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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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.

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Magento 2 Development Cookbook
Dec, 2015 | 304 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1
1. Upgrading from Magento 1
1. Upgrading from Magento 1
Introduction
Creating a Magento 1 website with sample data
Creating a Magento 2 website
Preparing an upgrade from Magento 1
Upgrading the database
Using an IDE
Writing clean code with PHP MD and PHP CS
2
2. Working with Products
2. Working with Products
Introduction
Configuring the catalog defaults
Working with attribute sets
Working with product types
Adding social media buttons
Embedding an HTML object
Changing the URL of a product page
3
3. Theming
3. Theming
Introduction
Exploring the default Magento 2 themes
Creating a Magento 2 theme
Customizing the HTML output
Adding extra files to the theme
Working with LESS
Changing a page title
Working with translations
Adding widgets to the layout
Customizing email templates
4
4. Creating a Module
4. Creating a Module
Introduction
Creating the module files
Creating a controller
Adding layout updates
Adding a translation file
Adding a block of new products
Adding an interceptor
Adding a console command
5
5. Databases and Modules
5. Databases and Modules
Introduction
Creating an install and upgrade script
Creating a flat table with models
Working with Magento collections
Programmatically adding product attributes
Repairing the database
6
6. Magento Backend
6. Magento Backend
Introduction
Registering a backend controller
Extending the menu
Adding an ACL
Adding configuration parameters
Creating a grid of a database table
Working with backend components
Adding customer attributes
Working with source models
7
7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs
7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs
Introduction
Understanding event types
Creating your own event
Adding an event observer
Introducing cronjobs
Creating and testing a new cronjob
8
8. Creating a Shipping Module
8. Creating a Shipping Module
Introduction
Initializing module configurations
Writing an adapter model
Extending the shipping method features
Adding the module in the frontend
9
9. Creating a Product Slider Widget
9. Creating a Product Slider Widget
Introduction
Creating an empty module
Creating a widget configuration file
Creating the block and template files
Creating a custom configuration parameter
Finalizing the theming
10
10. Performance Optimization
10. Performance Optimization
Introduction
Benchmarking a website
Optimizing the frontend of the website
Optimizing the database and MySQL configurations
Optimizing the Apache web server
Finding performance leaks in Magento
Configuring OPcache, Redis, and Memcached
Optimizing the PHP configurations
11
11. Debugging and Unit Testing
11. Debugging and Unit Testing
Introduction
Logging into Magento 2
Getting started with Xdebug
Running automated tests from Magento
Creating a Magento test case
12
Index
Index

Extending the menu

In the previous recipe, we added a new page to the backend, but it is important that you are able to easily navigate to your custom pages. Not everyone knows the URL, and if the secret keys are enabled for the administrator URLs, it is likely impossible to build a correct URL because you have to know the key.

Getting ready

This recipe builds further on the previous one. Make sure you have the code of the previous recipe installed.

How to do it...

The following steps describe how we can add extra menu items to the Admin menu:

  1. First we have to think about where we will get an extra menu item in the Admin menu. For this tutorial, we will add an extra item in the Marketing menu. For this we need to know the ID of the marketing menu.

  2. Create the file app/code/Packt/HelloWorld/etc/adminhtml/menu.xml with the following content:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Backend...
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