The Definitive Guide to Magento

by Adam McCombs, Robert Banh

Overview

This book takes a comprehensive look at Magento, a robust and flexible e-commerce platform built on the Zend framework. With more than 750,000 downloads, Magento is the fastest growing open source e-commerce solution. This book walks you through all of the steps necessary to build a fully functional Magento-based web site. It also includes information on managing products, customers, and orders. This book is directed at web site designers and developers, but will also be extremely useful for business owners who have web sites built on the Magento platform.

• Introduces you to Magento, the fastest-growing open-source e-commerce platform
• Demonstrates how to configure and use Magento
• Covers how to customize Magento and develop extensions for the Magento platform

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430272298
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/17/2009
Series:	Expert's Voice in Open Source
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Adam McCombs is a website designer and a front end developer with more than seven years of experience. He specializes in adapting open source frameworks such as Magento, Wordpress, Joomla!, and Drupal into functional custom website solutions for clients of small and medium-sized businesses. His work and blog can be found at www.mccombs.me.

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Magento.- to Magento.- Installing Magento.- The Public Interface Walk-through.- The Administration Interface Walk-through.- Working with Products.- Working with Customers.- Advanced Magento Development.- Working with Orders.- Configuring Magento.- Customizing Magento’s Appearance.- Magento Extensions.- API.- Tips and Tricks.