Branko Ajzele - Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide: Build better stores by extending Magento

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Branko Ajzele is a respected and highly accomplished software developer, book author, solution specialist, consultant, and team leader. He currently works for Interactive Web Solutions Ltd (iWeb), where he holds the role of senior developer and is the director of iWeb's Croatia office.

Branko holds several respected IT certifications, including Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Magento Certified Developer, Magento Certified Developer Plus, Magento Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer, to mention just a few.

He was crowned the e-commerce Developer of the Year by the Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in e-commerce development.

Andrew "Pembo" Pemberton is a Certified Magento Developer with over 20 years' experience building websites. He is based in Stoke-on-Trent, UK and started building websites from the young age of 13. He has a degree in computer science from Staffordshire University.

Andrew is now the development director at iWeb (based in Stafford, UK), which, for over 20 years, has created industry-leading websites and now specializes in large scale Magento solutions and PIM-based projects for a wide range of clients.

Outside of his digital life, Andrew enjoys spending time with his family of pets, traveling with his wife, and being an avid gamer.

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Magento is a popular open source e-commerce platform written in PHP. It is used primarily for building web shops, though it can easily be used for other types of websites as well. With the help of its powerful web API, we can build robust solutions that satisfy modern-day application requirements.

By the end of this book, the reader should be familiar with configuration files, models, collections, blocks, controllers, events, observers, plugins, UI components and other building elements of Magento.

This book is intended for PHP developers getting started with Magento v2.x development. Though compact in terms of page numbers, the book covers a wide range of functionality, allowing the reader to master day-to-day Magento skills in a clear and concise way. No previous Magento knowledge is required.

, Understanding the Magento Architecture, takes a look at some of the key Magento components. We will go through plugins and event observers and learn how they provide a powerful way of extending Magento, either by changing the behavior of existing functions or by running some follow-up code in response to certain events.

, Working with Entities, demonstrates how to differentiate between the three types of Magento models: non-persistable, persistable simple, and persistable EAV. We will take a look at the six different setup scripts and how they allow us a great deal of flexibility for schema and data management.

, Understanding Web API, shows the reader how to differentiate between types of web API users, authentication, and methods it provides. We will also take a look at how easy it is to create our own APIs with just a few lines of XML. We will see how the route definition allows for easy binding between what arrives via HTTP requests and what is executed in code, respecting the access list permissions in the process.