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1 - Key Foundational Concepts: Understanding the Framework
Magento is a winding maze with all types of twists and turns. This tutorial focuses on the concepts that underly Magento and explains them in a way that is easy to understand. These concepts are the foundation upon which the framework is built.
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2 - Understanding the MVC in Magento, creating a controller
You'll be able to understand the important aspects of the MVC in the first half of this tutorial. In the second half, you will create a new page in Magento, which will reinforce the concepts discussed in the first half. The beauty of this tutorial is that it breaks down concepts and terminology using examples and words in such a way that this topic with many moving parts is easy to understand!
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3 - Create a Simple Block
This tutorial will guide you with step by step instructions on how to create a block, but it is really much more than that! Magento many times does things automatically with minimal code but when this happens it's hard to understand how it actually works. This tutorial provides examples that dig into how blocks are created by looking at this topic from a different angle. This tutorial shows you in a more manully manner how the process works so that you can understand exactly what is happening.
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4 - Create a simple block (with a template)
This tutorial provides a look at template files from a slightly different viewpoint. It delves into the details as to how exactly templates are set and rendered. The "manual" approach explains the mechanics behind what is happening. This will give you a deep understanding of this topic and will set the stage nicely for the next tutorial where this will be performed automatically.
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5 - Create a simple block (using layout xml)
This step-by-step tutorial walks you through how to create a block in the manner that Magento usually creates them. The practical example is designed to hit upon a a number of variations you may encounter as well as to clearly reinforce the knowledge you need to understand the more common situations.
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6 - An Introduction to Models
What are models, how do they work, what do they do, what are some of the most common things you will need do with them, and how do you accomplish those. All of these will be explained in this tutorial. This tutorial provides the conceptual groundwork you will need.
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7 - Create a Flat Model
This tutorial contains a "fast" method for creating a new model. You can easily create a model in less than 20 minutes using this approach and you'll get faster each time you do it. Also, this tutorial contains a step-by-step approach if you like to see the details spelled out and see how things actually work. You'll also gain a much better understanding of the config.xml as placeholders come with the example files explaining what the nodes in the config.xml file mean.
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8 - Understanding the Critical Concepts Behind the EAV
This tutorial is a blend of conceptual and practical (follow along) examples. At the end of this tutorial, you will have a penetrating knowledge of this topic. This tutorial includes a step-by-step example that teaches you how to find data you are looking for (like an individual product's name or image) in an EAV table. This tutorial demystifies the EAV by discussing each concept behind it, in an easy to understand way.
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9 - Create an EAV Model
This tutorial contains resusable code that you can use whenever you create an EAV model. It also includes a fast method for creating an EAV model. With this "fast" method, even the first time you create an EAV model, this will only take 45 minutes! It also contains a step by step method for creating an EAV model if you are interested in the details, which are good to know to bolster your understanding.
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10 - Setup Scripts - Create setup scripts and understand the essential concepts behind them
In this step-by-step tutorial you will learn how to create and execute setup scripts by making 5 of your own. Besides attaining practical knowledge, you will also gain a through conceptual understanding as this tutorial discusses thsoe ideas and concepts behind this. You will also learn when and why these need to be used.
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11 - Setup Scripts - Creating and Editing Tables
This tutorial is very comprehensive. It explains how to create a new column in an existing table or edit a column in that table. The code is meant to be reused and it contains examples of most all of the fields you would need to create in a table. The code for creating tables has examples of how to create many different types of fields (text, datetime, integer, etc.) so please resuse this as often as you like.
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12 - Setup Scripts - A Full Understanding
What if you want to create an attribute, edit an existing attribute, or add a higher level of customization to your setup scripts. This tutorial will expose you to those concepts that are necessary for understanding how to do bigger and better things with setup scripts. You will encounter these often in your work as a developer.
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13 - Setup Scripts - How to Create An Attribute (part 1)
What if you want to keep track of a customer's nickname or designate a product as a 'special sale item'. Learn how to create attributes to add fields to Magento's database.This tutorial contains an example of how to create both a customer and product attribute. It will explain the most important settings you will need to know to setup an attribute.
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14 - Setup Scripts - How to Create An Attribute (part 2)
This tutorial delves into what the different attribute settings mean such as type, input, label, etc. It contains an example of a drop down, radio button, multiselect, dates, and standard text fields to teach you how to create a variety of different types of attributes. It delves into common attribute settings so that you will understand the different ways you can customize the attributes to create to fit your client's needs.
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1 - Creating a basic module
In this tutorial, you will create the simplest module possible. After doing this twice, you will be provided with a free custom gift extension to show what a really advanced and cool module looks like. This lesson lays the groundwork for future tutorials.
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