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Part 6 - Setup Resources

February 24, 2011 | in Magento Step by Step

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On any fast paced software development project, the task of keeping the development and production databases in sync become a sticky wicket. Magento offers a system to create versioned resource migration scripts that can help your team deal with this often contentious part of the development process.

In the ORM article we created a model for a weblog post. At the time, we ran our CREATE TABLE statements directly against the database. This time, we'll create a Setup Resource for our module that will create the table for us. We'll also create an upgrade script for our module that will update an already installed module. The steps we'll need to take are

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Part 2 - The Config

February 20, 2011 | in Magento Step by Step

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The config is the beating heart of the Magento System. It describes, in whole, almost any module, model, class, template, etc. than you'll need to access. It's a level of abstraction that most PHP developers aren't used to working with, and while it adds development time in the form of confusion and head scratching, it also allows you an unprecedented amount of flexibility as far as overriding default system behaviors go.

To start with, we're going to create a Magento module that will let us view the system config in our web browser. Follow along by copying and pasting the code below, it's worth going through on your own as a way to start getting comfortable with things you'll be doing while working with Magento, as well as learning key terminology.

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