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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By : Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world’s leading brands. Using Magento’s powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done. This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website. We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override. Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Form component


Until now we have presented components that take care of all the data grid exhibition with regard to filtering, paging, navigation, and even functionality to temporary recording parameters (Bookmark). Beside all these elements that provide indispensable functionalities to a data grid, it is necessary to have a specific component that takes care of CRUD operations on specific elements of the grid. This is the Form component scope of action.

In the previous section of this chapter, it was possible to observe that the File uploader component integrates part of the Form component scope so that it is a common item to HTML forms.

The following components extend the functionalities of the Form component:

  • DataSource

  • FieldSet

  • Field

  • Layout

  • Container

To better understand this dynamic, make an analysis of the configuration file definition responsible for forms management of the customer module in Magento 2. Open the file <magento_root>/vendor/magento/module-customer/view/base/ui_component...