Introduction
This article explains Magento in PHP. Magento is a Content Management System (CMS) that is an open source eCommerce web application launched on 31 march 2008. Magento was developed by 'Varien' with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by Magento. Magento uses its own MVC pattern but that's called a CMS and Magento was developed in the PHP Zend Framework. Magento provides multiple features, like including product display options, cell templates, exchange options, multi-store as well as multi-site functionality and so on.
Installation of Magento
For installation of magento, you can use two steps.
The first step is create an online store; log into "http://go.magento.com/".
The second step is to You use an offline store with the use of magento setup. For the second step you can use the following procedure.
First, download the Magento setup and then put it into your PHP directory. Then start your wamp server and run your Magento setup. Such as "http://localhost/magento" now your magento installation is started.
This is your step one for license agreement.
Step two is your localization setting.
Before installing the third step you will create a database for Magento. I will explain in the image below.
And now let's start your third step for configuration settings.
And the next step is to create an admin account.
Your installation is successful; save your encrypted password.
Here login for the admin area.
This is your front page of the website.