April 2010
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Magento Connect
You might wonder what is Magento Connect.
In fact, you can install different applications in Magento thanks to a web based interface accessible through the admin panel.
Most of extensions are directly hosted on the Magento website as a PEAR server. Wow what does it mean? It just mean that you do not have to go through your FTP to install additionnal stuff on your website. This is crazy: you...
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Magento Minimum Requirements
Magento is a very powerful tool and thus requires some minimum configuration.
Here is all you need to have:
Apache:
Apache 1.3, 2.0, or 2.2
PHP Compatibility:
PHP 5.3
Required PHP extensions:
PDO_MySQL;
simplexml;
mcrypt;
hash;
GD;
DOM;
iconv;
SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used);
Safe_mode off;
Memory_limit no less than 256Mb (preferably 512Mb).
MySQL:
4.1.20 or newer;
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What is Magento?
Magento is an open-source ecommerce CMS (content management system) created the March 31, 2008. The name of the company who created it is Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework.
Magento is an open-source CMS available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0: it means you have to pay...