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What would you do if someone threw 8,461 marables at you and expected you to catch them? Magento has this many php files in the app/code directory. Codepools are the children directories of the code folder and these serve as storage containers for different types of files in Magento. This tutorial will even explain how to create a new codepool. You won't need to create your own codepools in real life, but by going the extra mile, you will have great clarity and depth of understanding on this topic.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When looking at the layout XML files, many times blocks are stored inside of other blocks just like the picture of the Russian dolls. This tutorial demystifies how nesting works and how you can do it yourself. And, this tutorial will walk you through an example of exactly how to do this. The tutorial contains two whole example modules illustrating how this is done. The second example is more complex; it is designed to broaden the knowledge you learned earlier and deepen your understanding.
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Here, you wil learn how to add a block to a new page or an existing page. This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through an example of adding a block. The examples in this tutorial are of tasks that you will do constantly as a developer!
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Many times deveopers will directly edit the core layout xml files or overwrite them. Both of these methods are frowned upon. So, in order to understand the standards,you must know how merging works. This tutorial, like all the others, contains a myriad of examples and images that explain exactly how merging works. Then, at the end, I will delve into a few examples so that you can put these standards to use!
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