Magento is a powerful system for modern e-commerce websites and as any system with wide range of features, it isn’t easy to masterate it. There is no any comprehensive manual, that will build a strong knowledge of all Magento coding aspects. But the problems that newcomers face with the system aren’t unique – every Magento developer has to overcome the same challenges that other developers did.
Initially, we’ve created this blog to build our internal knowledge base. But we understood that sharing information not only helps others but also helps us to get feedbacks and master our own skills. That’s why we decided to open the blog for all Magento developers on the web and build a roadmap for Magento beginners. Here you’ll find base Magento knowledge, coding tips, the examples of chosen solutions for complex problems, a new approach to popular tasks, and other useful information.
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The task was to add the extension’s elements to the standard authorization popup on Magento 2. The developers made it easy to do by adding their own component “social-buttons” into the list of embedded elements of the component “authenticationPopup” which is sent to the “authentication-popup” block’s constructor. The block “authentication-popup” and its element “authenticationPopup” appears…
I had to do light mini cart customizations to make it match the requirements. The challenge was that mini cart in Magento 2 is based on HTML-template loaded and filled by the js-library Knockout. For a newbie that doesn’t have enough experience in working with Magento 2, this task is quite complicated. Magento 2 mini…
I had a project with a branch called “develop”. I had a task to create custom theme inherited from the luma theme. I created a new branch for it and switched to the branch I’ve just created. Everything was working fine and I delivered the files of my custom theme to the dev server. I…
I have found the way to send e-mails via Gmail. It can be done with mail() function in a console: php -r “mail(‘[email protected]’, ‘Subject’, ‘Body’);” If to call mail() via php file, e-mails won’t be sent and it means that Magento won’t send anything. Installing and setting up Sendmail Check if it wasn’t installed before…
The developers at Magento Contribution Day recommended running unit tests before code deploying. The reasons are: it saves lots of time while testing and the quality of code becomes better. The code will be without errors or errors will be expected. Every function will work no matter what returning data type it receives. It knows…
You can face a needing of wishlists import after importing customers data to Magento. The way I did this is the simplest one but it requires manual “copy/paste” actions. Step1. Data preparation. It is the most difficult point of importing process. It can happen that data were stored without validations and there are lots of…
Hi there! I’ve collected links that can be useful for Magento coders. I’ve got them on MageConf 2017. The first day of the conference was dedicated to a bug (issues) fix Magento. These issues are located on Github (Magento 2 issues). If you want to be assigned to the certain bug you have to put…
Magento Contribution Day was conducted perfectly. The main topic of the event was addressed to the procedure of merge requests creation and to the knowledge mastering in real conditions. The task was to fix several confirmed code issues in the list on https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues. Participants of the Contribution Day were allowed to work with any issue…
The task was to set e-mail addresses export from the service with the help of Webhook to the client’s CRM via API. Webhook allows transporting some data while the determined event takes place. From the technical point of view, Webhook is a post-request to the certain URL that is set for a proper data acceptance….
Different test or debug operations require an installation of several websites configuration on a local server. The most popular example is dev website where all testing operations take place. My main website is set on the local address http://localhost.com/mage1911 (I use the variant with a path because it is a little bit harder than usage…
First of all, LAMP or LNMP programming packages should be installed according to the system requirements of Magento 1.x and Magento 2.0. If you have no idea what kind of packages it is, open Google and search for it (you’ll also learn how to install it). But be careful. It is likely that you’ll find…
So, the question is about gathering certain products from other categories, and putting them in some special category at the very moment customer starts to open that special category. As example, I can suggest a category with a list of new products (based on attributes “New from Date” and “New to Date”). This category will…
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