1. Magento Basics part 2 Modules & Themes Stenik Group Ltd. Magento
Martin Grozdanov
Software University
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2. Table of Contents Using PHP7 With Magento Magento & Modules
Installing modules – Cons
Magento & Composer
Themes
Modules’ Basic Components
Modules’ Basic File Architecture
Themes’ Basic File Architecture
Q&A 2
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3. sli.do # softuni-magento
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4. Using PHP7 With Magento? Patch it. 4

5. Magento & Modules Magento is module based framework
Most of Magento’s core modules are dependent of each other.
Naming convention
<Namespace>_<Module>
Mage_Customer
Mage_Catalog
Every module is declared with XML file in app/etc/modules/ 5

6. Installing modules - Cons
Magento Connect Install & Cons
The module cannot be committed using Magento Connect.
The module is hard to be updated from other machines.
Manual Install & Cons
The module is hard to be updated. 6

7. Magento & Composer Installing module with composer {
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"repositories": {
"firegento": {
"type": "composer",
"url": " } },
"require": {
"magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "3.0.*"
"extra": {
"magento-root-dir" : "./",
"magento-deploystrategy": "copy",
"magento-force": "override"
Installing module with composer 7

8. Themes
What are themes?
Themes in Magento are the representative part Magento – HTML & Layout.
Each theme is within package – similar to modules’ namespaces.
Installation
Just like modules – via Magento Connect, Manual, Composer and etc. 8

9. Modules’ Basic Components
Controllers
What to be seen/used.
Models
Things to be seen/used.
Blocks (Views)
How to be seen.
Helpers
The other components’ sidekicks.
config.xml
Configuration
Installers & Updaters 9

10. Modules’ Basic File Architecture
app/etc/modules/<Namespace>_<Module>.xml
app/code/<pool>/<Namespace>/<Module>/
Block
controllers
Helper
Model
etc
sql
... 10

11. Themes’ Basic File Architecture
app/design/frontend/<package>/<theme>
layout
template …
skin/frontend/<package>/<theme>
css
images js 11

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