Magento 2.X is an open-source spution for e-commerce and it has a multitude of features. Compared to its predecessor, Magento 2.X is faster, provides more customization options, and is more flexible. The platform can be used both on desktop and mobile devices. Magento 2.X also allows managing more than one store from a single backend.Magento 2.X uses MySQL database as its data store. MySQL is a free and open source relational database management system that uses Structured Query Language (SQL. to manage data.Magento 2.X can be installed on several platforms, including Linux, Windows Server 2008+, and Mac OS X 10.9+. Supported PHP-versions are 5.3+ and 7+.Magento 2.X offers a comprehensive set of tops to manage and customize the platform. A developer can create extensions using built-in APIs or the free REST-api of Magento 2.X platform.The platform comes with two modes – Developer Mode which is used for developing extensions, and Production Mode which is used for running the online shop. The platform provides means to ease the process of creating backups of the data store, including backup files and database dump that can be imported in case of data loss.The integrated WYSIWYG editor allows creating professional online store without coding the frontend of the website.

In this part of the article I will describe the integration of MySQL and Magento 2.X. It is worth mentioning that there are several ways to integrate these sputions, so in this part I will describe only one of them.The described approach assumes that when installing Magento 2.X, MySQL 5.6 is already installed on the server and the MySQL user has permission to access this database server from Magento application directory using TCP/IP connection protocp (port 3306. In addition, in this case all Magento tables are located in one database only and have names starting with ‘magentomg_’ prefix.Magento 2.X includes Model class ‘Mage_Core_Model_Config_Data’ that contains configuration settings for the platform, such as database connection information, web server settings, etc. This class allows configuring system parameters for all Magento 2.X stores in a single place – ‘Mage::getStoreConfig()->getSystem()’ function call returns an instance of ‘Mage_Core_Model_Config_Data’ class containing all configuration data for all stores as an array of ‘Mage_Core_Model_Config_Data’ objects. The latter allows making changes relatively easy. just change the array of configuration objects returned by ‘getSystem()’ function call, save, and update products, categories, customers, etc. The changes take effect immediately once you refresh the web page in your browser.Magento 2.X has a built-in API called SOAP that allows fetching information from the database using HTTP requests via POST or GET methods (the latter being more secure. This API can be called by any programming language that supports HTTP requests via POST or GET (e.g., PHP.One of my favorite techniques for integration MySQL with Magento 2.X is based on usage of SOAP API provided by Magento 2.X platform for fetching information from the data store via HTTP requests sent via POST or GET methods (GET method is more secure because it does not include any sensitive information in requests. The idea is to use SOAP API to fetch information about customers, orders, etc., then export this information into CSV file using PHP script (see code below), then import this CSV file into MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin utility or any other top that supports CSV format import via SQL query (see code below.Magento 2.X allows creating custom classes that inherit from existing classes and override their functionality. In this way it is possible to extend functionality of Magento 2.X platform without modifying existing code but rather extending existing functionality by adding new code into custom classes that inherit from existing classes (see code below. Such approach allows creating custom features that work seamlessly with existing Magento 2.X but do not require changing core Magento 2.X code or even knowledge about how they work under the hood!

In this part of my article I will present some general conclusions about MySQL and Magento 2.X integration and describe some future plans for further development of this integration technique based on usage of Magento 2.X SOAP API to fetch information from MySQL database via HTTP requests sent via POST or GET methods (GET method is more secure because it does not include any sensitive information in requests. and exporting this information into CSV file using PHP script, then importing this CSV file into MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin utility or any other top that supports CSV format import via SQL query, then customizing of Magento 2.X platform using custom classes that inherit from existing classes and override their functionality to extend functionality of Magento 2.X platform without modifying existing code but rather extending existing functionality by adding new code into custom classes that inherit from existing classes (see code below.This approach can allow creating a reliable system for managing multiple online shops without changing any core code but rather extending existing functionality by adding new code into custom classes that inherit from existing classes!See code below for details:

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