Magento for Developers

• Experience with web development
• PHP and Javascript programming experience

Audience

• Developers

Magento is an open source website platform for e-commerce. It offers fully-featured and highly customizable tools for designing and building online stores.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Magento to design and build a secure and user-friendly online shopping site.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing e-commerce sites with Magento.
• Understand the architecture, core concepts, modules, and file structure in Magento.
• Develop a functional and robust online store by customizing Magento components and modules.
• Implement security enhancement practices in Magento to reduce vulnerabilities and potential cyber attacks.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Overview of Magento features and architecture
• Core concepts, design patterns, and modules

Getting Started

• Setting up the server
• Installing Magento
• Understanding default, developer, and production modes
• Exploring file systems and sample data

Backend Development (PHP)

• Understanding components and file structure
• Managing extension repository structure
• Initializing schema and data
• Building and packaging components
• Running functional and integration tests
• Implementing partial and full page caching
• Using CLI commands

Frontend Development

• Developing themes, layout, and templates
• Customizing themes using CSS
• Designing a mobile-responsive UI (RWD)
• Customizing RWD illustration and breakpoints
• Creating locale dictionaries
• Translating theme strings
• Validating custom forms

Security Management

• Enhancing password management
• Preventing cross-site scripting attacks (XSS)
• Restricting access and file permissions
• Secure coding in Magento
• Managing incident response

Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Summary and Next Steps