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Magento 1.x Best Practices and Conventions

Magento 1.x Best Practices and Conventions

Hi everyone,

 

 

I would like to share with you the best practices and conventions for Magento 1 that I've been implementing for the last 7 years.
I will be editing this answer with more and more information, and I would like to hear more about your best practices and conventions.

Based on your participation on this topic, I will edit this post in the topic and I will add your best practices as well, so we can use the first post as a "wiki" and improve it with the collaboration of everyone in the forum.



Back-end

 

  1. Do not modify the Magento core: app/code/core
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    This is the #1 rule when it comes to customizing Magento. To be specific, the files from the app/code/core folder should never be modified to ensure the stability and upgradability of the Magento store.

  2. Avoid rewriting classes
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  3. If you rewrite a class, then annotate the changes you made to the core file
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  4. Avoid implementing a lot of observers
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  5. Keep a small number of shopping cart and catalog price rules
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  6. Remember setting magento in Developer Mode to develop
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  7. Develop with the display_errors setting enabled and E_NOTICE turned on
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  8. Always turn off the cache in your local machine to avoid losing time
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  9. Document your classes and methods using PHPDoc comments
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  10. Limit the usage of PHP in the front-end
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  11. Do not use direct SQL queries to connect to the database, use models instead
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  12. Follow Magento naming conventions for classes, methods and files
    1. Methods and variable names should use camelCase
    2. Indexed arrays should use snake_case keys
    3. PHP variable names in the front-end should start with $_ (underscore after $ sign)

Front-end

 

  1. Don't use inline CSS in the front-end

  2. You can use tables, but only if you want to present tabular data

  3. Use image sprites to load icons in your theme

 

 

 

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