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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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There are many different attribute settings. Customers and products can have different ones. What do ALL of these mean? what do all of these do? So, if you are caught in a place where you need to know what settings like apply_to, Is_html_allowed_on_front, filterable, multiline_count, etc does. Then, this tutorial explains these and provides many pictures of exactly what these settings do. These are good to know because what if you want your attribute to appear in the search, the layered navigation, or appear as a criterea for discounts. These advanced settings allow you to do this and much more.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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When you look at a layout XML file, you might be saying what does all of this do!! Well the layout XML is the thread that holds all of Magento together. There are over 40 layout xml files. This tutorial focuses on those concepts that are at core of what the layout XML is and does. At the end, this tutorial walks through a code sample of how to create a block to reinforce the and explain with clarity the concepts that have been discussed.
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Understanding where a file is located and why can seem confusing. Magento 1.9.1.* has over 16,000 files. When you want to edit a page, which file do you change? This tutorial explains those concepts that will help you navigate through the rough and tumble aspects of Magento themes.
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This tuorial focuses on thoroughly explaining the key concepts behind Magento themes
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