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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By : Branko Ajzele
Book Image

Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Flagging new products

We have been asked to add a functionality that flags every new product shown on the storefront category view and product view pages with a [NEW] prefix in front of its name. New implies anything within the 5 days of the product's created_at value.

Luckily for us, we can easily control a product's name via an after plugin on a product's getName method. All it takes is to define an afterGetName plugin with a category view and product view pages constraint, further filtered by a created_at constraint.

To register the plugin, we start by creating the <MODULE_DIR>/etc/frontend/di.xml file with content, as follows:

<config>
<type name="Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductInterface">
<plugin name="newProductFlag" type="Magelicious\Catalog\Plugin\NewProductFlag"/>
</type>
</config>

We...