Zend and Magento

Zend Framework

Zend framework is an open source, object oriented web application framework which provides an advanced Model-View-Controller(MVC) implementation to the application. It is also known as component based library. Zend is a business partner of IBM.

What makes the Zend Framework one of the premier frameworks used by PHP developers is that it provides clean, stable code, complete with intellectual property rights. It was first founded in 1999 by two Israel programmer Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski.

Zend Course Details

• Module 1:
  • What is Zend Framework?
  • Zend Framework Components
  • Model-View-Controller
• Module 2:
  • System Requirements
  • Installation
  • Setting up Zend Tool
  • Creating a Project
  • The Bootstrap File
  • URLs, Controllers, and Actions
  • Adding Controllers and Actions
  • Testing the Application
  • Using Zend Studio for Eclipse
• Module 3:
  • The Front Controller
  • Defining your own Action Controllers
  • Passing Data from the Controller to the View
  • Escaping the Output
  • Rendering View Scripts
  • Fowarding vs Redirection
• Module 4:
  • Introduction to View Scripts
  • Zend_View
  • Passing Data from the Controller to the View Script
  • Escaping Output
  • Rendering a View Script
  • Forwarding the Request
  • Redirecting to Another URL
  • Forward vs Redirect
• Module 5:
  • Zend_Application
  • Zend_Config
  • Zend_Registry
  • Zend_Loader
  • Zend_Session
• Module 6:
  • Creating a Zend Form
  • Getting From Data
  • Validating and Filtering Form Data
  • Styling Forms
• Module 7:
  • Zend_Db
  • Database Adapaters
  • Acquiring the Database Adapter
  • Creating a Connection
  • Querying the Database
  • Inserting Data
  • Updating Data
  • Deleting Data
  • Closing Connection
  • Table Data Gateway
  • Zend_Db_Table
  • Zend_Db_Table_Row
  • Zend_Db_Rowset
• Module 8:
  • The ErrorHandler Plugin
  • The Default Error Controller and View Script
  • Creating Your Own Error Handler Plugin
• Module 9:
  • Layout templates
  • Setting Up Zend_Layout
  • Using View Helpers
  • Changing and Disabling Layouts
  • Zend_Layout Quickstart

• Duration: 25 Hours
• Zend Course Curriculum
• Upcoming Demo

Magento

Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It comes with a variety of tools, necessarily for building a successful on-line shop. Magento offers a lot of built-in capabilities, such as promo pricing and coupon codes, detailed statistics, and SEO options. When Magento was released in 2008, it transformed the e-commerce platform market. In a period of 18 months, Magento surpassed one million downloads and now records billions of dollars of transactions worldwide by tens of thousands of merchants. Purchased by eBay in early 2011, it continues to be the fastest growing e-commerce platform in the world. Magento is written in PHP and utilises the Zend Framework (which is MVC based) and uses an EAV-based MySQL database. The system is highly modular, secure and Magento's architecture handles module database schema updates automatically

• Module 1:
  • Ecommerce Concept and Introduction to Magento
  • What is e-commerce?
• Module 2:
  • Introduction of Magento
  • What is Magento ?
  • How to install Magento
  • Front end over view
  • Backend Over view
• Module 3:
  • In depth knowledge of magento back end and front end features
  • Catalog Concept, Category Creation
  • Different types of product in Magento
  • Category – product configuration
  • How to create tax rules
  • Shopping cart price rules, Product price rules
  • Import/export
  • Configuration like country set, currency set, locale set, url set etc.
  • Static blocks, Cms pages
  • Multiple Website, store, store view concept
• Module 4:
  • Magneto design Terminologies
  • Website and stores, Interface, themes and block
  • Working with Magento themes
  • Building your theme and Intro to Layout
• Module 5:
  • Concept of MVC and Database modeling
  • Magento Architecture Model, View, Controller concept
  • Database structure
  • Concept of Framework
  • Magento Core modules overview
  • Different modules and there uses e.g. Catalog, Checkout, Sales etc.
  • Magento Architecture
  • Code pools, Module packages, Controller, model, block
  • Helpers concept. Magento request cycle. Front controller, Routers and actions
• Module 6:
  • Database Design
  • Resource and database connection
  • EAV model
  • Entities and Entity Attributes
  • Collections
  • Why need custom module
  • Custom module creation and integration
• Module 7:
  • Building a Custom module (Brand Add)
  • Featured Product Module
• Module 8:
  • Building new Payment gateway module
  • Banner Management module
• Module 9:
  • Controller,Model,Block override using custom module
  • Ajax add to cart module
• Module 10:
  • Real Life Projects

• Duration: 25 Hours
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• Upcoming Demo