Alternate Magento 1 Configuration Model There’s a handful of classes you can’t rewrite in Magento 1, but more modern version of Magento provide a way to slot in your own configuration class. I still wish I lived in the alternate universe where Varien had the resources to take the brilliant parts of Magento 1 and refine them [...]
astormToday we're going to cover creating Magento 2 CRUD models. CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete, and commonly refers to framework features used to read and write information to/from the underlying database without directly writing any SQL statements.
astormOne interesting thing about Magento 2’s refactored layout system is how it enables multiple XML trees modifying one global structure object. The layout builder for page objects #File: vendor/magento/framework/View/Page/Builder.php protected function generateLayoutBlocks() { $this->readPageLayout(); return [...]
astormMagento 2’s remove Tag Stack Exchange answer covering where Magento 2’s layout remove=“1” attribute tag is implemented. Short version – the block/container reader/scheduler classes look for it, and then tell the scheduler there’s an item to remove from the layout. Then, when the Generator pool builds [...]
astormOne recent Magento 2 discovery that caught me off guard is, per the dev docs site, the <action/> method tag is depreciated The <action> instruction is deprecated. If the method implementation allows, use the <argument> for <block> or <referenceBlock> to access block public API. Given this, it sort of makes [...]
astormI’m starting to get a handle on how Magento 2 renders a layout and how those changes will impact folks to spend their day in layout handle XML files. This one’s mainly for myself – posting it here to get it out of my head. The first step of layout rendering in Magento 2 is still building a “package layout” [...]
astormThe app/etc/config.php file contains a list of all the modules in Magento that have been enabled/disabled. It’s also the master list for module ordering – i.e. Magento references this file when deciding what order to load configuration files in. The order of modules in app/etc/config.php is, itself, determined by the [...]
astormMagento 2: Sequence Gotcha A little bit of the old derp form yours truly. Magento 2’s module.xml file contain a <sequence/> node that acts like the old <depends/> from Magento 1’s app/etc/modules declaration files. There’s a small catch though – in order to make Magento recognize changes to your [...]
astormMage2Katas Screencast demonstrations from Vinai Kopp covering TDD methods in Magento 2. Watching an experienced developer work (the “code katas” approach) can be super useful – it’s one thing to read “you should do X”, but when you watch someone “do X” understanding can rapidly click in.
astormWelcome to your fortnightly “Open Magento 2 Technical Questions” post. If you’ve got an answer to any of the following please use the provided Stack Exchange thread to answer, or say hello via email if public communication isn’t possible. First off, we’ve got a slew of new questions. After that, some follow [...]
astormLast week we covered RequireJS, which is the foundational framework for Magento 2's modern approach to javascript. Today we're going to do the same for Magento 2's use of cascading style sheets.
astormThis one deserves a longer post, but my schedule is not forgiving. This assumes you’ve read and understand the concepts from my Magento object manager series. Many Magento provided classes have a special context object in their constructor. #File: vendor/magento/module-catalog/Controller/Product/View.php //... use [...]
astormMagestead – A Vagrant LEMP Stack for Magento Developers Magestead looks like another contender in the “geting a Magento 2 system up and running using vagrant and VMs”. Homestead inspired, it may be worth checking out.
astormRequest: .user.ini files for FPM config · Issue #705 · magento/magento2 Somehow I’d always assumed nginx worked hard to be apache compatible. It doesn’t sound like that’s the case, which is a shame. I also found this on the official nginx wiki Stop using .htaccess. It’s horrible for performance. NGINX is designed to be [...]
astormFor over a decade I’ve kept most my development work confined to the physical Macintosh OS X laptop I use every day, running server software using the OS X unix/bsd/darwin internals. I pick a stable version of PHP and install the php-osx package (previously the entropy.ch package), install MySQL via MySQL/Oracle’s OS X [...]
astormI’m not super conversant in the less CSS preprocessor, so I’m not sure how useful they are, but Magento 2 ships with some useful looking UI library docs in lib/web/css/docs/index.html You won’t be able to browse to these files via HTTP – you’ll need to open them directly in a web browser.
astormMagento 2 Marketplace Upload Validation Tool (Quick Note) Magento’s lead architect, Alan Kent, just posted a small command line program to validate a “composer zip archive” for Magento Marketplace. Magento Marketplace is the replacement for Magento Connect, and although its details remain a secret, its assumed to be an [...]
astormNow that we've covered the basics of including javascript and CSS files in Magento 2, we're going to start exploring Magento's adoption of modern front end tools and libraries.
astormThanks to some late, post merchant beta changes made to Magento, distributing modules via Composer (PHP’s de-facto package/dependency manager) has never been easier. While we’re all interested to see how the new Marketplace turns out, thanks to Magento 2’s architecture changes we should all be able to distribute our [...]
astormPermission issues with static generated files in pub directory · Issue #2412 · magento/magento2 I built my first website in 1995 – which means I’ve had over 20 years of battling unix file permissions. Or, more appropriatly, fighting the software world’s myriad ways of dealing and not dealing with them.
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