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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By : Branko Ajzele
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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

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By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

Magento is an open-source, enterprise-level e-commerce platform with unlimited scope for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for vendors but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more ?exible and profitable Magento stores. You start with a structural overview of the key Magento development components. You will learn where things such as plugins, events, models, controllers, layouts, and UI components ft into the development landscape. You will go through examples of using these components to extend Magento. As you progress, you will be building a diverse series of small but practical Magento modules. By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid foundation in the Magento development architecture; but you will also have practical experience in developing modules to customize and extend Magento stores.
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Creating the size guide

We have been asked to add a functionality that shows the size guide on a product view page. This is to appear as a new tab next to the existing Details, More Information, and Reviews tabs. The content of the size guide tab is to be the same for all products containing the size attribute. We also need it to be editable from Magento admin.

Let's take a moment to think about our approach here:

  • To be the same for all products and editable from Magento admin needs the CMS block
  • The CMS block needs setup script for creating the size guide block
  • To Appear as a new tab next to the existing tabs requires a catalog_product_view.xml layout update

Assuming we have defined registration.php, composer.json, and etc/module.xml as basic module files, we can deal with the more specific details of our Magelicious_Catalog module.

We start by defining <MODULE_DIR...

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