Below you'll find all the Uncategorized articles on the site, followed by a chronological listing of the same. You may also browse the 8 series directly via the following links. Miscellaneous Magento Articles, SugarCRM for PHP MVC Developers, Magento 2: Advanced Javascript, Magento 2 UI Components, Accelerated Mobile Pages, Pestle, Sylius for Magento and PHP Developers, and, Containers, Containers, Containers.
I’m writing this down so I can remember it later – if you’re not deep into Magento service contracts apologies for the word soup. When Magento’s parsing doc block’s for parameter types, it’s only looking at interfaces – or possibly its only looking at the type it knows about. i.e. if you have [...]
astormFooman’s Magento Imagine 2017 Wrap Up Another developer oriented Magento Imagine 2017 wrap up. Include the slides from Kristof’s talk on Magento and composer.
astormOver in my Patreon slack, a patron came to me with the following layout handle XML chunk. This block of XML would successfully remove the block named breadcrumbs, but it would not successfully remove the block named product_list_toolbar. This is one of those places where Magento’s lack of documentation and/or a cogent systems [...]
astormMagento 2 Module for Custom Reporting Grids Haven’t tried it yet, but this looks like a Magento 2 module that will let you easily create new Reporting Grids with a simple SQL statement.
astormImagine2017 Summary from Yiero Founder Jisse Reitsma A nice, succinct wrap up of Magento’s announcements at Imagine 2017. Lots of third party service acquisitions for EE users, not much public-news/investment on the open-source/CE/independent-developer side of things.
astormHeadless Magento 2 Resources “Headless Magento” – that is, an ecommerce store whose user interface uses some other technology stack for the UI/UX (i.e. javascript) while relying on Magento’s REST API endpoints for store functionality – is a hot topic in the Magento world. While this approach can explode a project’s budget (you’re reimplementing the a front-end store and any extension functionality) it is, none-the-less, popular with agencies looking to put their javascript engineering teams to work. If your sales team has thrown you in the headless deep-end, the sitewards/headless-magento2-resources and ishakhsuvarov/going-headless GitHub repositories are two small projects that are […]
astormWhether you’re using your IDE, a debugging extension, or calling get_class and new ReflectionClass yourself, PHP (or any language’s) ability to examine itself at runtime is a vital tool for debugging a program. Most bugs come down to “this variable does not have what I thought it had in it”, or “the thing in [...]
astormWe’ve just released pestle 1.3.1, the investable .0.1 release following 1.3.0. The release fixes a few bugs with the generated DDL code for text and decimal based columns. Full details available in the issue that reported the problem. If you’re at today’s Magento Imagine hackathon (or any day’s hackathon really), [...]
astormSo what is a Magento 2 theme? To understand that, we’ll first need to talk about the Magento_Theme module. The Magento_Theme module contains page layout XML files that define the basic containers for every Magento page layout. This allows other Magento modules to use layout handle XML files to Add frontend assets (JavaScript, CSS, [...]
astormI’m working on adding DDL (data definition language) code generation to pestle – i.e. the code that ultimately creates your database tables that lives in the InstallSchema or UpgradeSchema classes. I came across this bit of weirdness #File: vendor/magento/module-cms/Setup/InstallSchema.php )->addColumn( 'identifier', [...]
astormThis entry is part 5 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, and Pestle 1.2.1 Released. Later posts include Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, Pestle 1.4.4 Released, Pestle Docs Done (for now), [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, and Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts. Later posts include Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, Pestle 1.4.4 Released, [...]
astormHere’s a fun pestle command I forgot about. pestle.phar magento2:search:search_controllers This command accepts a file path as a single argument, searches through the specified folder for anything that looks like a Magento controller file, and then displays that controller file’s execute method along with its relative file [...]
astormUI Component Item source Nodes are Redundant I finally got an answer out of Magento engineering on those <item name="source"/> nodes and their best guess is as good as ours. i.e., they’re redundant/not-used. There’s a few interesting points to make here for folks just learning to program, and just getting settled into [...]
astormAlthough there’s no documentation stating this, based on system behavior it seems like the Package/Module/Setup/InstallSchema.php class files are sort of required by a Magento module. I say sort of required because you can run a module without them. You can use that module to add features to Magento. However, a version number for [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 12 in the series Pestle. Later posts include Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, Pestle 1.4.4 Released, Pestle Docs Done (for now), [...]
astormWhile PHP production environments have long made use of extra systems like memcache, varnish, and redis, most successful PHP projects also let developers and technically savvy folks drop an archive of files on a server, point the web server at those files, configure the application to point to a traditional RDMS/database, and have a [...]
astormTangentially Magento related: Magento uses the lusitanian/oauth composer package to handle some oAuth related tasks. In addition to the usual “create the cryptic Authorization: headers” code you’d expect to find in an oAuth library, there’s also these two folders of code [...]
astormIn a typical adminhtml UI Form Component, each individual form element has a corresponding view model object. For text input fields, these view models come from the constructor function returned by the Magento_Ui/js/form/element/abstract RequireJS module. The view model’s value property, an Knockout observable object, contains the [...]
astormGitHub – DavidLambauer/awesome-magento2: Curated list of awesome Magento 2 Extensions, Resources and other Highlights I haven’t reviewed these, but a working developer’s take on what makes an “awesome” module is always worth investigating.
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