1) Mention what is Magento?
Magento is an e-commerce platform created on open source
technology, which provides online merchants with an exceptional flexibility and
control over the content, look and functionality of their e-commerce store.
2) Mention what is the architecture of Magento? What are the different versions of Magento?
Magento architecture is a typical PHP MVC (Model-View-Controller)application, where all the Controllers will be in one folder and all theModels in another, etc. Based on their functionality files are
grouped together, which are referred as modules in Magento.
Different version of Magento includes
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Magento Enterprise
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Magento .go
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Magento Community
3) Mention what technology does Magento use?
Magento use PHP as a web server scripting language and MySQL for
database.
4) Mention what is the difference between Mage::getModel() and Mage::getSingletone() in Magento?
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Mage::getModel(): It always creates a new object
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Mage:
:getSingleton(): It always look for an
existing object and if not then creates a new object
5) Mention what are the basic features of Magento?
Basic features of Magento includes
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Reporting and
Analytics
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Product and Catalog
Browsing
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Customer Accounts
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Order Management
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Payment
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Site Management
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Shipping
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Search engine
optimization
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Marketing promotions
and tools
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Checkout
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International Support
6) Mention what is the limitation of Magento?
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Magento is supported
by PHP, comparatively to other e-commerce solutions, Magento might be slow in
performance
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It becomes a complex
system if it is not using object-oriented programming
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Magento requires much
space and memory
7) Explain how you can enhance the Magento performance?
To enhance the Magento performance
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Disable the Magento
log
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Combine external
CSS/JS into one file
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Disable any unused
modules
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MySQL Query Caching
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Enable Magento caching
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Enable Gzip
compression
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Optimize your image
8) Explain how you can show a certain number of products for guests in Magento?
In the toolbar block you will see
app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List/Toolbar.php
there is a method:
Public function setCollection($collection);
Inside there is a piece of code:
$limit= (int)$this->get Limit();
If ($limit) {
$this ->_collection->setPageSize($limit);
}
You have to change variable $limit; you should override that
block in the local pool, not change directly in the core. In order to see
whether the customer is a guest, you can use this code
Mage:: getSingleton(‘customer/session’) -> isLoggedIn()
9) Mention what all billing information can be managed through Magento?
From the client Magento account, you can do following things
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Update your billing
address
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Add a credit card
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View your billing
history
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Add a PayPal account
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Produce a print ready
receipt
10) Explain how you can change Magento Core API settings?
To change Magento Core API settings, you have to
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Go to Admin menu,
choose System ->
Configuration
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Select Magento Core
API on the left side of the Configuration
Panel, under Services
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Tap on to expand the General Settings section and you can
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Type the name of the Default Response Charset that you want to use
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Determine the Client Session Timeout in seconds
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Click the Save Config button when complete
11) Explain how Magento can be made more secure for the client?
Best practices for Magento includes
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Using a strong
password and changing them at regular interval
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Disable remote access
to Magento Connect Manager
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Disable Downloader on
production sites
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Restrict access to
safe IP addresses
12) Mention what is the benefit of applying Connect Patches in Magento?
In Magento, applying connect patch
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It enables easy
installation of packages with installation; it overwrites any existing
translations for the same time
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For enhancing
security, by default Magento Connect uses HTTP to download extensions instead of
FTP
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With a dash character
in the name, extension developers can now create extensions
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Magento administrators
will be informed now who tries to install an extension with insufficient file
system privileges
13) Explain how you can move Magento to another Directory?
To move Magento to other Directory you have to follow the
following steps.
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Suppose you have
Magento installed in the following location
http://www.domain.com/store/
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On visiting your site,
you want Magento to be the first thing to come up
http://www.domain.com
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Let assume you have a
directory structure like this
/home/username/public_html/
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Which means Magento
would be installed here
/home/username/public_html/store/
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Login to the backend
of the Magento first and go to
System -> Configuration -> Web
Update the Secure and Unsecure URL for your store and then link
to your site via SSH and then go to the directory, where you will be shifting
Magento
cd public_html/
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Now, transfer all the
files from the store directory to the directory you are in
mv store/* store/.htaccess
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Delete the cache data
rm –vf var/cache/
Now Magento is moved to another directory.
14) Explain how you can reset Magento file & Directory permissions?
You can reset Magento file & Directory to their default and
secure permissions, by following commands from the directory where Magento is
installed
find . –type f –exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . –type d –exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod +x mage
15) Explain how you can configure Magento to work with another domain?
To
do that, in the admin area, you have to change the Magento Base URL option. To
do this, visit to your Magento admin area> System > Configuration and
click Web on the left menu. Select the Unsecure option after that edit the base URL field to change the URL that will
be used for normal (HTTP) connections.
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