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XML is a markup language that looks a lot like HTML. An XML document is plain text and contains tags delimited by < and >.There are two big differences between XML and HTML −

• XML doesn't define a specific set of tags you must use.
• XML is extremely picky about document structure.

XML gives you a lot more freedom than HTML. HTML has a certain set of tags: the tags surround a link, the

starts paragraph and so on. An XML document, however, can use any tags you want. Put tags around a movie rating, tags around someone's height. Thus XML gives you option to device your own tags.

XML is very strict when it comes to document structure. HTML lets you play fast and loose with some opening and closing tags. But this is not the case with XML.

Since the Magento 2 platform is so different, it requires existing extensions to be re-built. As more and more customers move to Magento 2, they will demand their favorite extensions become available. If extensions aren’t upgraded, customers will move elsewhere to find what they need. CreativeMinds has certified Magento developers ready to help ease this transition. In addition to upgrading our own extensions to Magento 2, we’ve worked with other companies to upgrade extensions related to fraud detection, email marketing, payment gateways, and more. Let us help give your customers the benefit of Magento 2’s new features with beautifully coded extension upgrades. This can make the transition to this new version easier and less stressful.

• Magento is supported by PHP, comparatively to other e-commerce solutions, Magento might be slow in performance
• It becomes a complex system if it is not using object-oriented programming
• Magento requires much space and memory

This article provides step-by-step procedure for Magento installation. Befor installing Magento, you require following system requirements.

System Requirements for Magento

• Database : MySQL 5.1 +

• Web Server :

  • Apache 2.x

  • Nginx 1.7.x

• Operating System : Cross-platform

• Browser Support : IE (Internet Explorer 7), Firefox, Google chrome

• SSL (Secure Socket Layer) : A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS.

• PHP Compatibility : PHP 5.4 +

The Magento architecture comes with Models, Views and Controllers.

• User Request: The user sends a request to a server in the form of request message where web browsers, search engines etc acts like clients.

• View: View represents the data in particular format. Views represents the user interface which is responsible for displaying the response for user request. It specifies an idea behind the presentation of the model's data to the user. Views are used to reflect "how your data should looks like".

• Controller: The controller is responsible for responding to user input and perform interactions on the data model objects. It uses models to process the data and send response back to the view.

• Model: The model is responsible for managing the data of the application. It contains logic of the data and represents basic data object in the framework. It responds to request from the view and responds to the instructions from the controller to update itself.

• Database: It contains the information which is requested from the user. When user requests data, view sends requests to controller, controller requests from the model and model fetches the required information from the database and responds to the user.

• WSDL: It stands for Web Services Description Language. It is used for describing web services and how to access them.