The Three Steps to Understand Magento

The complexities of Magento cannot be untangled all at once. There are so many moving parts that depend on one another. Often, these are interrelated in their own special way. For example, there are over 16,000 files in the latest version of Magento community. When the homepage loads, Magento uses more than 200 different files. Wow!

Therefore, to untangle this complex knot, one needs to understand the architecture and the key concepts behind it. This is the key to unraveling Magento! MageMagenified.com contains three sets of tutorials (pictured below) that will enable you to understand the framework.

26 out of the 31 tutorials contain code samples in the form of extensions that can be installed on your devleopment environment. In these pre-built samples, you are provided instructions on how to complete tasks and understand concepts related to the current topic. What hasn’t been explained yet is done for you. And, you’ll have a cool working codesample at the end of each tutorial! In this way, you’ll be able to untangle the complexities of the Magento framework.

How to Solve the Maze Called Magento!

knight on horse by castle Once upon a time, Alexander "The Great" traveled to the far away city of Gordian to try his hand at a challenge that no one had ever solved. Inside the city, there was a knot that was so twisted and confusing that it had never been untied. The legend of the day was that whoever untied the knot would rule all of Asia. So, Alexander stepped up to the challenge. He looked at the knot, gave it some thought, unsheathed his sworded, and delivered a fatal blow or two. Boom! Bam! Blamo! This loosened it, as you might imagine, allowing him to untie the knot.

Magento is just like the Gordian Knot. How do you know where the knot begins? There are so many moving parts! And, sometimes as developers we run into an issue only to find that we need to answer a few more equally if not more challening questions about the framework to get to the bottom of the original issue.

So, how do you solve the maze of problems Magento puts before you? The truth is not out there. It is HERE! The three steps outlined above explain how these tutorials untie the Gordian knot called Magento!

Magento Bootcamp

Almost all of the 15 tutorials below take a step-by-step approach to explaining these concepts. These tutorials are filled with coding exercises. They also use pictures with great frequency, which helps to reinforce the concepts that are covered. These tutorials provide you with the practical understanding of many important skills that are needed on an everyday basis as a Magento developer.