Magento PHP Developer's
Guide
Get started with the exible and powerful e-commerce
framework, Magento
Allan MacGregor
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Magento PHP Developer's Guide
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Credits
Author
Allan MacGregor
Reviewers
Jay El-Kaake
Michael K. Kreitzer
Corey Slavnik
Acquisition Editor
Edward Gordon
Lead Technical Editor
Azharuddin Sheikh
Technical Editors
Devdutt Kulkarni
Kaustubh S. Mayekar
Ankita R. Meshram
Project Coordinator
Anugya Khurana
Proofreader
Jonathan Todd
Indexer
Tejal Soni
Graphics
Aditi Gajjar
Production Coordinator
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Cover Work
Arvindkumar Gupta
About the Author
Allan MacGregor is a Magento Certied Developer Plus with four years of
Magento experience. He also has a certication in Linux System Administration
by IBM.
He started working with Magento as a freelance looking for a better framework to
build e-commerce solutions, and he is now the Magento Lead Developer at Demac
Media (
www.demacmedia.com). He's very passionate about software development
in general. He is constantly working with new technologies and frameworks.
At Demac Media, he has participated in building core solutions for a wide
range of clients; this has given him the experience and knowledge to solve
many Magento challenges.
As part of an internal project at Demac Media, he worked on Triplecheck.io
(
www.triplecheck.io), a unique service for monitoring and auditing the
code health of a Magento store. You can also follow him on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/allanmacgregor.
Writing this book has been a demanding experience but full of
rewards. While writing, I have discovered more of Magento and a
little bit more of myself, both as a person and a developer.
First and foremost, I want to thank my amazing wife for her
unconditional support and understanding while working on
these projects.
To Matthew Bertulli and Dimitri Colomvakos, co-founders of Demac
Media, for all their support.
To my co-workers and friends, Michael Krietzer and Corey Slavnik,
who kindly volunteered their time and effort to review this book.
And special thanks to the whole Demac Media family.
This wouldn't be possible without any of you.
