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Magento 2 Cookbook

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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating system configuration fields


In Magento, it is possible to store configuration values for global/website or store in the backend. These values can be used to store simple module settings such as API -keys, module enable/disable options, or any setting that you might require for your module. The data is stored in the core_config_data table.

Getting ready

As the configuration fields are only accessible through the backend web pages, the configuration file is stored in the etc/adminhtml directory.

How to do it…

Create your own configuration options with the following step:

  1. Create the system configuration file:

    etc/adminhtml/system.xml

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Config:etc/system_file.xsd">
      <system>
        <section id="sample" translate="label" type="text" sortOrder="2000" showInDefault="1" showInWebsite="1" showInStore="1">
          <label>Sample Configuration...