Magento FAQ’s

Magento uses MySQL for database and PHP as a web server language.

Mangento 2 uses PHP 7.0.2 up to 7.0.10. PHP 7.0.5 is an exception since it has an issue that upsets the Magento code compiler. Versions 5.6x can also work. For MySQL, it uses version 5.6 or 5.7.

Four different versions of Magento are available, they are :

• Magento Enterprise Edition
• Magento Community Edition
• Magento Professional Edition
• Magento .go Edition

MultiChannel retailing :
MultiChannel means providing different platform like web, mobile, etc. to facilitate the sale of products/item
Omni Channel Retailing :
Omni-Channel is a step above MultiChannel. Omni-Channel dictates that we should provide same brand experience irrespective of channel/medium customer choose

In Magento 6 standard product types exists, they are :

• Configurable
• Simple
• Grouped
• Bundle
• Virtual
• Downloadable

Magento MVC architecture supports six types of items – simple, bundled, grouped, downloadable, configurable, and virtual.

Magento is supported by PHP, comparatively to other e-commerce solutions, Magento might be slow in performance
It becomes a complex system if it is not using object-oriented programming
Magento requires much space and memory

• The requirements for installing Magento 2 are:-
• You’re not on shared hosting and have your own Magento server.
• Your OS is either Ubuntu or CentOS.
• Everything is on one host (web server, database)
• Install via composer create-project.
• You’re installing to the magento2 subdirectory under your web server’s docroot (path: /var/www/html/magento)

Magento uses MySQL for database and PHP as a web server scripting language. Specifically, it uses MySQL 5.6 (Percona or Oracle), and PHP 5.4 and 5.5. This technology makes up the core of Magento and is what gives the software its functionality.

Pay is basically sets the invoice state is ‘paid’, this works for both when payment is online or offline.

Magento use PHP as a web server scripting language and MySQL for database.

The major difference between Magento 1 and Magento 2 is that Magento 2 is faster, SEO friendly, and more user friendly than Magento 1. Magento 2 supports the latest PHP and that improves the overall speed of the site.

It can take more orders per hour and page loads faster than Magento 1. In addition to cleaner coding and user-friendly dashboard, Magento 2 also offers meta tags functions for better SEO. They were missing in the Magento 1.

Capture: This is when actual payment processing happens online, and the capture() method in our payment method is called. After capture, pay() is called.

Magento uses PHP as a scripting language and MySQL for the database. Database: MySQL 5.6 (Oracle or Percona). PHP version: PHP 5.4, PHP 5.5 or above.

Magento 2 requires the web servers :
Apache 2.4
Nginx 1 and above

From the client Magento account, you can do following things -

• Update your billing address
• Add a credit card
• View your billing history
• Add a PayPal account
• Produce a print ready receipt

Magento has a total of 12 design patterns. These patterns include:

• Factory Pattern
• Singleton Pattern
• Model View Controller Pattern
• Front Controller Pattern
• Registry Pattern
• Prototype Pattern
• Iterator Pattern
• Object Pool Pattern
• Service Locator Pattern
• Lazy Loading Pattern
• Observer Pattern
• Module Pattern

Static blocks are the ones in which information doesn’t change. These blocks can be added anywhere on any page throughout the Magento store. For example, a block containing Google maps marking your office’s physical location would be a static block.

If you make a new EAV module, then six tables will be created. These tables include:
module_datetime, module, module_decimal, module_int, module_text, and module_varchar.

The uses of Magento are –

• Magento is open source E-commerce software.
• It is scalable and offers small companies to build business.
• It provides the searching and sorting of products in several ways.
• Easily integrates with many of the third-party sites which are needed to run effective E-commerce website.
• Using this, customer can order or purchase number of products. There are no limits on number of purchasing products.

codePool is a tag which you have to specify when registering new module in app/etc/modules/Company_Module.xml
There are 3 codePools in Magento: core, community and local, which are resided at app/code/ directory.
Core codePool is used by Magento core team, Community is generally used by 3rd party extensions and Local codePool should be used for in-hour module development and overriding of core and community modules for custom requirement.
So in short, codePool helps Magento to locate module inside app/code/ for processing.