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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Magento 2 Development Cookbook

By : Bart Delvaux
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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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By: Bart Delvaux
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Overview of this book

With the challenges of growing an online business, Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform with innumerable functionalities that gives you the freedom to make on-the-fly decisions. It allows you to customize multiple levels of security permissions and enhance the look and feel of your website, and thus gives you a personalized experience in promoting your business.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Upgrading from Magento 1
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1. Upgrading from Magento 1
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Introduction
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Creating a Magento 1 website with sample data
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Creating a Magento 2 website
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Preparing an upgrade from Magento 1
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Upgrading the database
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Using an IDE
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Writing clean code with PHP MD and PHP CS
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2. Working with Products
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2. Working with Products
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Introduction
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Configuring the catalog defaults
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Working with attribute sets
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Working with product types
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Adding social media buttons
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Embedding an HTML object
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Changing the URL of a product page
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3. Theming
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3. Theming
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Introduction
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Exploring the default Magento 2 themes
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Creating a Magento 2 theme
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Customizing the HTML output
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Adding extra files to the theme
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Working with LESS
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Changing a page title
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Working with translations
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Adding widgets to the layout
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Customizing email templates
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4. Creating a Module
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4. Creating a Module
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Introduction
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Creating the module files
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Creating a controller
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Adding layout updates
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Adding a translation file
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Adding a block of new products
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Adding an interceptor
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Adding a console command
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5. Databases and Modules
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5. Databases and Modules
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Introduction
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Creating an install and upgrade script
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Creating a flat table with models
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Working with Magento collections
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Programmatically adding product attributes
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Repairing the database
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6. Magento Backend
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6. Magento Backend
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Introduction
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Registering a backend controller
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Extending the menu
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Adding an ACL
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Adding configuration parameters
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Creating a grid of a database table
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Working with backend components
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Adding customer attributes
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Working with source models
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7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs
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7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs
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Introduction
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Understanding event types
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Creating your own event
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Adding an event observer
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Introducing cronjobs
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Creating and testing a new cronjob
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8. Creating a Shipping Module
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8. Creating a Shipping Module
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Introduction
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Initializing module configurations
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Writing an adapter model
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Extending the shipping method features
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Adding the module in the frontend
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9. Creating a Product Slider Widget
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9. Creating a Product Slider Widget
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Introduction
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Creating an empty module
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Creating a widget configuration file
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Creating the block and template files
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Creating a custom configuration parameter
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Finalizing the theming
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10. Performance Optimization
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10. Performance Optimization
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Introduction
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Benchmarking a website
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Optimizing the frontend of the website
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Optimizing the database and MySQL configurations
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Optimizing the Apache web server
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Finding performance leaks in Magento
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Configuring OPcache, Redis, and Memcached
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Optimizing the PHP configurations
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11. Debugging and Unit Testing
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11. Debugging and Unit Testing
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Introduction
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Logging into Magento 2
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Getting started with Xdebug
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Running automated tests from Magento
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Creating a Magento test case
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Index
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Index

Preparing an upgrade from Magento 1

The differences between Magento 1 and Magento 2 are huge. The code has a whole new structure with a lot of improvements but there is one big disadvantage. What do I do if I want to upgrade my Magento 1 shop to a Magento 2 shop?

Magento created an upgrade tool that migrates the data from a Magento 1 database to the right structure for a Magento 2 database.

The custom modules in your Magento 1 shop will not work in Magento 2. It is possible that some of your modules will have a Magento 2 version, and depending on the module, the module author will have a migration tool to migrate the data that is in the module.

Getting ready

Before we get started, make sure you have an empty (without sample data) Magento 2 installation with the same version as the Migration tool that is available at:

https://github.com/magento/data-migration-tool-ce.

How to do it...

  1. In your Magento 2 version (with the same version as the migration tool), run the following commands:
    composer config repositories.data-migration-tool git https://github.com/magento/data-migration-tool-ce
composer require magento/data-migration-tool:2.0.0
  2. Install Magento 2 with an empty database by running the installer. Make sure you configure it with the right time zone and currencies.
  3. When these steps are done, you can test the tool by running the following command:
    php bin/magento migrate:data --help
  4. The next thing is creating the configuration files. Examples of the configuration files are in vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/<version>. We can create a copy of this folder where we can set our custom configuration values. For a Magento 1.9 installation, we have to run the following cp command:
    cp –R vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/1.9.1.0/ vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/packt-migration
  5. Open the vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/packt-migration/config.xml.dist file and search for the source/database and destination/database tags. Change the values of these database settings to your database settings like in the following code:
    <source>
  <database host="localhost" name="magento1" user="root"/>
</source>
<destination>
  <database host="localhost" name="magento2_migration" user="root"/>
</destination>
  6. Rename that file to config.xml with the following command:
    mv vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/packt-migration/config.xml.dist vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/packt-migration/config.xml

How it works...

By adding a composer dependency, we installed the data migration tool for Magento 2 in the codebase. This migration tool is a Magento console command that will handle the migration steps from a Magento 1 shop.

In the etc folder of the migration module, there is a sample configuration of an empty Magento 1.9 shop.

If you want to migrate an existing Magento 1 shop, you have to customize these configuration files so it matches your preferred state.

In the next recipe, we will learn how we can use the script to start the migration.

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