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Experiences developing on Magento

  • 14-03-2011 9:54am
    #1
    komodosp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭


    Anyone here been doing projects on Magento? Enterprise Edition?

    I have a website based on Wordpress that I'm looking to replicate on a more e-commerce friendly platform and Magento Enterprise Edition seems to be coming out the winner.

    I'm reading it's probably the best e-Commerce based CMS around, but every now and again I come across a damning forum post either in relation to their support and how difficult it is to develop on.

    I'd love to hear any opinions of people on here...


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  • #2
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Are you sure you mean the Enterprise edition? It's USD 13000 per year. Professional edition is 3k/year.

    I'm working on it at the moment - Community edition though.

    I've no idea what the support for the Enterprise edition is like, but based on the cost of it alone, I'd say most of the people complaining on forums etc are Community edition users.

    It's a fairly steep learning curve. It may help if you've got some Zend experience, although since I don't, I've no idea how helpful it would have been. If that makes sense :)

    But once you get the hang of how everything fits together, it's very customisable. The magento forums and Stack Overflow will usually answer most of your questions. There's a couple of books available on it, but probably not worthwhile - I'd no sooner bought a theme development guide for 1.3 than 1.4 came out and changed some stuff significantly, as has 1.5.

    Performance is the main issue. I've got it running on a shared server and am reasonably happy with it, though haven't gone live yet. There's a couple of free extensions you can install that will help (Fooman Speedster being the main one), turn on Magento's compilation feature when you're finished developing, and do all the usual stuff like compressing images, caching everything, using mod_deflate. But if you're expecting heavy traffic you might need more control on the server side so you can do stuff like SQL tuning and opcode caching.

    Best thing you can do is download the community edition and start playing around with it, and go from there


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