Magento: Sharpen your swords and shine your shields – we’re going in!
In the vast depths of magento it is all too easy to become trapped and helpless, cowering in a file that is nested 10 folders deep and having no idea where you are, what your doing or what the hell all these strange functions mean…
For a non-developer the bowels of magento are akin to the mythical labyrinths of Crete. Where a wrong turn could mean certain death. In this case the face of such a fate looks a little like this…
This “Magento Minotaur” is the embodiment of a developers worst fears – that of getting lost within the maze-like hierarchy of the magento system files.Why would you need to journey into the bowels of magento you ask? Well for most e-commerce applications you will, at one point or another, be required to add, edit or even delete source code to create new functions modify existing ones or, at the very least, know which functions to call back in order to make magento do the things that it was created to do.
It is for this second reason that I write this post for you now. We believe that you, like us at one point, chose to take up arms and venture forth on a Magento Adventure. Knowing full well that the path would be fraught with danger at every twist and turn. Every “foreach” a hydra that must be slain. Every “If Statement” a distracting Siren just waiting to plunge you and your site into the rocky shores of error codes and almost certain death…
Well fear not, for we at Creare are going to arm you against these mythical magento monsters but no! Not with winged sandals, sharp swords or shiny shields! Not even with that famous ball of golden twine…
Our talented and resourceful staff here at Creare have found a handy website! A website that will make the journey into the treacherous depths of magento easier and much more fruitful.
The website is named thus… http://snippi.net/
Granted, not the most mythical name that has graced this page, but a name nonetheless.
Snippi.net holds within it’s hallowed pages “Snippets” of very useful magento functions. Functions that actually do things. Whether you want to call back the name of a category or know how on earth a customer somehow becomes “logged in”. The facts are all there, ready to be learned. And with the knowledge you will gain, you yourself will walk through those dark, winding and perpetually perilous dungeons of magento with no fear, no fear at all….
