a multi-part Knowledge
Magento vs X-Cart
Saw this article today, and haven’t posted up here in awhile, thought I would share the article and my comments (currently pending) here for others as well. http://expertmagentodevelopers.wordpress.com/magento-vs-xcart/ While I agree with most of the article, having used both systems extensively I wanted to share a few of my own personal opinions on X-Cart and
Magento version 2.0 (X.Commerce) and eBay
eBay Acquisition the bad(maybe?) news. As everyone may know for the most part, eBay now owns Magento. (at least the details are still being worked out, currently.) Overall I’ve seen some mixed feelings in regards to this, I myself am pretty up in the air; if it’s a good or bad thing, and I think
Magento Supercharged Development Tools and Links
So I’ve been doing some reading up and researching on Magento lately, and found some links to articles and tools I think may be useful, so I’m sharing them with everyone. Enjoy! Module Manager: Creates symlinks between a mapped out file similar to a Makefile in Linux compiling that will create links where they need
Debugging tips & tricks with Magento Commerce
If you are new to Magento then the vast amount of code to digest can be quite overwhelming. However, here are some tips I’ve learned about over the past on some means to tear down Magento and figure out whats making it work. Zend_Debug::dump First off use Zend_Debug::dump($foo); instead of using var_dump($foo); or print_r($foo); it
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