Recently I tried to customize mage.SwatchRenderer widget, and was unpleasantly surprised by the frustrating lack of documentation on this topic, and by some changes, mage by Magento2 developers in Magento_Swatches module . I am a newbie in Magento2, and now, when I finally managed to make all needed customizations, I want to share my experience with other newbies. I…
In this post I tried to write a little about base module structure, how to use module’s files and include some custom cases. – Which codepool is better for custom module? 1. If you need to create some new functionality and then share it in magento community, put the module in app/code/community. It is better…
I decided to learn and understand the way magento reads and generates layout xml files. I used some articles and the debbuging of code. I wrote some moments, which I found interesting and important for understanding magento working with layouts during my debbuging. As an example I used checkout/cart page and I had already installed…
I created custom module, which adds a button to product edit page. When I log in to admin panel as a user, who has ‘Administrators’ role, I can use the button without any problems. But I need to create a new role with some limited rights and to add it to a new user. Then…