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…