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What’s New with Magento
First, let me tell you that I will soon be receiving the Magento 1.3 PHP Developer’s Guide to review. Magento has an architecture link no other software. Hopefully this book sheds some light on developing with Magento and beats hunting a pecking through the forums. The last book I bought for a CMS was one for Drupal. With WordPress, I picked up everything I know online.
Up to a few weeks ago, I was about done with Magento. I have a post I was working in in my drafts on suggested shopping carts. Magento is not in the list. Because anywhere attributes are loaded, Magento is slow. Anywhere configurable products are loaded, Magento is slow. Anywhere products are listed in a collection, Magento is slow. You go to checkout and Magento is slow. This did not happen up to a certain amount of products and a certain amount of attributes, but at some point, the sites seem to hit a wall. But I have found a few solutions like html block caching in the meantime and think I can make this work for our sites using Magento. Not so sure I want to tackle another site using Magento yet though, at least not with the product complexity of Magento sites I have built.
And so yesterday I go and update our Magento installations to 1.4. Those who know Magento, know how well that went. But it’s working now and here is how I Upgraded to Magento 1.4, if you need that info.
The 1.4 version of Magento has custom variables, widgets and new cache and index system from what I can see so far.
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thanks very good news
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I bought the Magento 1.3 PHP Developer’s Guide a while back and found it an invaluable resource and reference for building Magento Themes and Templates so enjoy. I look forward to seeing what you create with your new found knowledge.
I know the magento 1.4 upgrade caused some headaches for developers but overall was well worth it. Are there books coming out for that upgrade or is it just to soon yet?
In Magento 1.5 promised a new integrated admin panel. For a corporate site, the platform fit?
I’ve tested how does the new cache works on Magento 1.4 and found that it is really better that previous version
thx
Hi,
I am a new magento user, we have in the region of 5000 attributes, we find magento completely unusable because it just times out and is slow when it comes to uploading attributes, can anyone help with a solution? surely we cant be the only ones with several attributes?
Regards,
Nik
@nik Yes, attributes do slow Magento down. The only solution I have found is a more powerful server and heavier backend caching.
I’m testing Magento now…
Very cool, I just started playing around with magneto, it’s really complicated.
i’ve used magento for a couple projects and it’s lovely software. The only problem is a lot of hosts don’t handle it if you have a cheaper one. And those that do tend to run very slowly. Much like hosting a ruby on rails application (also great software to work with!) The package is totally worth it though for the features and customization!