Magento 2 Cookbook

Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.

Magento 2 Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX

Installing Magento 2 on Hypernode

Managing Magento 2 on Docker

Magento 2 System Tools

Introduction

Installing Magento 2 sample data via GUI

Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line

Managing Magento 2 indexes via the command line

Managing Magento 2 cache via the command line

Managing Magento 2 backup via the command line

Managing Magento 2 set mode (MAGE_MODE)

Transferring your Magento 1 database to Magento 2

Enabling Performance in Magento 2

Introduction

Configuring Redis for backend cache

Configuring Memcached for session caching

Configuring Varnish as the Full Page Cache

Configuring Magento 2 with CloudFlare

Configuring optimized images in Magento 2

Configuring Magento 2 with HTTP/2

Configuring Magento 2 performance testing

Creating Catalogs and Categories

Introduction

Create a Root Catalog

Create subcategories

Manage attribute sets

Create products

Manage products in a catalog grid

Managing Your Store

Introduction

Creating shipping and tax rules

Managing customer groups

Configuring inventories

Configuring currency rates

Managing advanced pricing

Creating a Magento 2 Theme

Introduction

Creating a new theme

Changing a layout XML of a Magento 2 module

Adding CSS/JS to pages

Using Grunt for CSS changes

Adding static blocks to pages through layout XML

Adding static blocks to pages through widgets

Using a dynamic serving theme based on the client browser

Creating theme-specific translations

Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics

Introduction

Initializing extension basics

Working with database models

Creating tables using setup scripts

Creating a web route and controller to display data

Creating system configuration fields

Creating a backend data grid

Creating a backend form to add/edit data

Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced

Introduction

Using dependency injection to pass classes to your own class

Modifying functions with the use of plugins – Interception

Creating your own XML module configuration file

Creating your own product type

Working with service layers/contracts

Creating a Magento CLI command option

Index

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Installing MySQL

Throughout the following recipes, we will install the latest MySQL 5.7.x version on Apache and NGINX. The current MySQL version is a milestone in the open source world. Its new performance and scalability features will be a great benefit for every Magento website. This recipe will show you how to do it.

Tip

MySQL 5.7 is an extremely exciting new version of the world's most popular open source database, which is two times faster than MySQL 5.6 while also improving usability, manageability, and security.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a preinstalled Apache or NGINX and PHP-FPM or HHVM setup. No other prerequisites are required.

How to do it...

Before we can install the latest MySQL version, we need to download the software in our local system. The official MySQL APT repository provides you with a simple and convenient way to install and update MySQL products. Always use the latest software package using apt-get.

We will now install MySQL using the official vendor package. Run the following command from your root or home directory:
```
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.5.3-1_all.deb
```
To download the rest of the latest MySQL package, we first install the mysql-apt-config package. Run the following command:
```
dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.5.3-1_all.deb
```
During installation, it will ask which MySQL product you wish to configure. Select Server:
Next, it will ask which Server version you wish to receive. Select mysql-5.7:
In the next screen, click on Apply:
Now, we will update our Ubuntu system using the latest MySQL packages:
```
apt-get update && apt-get -y install mysql-server
```
During installation, it will ask you several questions. The first one will be to choose a new password for the MySQL root user. Always make sure to create a new dedicated user only for a database; using root is just an example and not advised on production.
Once every MySQL package is installed, we can check whether everything is in order by running the following command on the shell:
```
mysql --version
```
The output of this command is as follows:
```
root@mage2cookbook:~# mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.9, for Linux (x86_64)
```

How it works…

Let's recap and find out what we did throughout this recipe. In steps 1 through 3, we download the official MySQL package and use a graphical interface to install the latest version. The whole process is pretty straightforward. Remember to use a dedicated user that has all the privileges instead of the root user.

There's more…

If you want to check whether MySQL is running fine, use one of the following commands:

service mysql status
netstat -anp | grep mysql

After the MySQL server installation is finished, you can log in on the shell using the following command:

mysql -u root -p

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