This thesis comprises a rework of the Magento e-commerce content management system into an employee attendance tracking system.
In the first part of the thesis the reasons for selecting Magento system are presented and also some already existing web solutions for employee attendance tracking are shown. Next is the presentation of the Magento system, that is, principles of its MVC architecture. After that follows the description of the tools on which Magento is based upon and some of the tools we used to make our employee attendance tracking software better.
The second part describes the development process, which starts with the reduction of the Magento system, to a more general system for web based application development. With the help of the implementation process of our main module, which serves the purpose of the employee attendance tracking system, we describe the module development process in Magento system and present an example of extending a core functionality. Next, the presentation of the remaining functionalities implemented for our employee attendance tracking system follows, and the description of the design, which attempts to follow the newest trends in web application development.
In the last part we present the goals of the future development of the application, where some of them are based on already existing functionalities of the Magento system.
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