Magento

Magento is an online store software and was first released in version 1.0 on 31 March 2008 as an open -source e- commerce platform. Is produced by the same company Magento Magento (formerly Varien ) using the Zend Framework. Magento is used by 0.9 % of all websites, making it the most widely used software online shop.

The Magento Inc. since 6 June 2011, a 100 - % subsidiary of eBay and is part of the X.commerce business unit. The company has 375 employees worldwide by its own account.

Magento is under the Open Software License version 3.0.

• 2.1 Site Management
• 2.2 Processing of orders
• 2.3 Magento Connect

• 3.1 Version History
• 3.2 Magento 2.0
• 3.3 editions
• 3.4 Difference between Community and Enterprise Edition
• 3.5 Magento Go
• 3.6 Mage

• 4.1 Market Ready Germany
• 4.2 German Setup
• 4.3 Magento DE

Technology

Magento is based on PHP 5.2.x and used in the standard MySQL for storing data. As a server, a Linux server (Linux x86, x86 -64 ) is required.

Beside PHP Magento relies on the configuration via XML files. This serves not only to the general configuration of the technical basis, but is also used to configure the interfaces to the display in the back as well as be able to adapt both in the frontend.

Cache backend

Magento is able to deal with different cache backends. Essentially, these are:

• File
• SQLite
• Memcached
• APC
• XCache
• ZendPlatform
• TwoLevels

In addition, other backends such as Redis, MongoDB or own developments can be used. As an external cache backend can be resorted to Varnish.

Features and capabilities

Site Management

Magento provides the ability to manage multiple stores with independent catalogs and customer bases to different domains. In addition, Magento can be multitenant furnished. That is, even in the B2B environment, it is possible to offer a particular product range to a customer and to show another customer to another range. The management takes place here at three levels:

Processing of orders

In Magento, similarly as in a commodity economy, Orders are managed. An order can be completely created in the backend of Magento. Typically, but it is generated by the customer on the front end, in which he adds products to the cart at the box office its billing and shipping address inputs, the selected payment and shipping method and click on " Buy " clicked. For online payments, the customer is often passed on "Buy" after the jump to a page where he is expected to complete the payment. The shop owner is able to process an order, in which he (partial) bills (partial) delivery notes and (partial ) creates credits, whereby the order according to a fixed scheme the state, and thus the status changes. While ordering states are firmly anchored in Magento, multiple status codes are assigned to one or a state. By manually setting the status of the progress of the processing of an order can be communicated externally and internally fine.

Magento Connect

Magento Connect is a marketplace for extensions to the standard functionality.

The end of 2009 there were about 1500 Extensions, partly charged, from different areas (administration, payment, shipping modules, templates, catalog extension ) are available.

History

Work on Magento began in January 2007. Seven months later, on 31 August 2007, the first public beta version was released.

The German open source magazine T3N reported on Magento in the December 2007 edition.

In March 2008, Magento was at the conference: presented and voted by visitors to the favorites " Under the Radar The Business of Web Apps conference".

Version History

• Magento 1.0 released on 31 March 2008
• Magento 1.1 released on 25 July 2008
• Magento 1.2 released December 30, 2008
• Magento 1.3 released on 30 March 2009
• Magento 1.4 released on 12 February 2010
• Magento 1.5 released on 8 February 2011
• Magento 1.6 released 18 August 2011
• Magento 1.6.1 released 19 October 2011
• Magento 1.6.2 released on January 11, 2012
• Magento 1.7.0 released on April 24, 2012
• Magento 1.7.0.1 released 20 June 2012
• Magento 1.7.0.2 released on July 5, 2012
• Magento 1.8.0.0 released on September 25, 2013
• Magento 1.8.1.0 released on 11 December 2013

Magento 2.0

The release of Magento 2.0 has been postponed several times and is not fixed yet even today.

Magento 2.0 can be downloaded as a preview version for developers on GitHub. She has a completely redesigned backend and a visual layout editor, can be moved with the mouse into different areas in the blocks.

The extensions for Magento 1.x are not compatible with Magento 2.0 without adjustment. Magento 2.0 is significantly better from the official documentation for users and developers offer than the previous versions.

Editions

Currently, the following editions are available:

• Enterprise Edition ( Cost: from $ 15,550 per year with Gold Level Support or from $ 49,990 per year with Platinum Level Support 24x7 )
• Magento Go is a hosted solution from Magento (cost 15-125 USD per month).
• Community Edition ( free, open source OSL 3.0 license without support)

Presented in the 2010 Professional Edition was discontinued on 1 February 2012. The Professional Edition customers were offered a discount on the purchase of a perpetual license or upgrade to the Enterprise Edition.

Difference between Community and Enterprise Edition

Both versions use the same Magento Magento Core, for this reason, the structure of the shop software in two versions are identical, including the backend and frontend is the same in both versions. There are differences especially in ensuring support and integrated functions. For an enterprise user will receive direct support from a Magento Magento Inc., and preferred handling of error messages. Magento makes no warranty or guarantee for the Community Edition. The Enterprise version, because this assumes Magento a warranty for the functionality of the shopping cart software. In addition, Magento offers exclusive functions that are reserved exclusively for the Enterprise.

Magento Go

Under the name of Magento Go, a variant of the software was introduced in March 2011, in which the developer the operation and maintenance of the entire system take over (SaaS). This is particularly suitable for users who shy away from the effort or the cost of your own server and do not want to worry about the safety of Magento. Magento Go is available for a monthly rental in several size classes.

Mage

On 11 May 2012, the Magento community published under the name Mage a Fork Community Edition to version 1.7 on github. With this step, they demonstrated their distaste for the increasing commercialization of the project through eBay.

Magento in the German market

To prepare Magento for the German market, there are currently two different modules, which take over the respective roles with different approaches, as well as a pre-configured package called " Magento DE ".

Market Ready Germany

Trusted Shops and symmetrics CGI have jointly developed a module for Magento adds for Germany required functionalities of a B2C shops and prepared for certification by Trusted Shops.

German Setup

In contrast to the Market Ready Germany the German setup module is a pure open source product of the German Magento community. It dispensed with, among others, to the automatic installing some payment modules from third party suppliers. At best, it makes recommendations for further matching modules. This makes it much slimmer and more stable. In addition, it can be uninstalled without serious consequences.

German setup is complete, looked at Github under the name " FireGento ", a free association of some Magento agencies and freelance developers.

Magento DE

Magento DE was developed on behalf of Netresearch by members of the Magento community under the auspices of integer_net. In Magento DE is a complete, pre-configured for German dealer version of the Community Edition. In a single Magento installation procedure and all necessary extensions for the German market to be established.

Terms of Use

Magento is a registered trademark. Independent providers who offer Magento services, use the abbreviation " mage " or " like " in their domain name.

Awards

Magento has won at the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards the Best New Open Source Project 2008 Award.