Branko Ajzele

A fast-paced, practical guide to help you build your own shop with Magento.

A practical guide to building Magento modules from scratch; it takes you step-by-step through the whole process from first principles to practical development.

Harness the power of Magento 2—the most recent version of the world’s favorite eCommerce platform for your online store.

Utilize the power of modular programming to improve code readability, maintainability, and testability.

Branko was crowned eCommerce Developer of the Year by Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in eCommerce development.

A Magento extension. With a single click of the “Next” or “Previous” link, customers can navigate between products.

A unified logs area for all outgoing curl requests, database queries, a built-in logging mechanism, and more.

A configurable Magento v1.x extension for logging user and/or customer actions (front-end and back-end).

Adds the posibility to mass import URL rewrites into Magento.

A Magento extension for Piwik: open source website analytics software (http://piwik.org).

A Magento extension for Open Web Analytics (http://www.openwebanalytics.com).

A light (one-mailing list subscribe/unsubscribe with web-hooks) MailChimp extension for Magento.

If your search yields only one product, this module redirects you directly to that product page.

This extension will allow you to do slight modifications to the catalog toolbar, such as merge/combine "sort by" and "order," build custom labels for "sort by," and more.

A Magento extension for sorting attributes order on the catalog advanced search page.

This extension enables you to change sort order of Magento notification messages through the config page.

A Magento extension for FoxMetrics—customer analytics and targeting (http://foxmetrics.com).

A Magento extension for integration with https://www.reinvigorate.net: a "simple, real-time web analytics and heatmaps" service.

A Magento extension for https://www.kissmetrics.com web service.

A Magento extension for Croatian fiscal tax law.

An implementation of the PBZ MyCheckOut payment gateway.

A Magento extension for the Croatian T-Com PayWay payment gateway.

Adds the possibility to limit the maximum order amount.

This required a Magento and Drupal integration. I worked on entire site back-end—both the Drupal and Magento side. I also implemented various connector features and performed mass product and order imports/exports. I also implemented a custom search functionality via Elasticsearch.

This is a high-performance Magento shop with over 300,000 products. Worked on various third party integrations from payment to shipment. I also did work on various product and order imports, exports, and updates.

The client is a luxury chocolate brand. I reworked the old site, built numerous back-end custom features and performance optimizations.

Worked on a series of internal (dealership) Magento EE installations, with highly customized features ranging from payment and shipment to various other 3rd party integrations (SOAP, REST, etc).

This is an online fashion brand that needed high performance Magento. It has a large catalog set with lots of HQ images. I worked on numerous custom features in the back-end, made performance optimizations, and more.

A home delivery meals and dessert site powered by Magento. Worked on numerous back-end integrations and lots of product import and export scripts.

A handmade luxury British sofas and sofa beds powered by Magento. It required lots of export and import integrations in the back-end, including Salesforce.

The book starts by unveiling the new features of PHP 7 and walks you through several important standards set by the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG).

You’ll see, in detail, the working of all the magic methods and the importance of effective PHP OOP concepts which will enable you to write effective PHP code. You find out how to implement design patterns and resolve dependencies to make your code base more elegant and readable. You will also build web services alongside microservices architecture, interact with databases, and work around third-party packages to enrich applications.

This book delves into the details of PHP performance optimization. You will learn about serverless architecture and the reactive programming paradigm that found its way in the PHP ecosystem. The book also explores the best ways of testing your code, debugging, tracing, profiling, and deploying your PHP application.

By the end of the book, you will be able to create readable, reliable, and robust applications in PHP to meet modern day requirements in the software industry.