There are plenty of options to run the LAMP stack for local development on Mac, and MAMP Pro is one of easiest to configure and use. However, when it comes to Magento 2 configuration, neither one seems simple and easy. Of course, for Magento 2 development environment, we could use Read more…
With Magento 2, even the trivial task of adding a custom attribute to a Customer can become quite challenging. Today I spent significant time to trace the issue and resolve it, so I want to share my experience with all current and future generations of Magento 2 developers to help Read more…
In Magento 1, when we wanted to override a specific method from the Core, we usually needed to rewrite Core class in our module. Magento 2 introduced a new possibility for overriding core functionality without causing potential rewrite conflicts. It is called “Plugins”. For the purpose of this article, let’s Read more…
There is no need to create a Magento custom module structure from the scratch manually. Using this great tool helps to make module creation process faster: https://github.com/netz98/n98-magerun2 1. download and install n98-magerun2 as described on above link. 2. navigate to Magento root directory using the terminal. 3. running command: $ Read more…
Hi Dear reader! You may be wondering why I am writing yet another article about xDebug installation on Mac OSX, but in fact, I am writing this more because of myself as I want to remember the easiest way on how to build and install custom xDebug without additional troubles Read more…
Hi. To be honest, I just started to investigate Magento 2 and it’s structure these days. As a starting point, I decided to follow this great article by Ash Smith about Creating Simple Magento 2 Controller Module. And everything was just fine until the moment I needed to render the Read more…
Like in SOAP web services, Magento REST API also offers some kind of filtering results as part of REST web services. We have several possibilities available as described on the official website. Let’s show sample REST request made to Magento (without filters): (Skipping part how we get oAuth token and Read more…
Ever needed to add one additional hold status in Magento? For example: Let’s say that we have some order processing logic integrated with third-party shipping provider. We make API call and it fails. If we put an order on regular onHold status, it will mix up with orders that are Read more…
When we talk about Magento, we should try to optimize site loading speed as much as possible. Sometimes the block caching is not enough and we should also use collection caching to achieve best results. Here is a simple way to use the cached collection in Magento. Let’s add this Read more…
Hi, I suppose that most of you had some situation when logging is turned On on high traffic Magento site. If you need to check the logs using FTP access, sometimes that could be a time – consuming task because log files are large and we need to wait to Read more…