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Magento 1.8 Development Cookbook
Magento 1.8 Development Cookbook
274 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
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May 27, 2014
An excellent book that teaches you Magento while showing you how to do things like build an e-commerce store, set up themes, work around performance issues (which Magento can really struggle with) among many others commonly needed tasks.
The book starts out with an exploration of what Magento can offers in an easy way to understand. Even if you absolutely know nothing about either Magento or E-commerce platforms, this book can guide you along the way.
The book starts out with an exploration of what Magento can offers in an easy way to understand. Even if you absolutely know nothing about either Magento or E-commerce platforms, this book can guide you along the way.
May 22, 2014
I have a number of books (both digital and hard copy) in my Magento library and hands down this book has been able to include not only everything from all of them, but went quite a few steps further to elaborate with fantastic detail using easy to understand language.
Anyone that has worked with Magento (community version) knows the documentation that is provided on their site is highly fragmented with mixed information that includes very little information on the new version and hundreds of pages on deprecated versions which in all but a few cases are not even posted so you follow the instructions only to find out it does not work because it was deprecated or it is for their paid support versions. Bottom line is the documentation, wiki and forum are there and will eventually give you the answers you need (most of the time) but wasting your time is a cost none of us have time for!
This book is geared for developers but I encourage anyone that is using Magento to include this resource in your library. To build a truly successful website you have to know how it works at the core and this book has everything you need to know to build a Magneto store and as a bonus it will help you create what you need so that it is successful.
5 stars is not enough to show how much I appreciate this book!
Anyone that has worked with Magento (community version) knows the documentation that is provided on their site is highly fragmented with mixed information that includes very little information on the new version and hundreds of pages on deprecated versions which in all but a few cases are not even posted so you follow the instructions only to find out it does not work because it was deprecated or it is for their paid support versions. Bottom line is the documentation, wiki and forum are there and will eventually give you the answers you need (most of the time) but wasting your time is a cost none of us have time for!
This book is geared for developers but I encourage anyone that is using Magento to include this resource in your library. To build a truly successful website you have to know how it works at the core and this book has everything you need to know to build a Magneto store and as a bonus it will help you create what you need so that it is successful.
5 stars is not enough to show how much I appreciate this book!
February 27, 2014
I would be interested in why others have given this bad reviews. I found it near perfect for what it claims to be. Maybe could have been even longer? But otherwise.
As long as you have the basic skills (PHP/MySQL/Magento user) then this cookbook is what other Magento titles have failed to be. Fully comprehensive! Starting with a succinct guide to set up a development environment which goes beyond the bare minimum you would get in your average online tutorial. And this is a pattern repeated throughout almost all the recipes, out of the 30 or so I have read so far, without exception. The authors give more than the bare minimum. Which is of course what you would expect in a book of this price but so often you don't get it.
As long as you have the basic skills (PHP/MySQL/Magento user) then this cookbook is what other Magento titles have failed to be. Fully comprehensive! Starting with a succinct guide to set up a development environment which goes beyond the bare minimum you would get in your average online tutorial. And this is a pattern repeated throughout almost all the recipes, out of the 30 or so I have read so far, without exception. The authors give more than the bare minimum. Which is of course what you would expect in a book of this price but so often you don't get it.
May 5, 2014
The team at Packt Publishing have released another great book on the Magento platform. Check out http://bit.ly/1feMySA for a view of the Magento 1.8 Development Cookbook.
The book is following the Packt Publishing format which is well suited for prescriptive learning. Good examples that you can put to use immediately.
Many of the topics were only shown as an example and didn't dive too deep, I would have preferred a bit more in some areas, but everything about Magento seems to have so many layers... you need to start somewhere :)
Bart Delvaux and Nurul Ferdous have put together a good guide to take you beyond the basics of Magento.
The book is following the Packt Publishing format which is well suited for prescriptive learning. Good examples that you can put to use immediately.
Many of the topics were only shown as an example and didn't dive too deep, I would have preferred a bit more in some areas, but everything about Magento seems to have so many layers... you need to start somewhere :)
Bart Delvaux and Nurul Ferdous have put together a good guide to take you beyond the basics of Magento.
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