(openPR) - Packt is pleased to announce 'Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook', a new book which provides developers with optimum solutions to help tackle common and complex problems faced while developing a Magento store. Written by Nurul Ferdous, this book helps in optimizing Megento performance which is armed with some easy and incredible recepies.

Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that supports installation of modules through a web-based interface accessible through the administration area of a Magento installation. The modules are uploaded by the Magento community and installed by entering a module key into the web based interface.

Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook eases the task of developing Modules and Extentions. It provides clear guidelines to develop a faster and captivating Magento store by writing powerful custom modules. It will also help users explore the different ways to customize the look and feel of a Magento store so as to offer their customers with a better user experience.

This book covers everything from common development tasks to integrating social networking plugins into Magento. One can build a new Base 64 php plugin that handles the cryptography for Magento while installing Magento in PHP 5.3.X without the mcrypt module. Users can also integrate the Facebook 'Like' plugin in Magento and share content with friends on Facebook with just one click.

PHP developers, software engineers or any novice/experienced users interested in boosting thier PHP/Magento development skills to the next level in a fast-paced development environment and familiar with the basics of PHP would find this book an interesting and beneficial read. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information please visit www.packtpub.com/magento-1-4-development-cookbook/book

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