What is Magento? Learn about Magento platform
Learn about Magento platform
What is Magento?
This is an e-commerce platform written in PHP programming language (based on Zend Framework platform) and MySQL database. Magento works under the EAV (entity - attribute - value) model and has a modular architecture.
Simply put, Magento is open source software to build e-commerce websites with necessary functions.
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This source code e-commerce platform allows businesses to create online stores, accept payments, and manage products. There are also paid solutions that come with extra features, cloud storage, and support.
Magento currently has 2 versions:
Community Edition (CE): free version
Enterprise edition (EE): paid version.
Magento's development history
On August 31, 2007, the company Varien - California, USA released the beta version of Magento.
May 30, 2008, release Magento 1 version is officially released.
May 30, 2010, released Magento mobile version to help users buy goods through the app instead of the website.
In June 2011, eBay announced that it owned 100% of the investment capital for Magento.
3/11/2015, Magento separated from eBay. The Permira Fund invested Magento to become an independent company.
November 17, 2015, Magento 2.0 version was released creating an important historical milestone for e-commerce platforms: in 2016, 29.8% of e-commerce websites were built from Magento ( According to Aheadworks).
2018, Adobe acquired the Magento platform.
Magento is used a lot in developed countries, especially the US, UK and Australia. Currently, there are quite a few large e-commerce websites in Vietnam such as PNJ Shopping, Trung Nguyen.. developed by DBIZ company, Lotte .. using Magento.
What is the basic structure of Magento like?
A basic Magento module will have the following structure:
Part 1: Code. This is the part that will define the actions that the modules will interact with the database.
Part 2: Templates. This is the layout of the module's interface based on the code.
Inside:
Block is the place used to load data, adjust data from the database before displaying the data to the template.
Controller will receive the request from the user (from http) and then pass the request to the handler classes.
Etc includes xml files used to configure the module. Each module will have different xml files.
Helper is a place to store helper classes, "tools" that make the programming process easier.
The model contains statements that directly query the database.
SQL includes SQL statements to create tables, interact with data changes, etc.
Features of Magento
Basic Features
Integrating rich images, offering many evaluation options, favorite product categories, inventory management, .... Merchandise management support.
Create accounts, control account status, transaction history, etc. to support user management.
Allows searching and selecting products by category quickly, ... supports category management.
Provide various payment methods and modules such as: Paypal, ePay, credit cards, etc. to support payment.
Various forms of customer contact, comprehensive tracking, customer service support.
Multi-language support, allowing to trade many different currencies.
Support search on SiteMap.
Allows to choose from a variety of promotional and marketing tools (coupons, vouchers, etc.)
Ability to integrate with Google Analytics to analyze activities and provide many accurate results reports.
Magento's outstanding features
Store, share information about items, provide product lists for different users, … with Wishlists.
Help you view many different points of sale and warehouse with Multi store/Mall feature.
Compare, compare products with Compare products.
Support for different sales and marketing campaigns with CMS system for static pages.
Sort by package, group, ... based on the unique attributes of each product with Bundle/Grouped/Digital products and more.
Automatically optimize for search engines, built-in SEO with Good SEO performance.
In particular, the Magento platform also allows data synchronization between your existing software and a completely new website.
Frequently asked questions about Magento
Should I choose Magento or WooCommerce?
Both Magento and WooCommerce are full-featured e-commerce platforms that you can use to build any type of online store. However, this depends on your individual costs and skills.
WooCommerce has the advantage of a large user base and market share because it works on WordPress, the world's most popular website builder. WordPress users will feel comfortable and familiar when working on WooCommerce. The ease of use and the cost of building and operating an e-commerce store on the scale of WooCommerce surpasses that of Magento.
Therefore, if you want an easy-to-use, cost-effective, and extensible e-commerce platform, then WooCommerce is the perfect choice.
Meanwhile, Magento is suitable for business-level businesses with their own development teams or businesses that can hire a development team.
What is Magento programming?
A Magento developer will:
Develop, integrate or offer theme customizations.
Provide core customizations to help Magento effectively apply to different business models in reality.
Develop new extensions.
Create or import categories and products on the website.
Update to the latest versions of Magento.
Performance tuning.
What skills does a Magento developer need?
The skills required of a Magento developer are:
Mastering PHP
Have experience in Modular Development
Familiar with MVC architecture
Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming
Mastering the MySQL Database
Master and use XML well to be able to configure modules in Magento
Knowledge of search engines
What kind of storage modules does Magento Connect have?
There are 3 types of modules hosted on Magento Connect:
Core Modules
Community Modules
Commercial Modules (provide pricing information and external links)
How to fix the error of resizing GIF images?
Because GIF images do not support Alpha, when Magento resizes GIF files, a black background may appear. This error usually occurs on Magento 2.3.2.
Edit:
app/code/YourVendor/YourModule/etc/di.xml
app/code/YourVendor/YourModule/Image/Adapter/Gd2.php
namespace YourVendor\YourModule\Image\Adapter;
class Gd2 extends \Magento\Framework\Image\Adapter\Gd2
{
public function checkAlpha($fileName)
{
$fileType = $this->getImageType();
if (in_array($fileType, [IMAGETYPE_GIF])) {
return false;
}
return (ord(file_get_contents($fileName, false, null, 25, 1)) & 6 & 4) == 4;
}
}
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