Archive: observer design pattern

How many hours have you spent developing Magento modules? Too many, probably. And what if you could “invest” those many hours in developing and customizing a better business logic within Magento, through the simple use of PHP hooks on Magento-Events? Well, here comes the time you are now free on focusing on what really counts: [...]

Magento uses a fantastic event hooking system, following the well known Observer Design Pattern, allowing additional functionality to be plugged in and out without modifying the core code. It can be difficult to know the names of the various hooks used all over the code base and even more difficult to find where they are [...]