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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Creating a grid of a database table


In the previous chapter, we created a Magento entity that was linked to a database table. In this recipe, we will create a backend interface so that the backend users can see the data from this table in the backend.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the right files for this recipe installed in your Magento instance.

We will create an overview that will use the standard Magento backend grid widget. This widget is used for a lot of grids in the backend, such as the products, orders, CMS pages, and more.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create backend grids:

  1. When we want a new page, we need a controller with a controller action. So we need to add an ACL for that page. Open the file app/code/Packt/HelloWorld/etc/acl.xml, and add the following line of code as a child of the <resource id="Packt_HelloWorld::helloworld" title="HelloWorld" sortOrder="60"> tag:

    <resource id="Packt_HelloWorld::subscription" title="HelloWorld subscription" />
  2. We need some...