Php

PHing  Is Not GNU make; it’s a PHP project build system or build tool based on   Apache Ant . You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.

This build tool ensures that the process of creating your  web application from source code happens in a proper and repeatable way. This is the best way to reduce the possibility of errors caused by manual uploads via FTP or SSH using desktop client.

Some useful function for managing attribute values in Magento.

You can grab all existing categories in Magento to array, here is quick example:

You can create Magento config settings using XML files, or… do this directly from model. Here is example:

All links in Magento should be generated via url model. Here is simple examples working in backend.