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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Overview of this book

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform.The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. Tshis book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you’ll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Magento 2 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Custom variables


Variables are a handy little feature of a core Magento_Variable module. Magento allows you to create custom variables and then use them in e-mail templates, the WYSIWYG editor, or even code expressions.

The following steps outline how we can create a new variable manually:

  1. In the Magento admin area, navigate to System | Other Settings | Custom Variables.

  2. Click on the Add New Variable button.

  3. While keeping in mind the Store View switcher, fill in the required Variable Code and Variable Name options, and preferably one of the optional options, either Variable HTML Value or Variable Plain Value.

  4. Click on the Save button.

Now that we have created the custom variable, we can use it in an e-mail template or the WYSIWYG editor by calling it using the following expression:

{{customVar code=foggyline_hello}}

The preceding expression will call for the value of the custom variable with code foggyline_hello.

Variables can be used within various code expressions, though it is not recommended...