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Standard Product Types in Magento

Magento has 6 standard product types, including: Simple product, grouped product, configurable product, virtual product, bundle product and downloadable product. Simple product:  is an instance of physical products, having a single configuration (one-size-fits-all). For example: a cell-phone, a monitor… Grouped product:  is a product type that allows you to create a new product using one or more existing products, such …

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What is the DDL class in Magento?

The only DDL class in Magento is Varien_Db_Ddl_Table. The DDL class consists of a const variable corresponding with types of data (Boolean, small int, integer) and some keywords in SQL (CASCADE, RESTRICT,…) The DDL class includes functions to work with the Table object in the database such as: addColumn() addForeignKey() addIndex() Some important functions in the DDL class: addColumn($name, $type, …

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