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External Howto for Magento Structure and Programming? 
 
csimon
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Hi,

first of all, yes i know the Wiki, but is there any real howto which explains the Modular Structure of Magento for Developers?

Magento is great, but it’s hard for new developers to get into the software. I don’t even know how to insert something into my tables in the Database because i can’t find the right resource string and syntax for inserts. Selecting isn’t a problem, but i only got to know how it works by looking at some example codes of other modules.

I would appreciate any kind of tutorial or example, even if it’s not in the Wiki. And yes, i know the “Create module with custom database"-Page at the Wiki and it helped me at my first steps.

 
 
Posted: May 14 2009
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Brent W Peterson
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Here is a down and dirty way to insert

try{
        $write = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write');
        $write->query("INSERT into Customer_Catalog_Request".
                "(CustName, CustAd1, CustAd2, CustCity, CustState, CustZip, CustEmail)".
                " values('".$name."','".$ad1."','".$ad2."','".$city."','".$state."','".$zip."','".$email."')");
    }
    catch(exception $e)
    {
        echo 'An error occured at '.$e;
    }

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Posted: June 1 2009
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Don’t give up, Magento is awesome smile. I’ve been at it for over a year now and I’m loving it. Although, it did take me a while as well to get comfterable with the programming structure though. Especially since I really hadn’t been using any frameworks before. I learned a lot from Magento though wink. And if you need help getting started, this might be a good solution: http://www.phparch.com/c/books/id/9780973862171. I’ve read part of it and It’s pretty helpful.

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Posted: June 2 2009
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