Tag: Magento

I’m a bit late but I was quite active on the Magento StackExchange recently, so here are the best posts from last week!

Magento 1 answers

• Maarten Wolfsen found a nice trick to add header elements like CSS files at the end for all pages: CSS file is loaded too early
• Loading children of a category including disabled categories: Get Disabled Category Collection (Hint: you cannot use getChildren() for this)
• A practical example for increment models (order numbers should be incremented by 4 each time): How to set order increment id iterator in magento 1?
• Canonical answer for transactional emails: How to send mail from custom module?
• Canonical answer for controller overrides: Magento 1 : how to override/rewrite a core controller class?

PHPUnit

• In phpunit anything matcher inside array I show a possible way to use PHPUnit matcher objects like anything() in arrays passed to assertEquals()

New Magento 2 questions

• Indexer “updated” column not updated?
• Reasons to setup cronjob for setup:cron:run and update/cron.php on a deployed production system?

Short and sweet: StackExchange posts of the last two weeks.

Magento 1

• How it is possible to filter by final price: addAttributeToFilter not working with final_price
• Does it make sense to load a single item using collections? Difference in performance between load and using collections
• Not directly my answer but it deserves some more attention: Store code in URL for every store view except for default (the KISS way)
• What should you do if SQL queries start appearing in the search suggestions: Spam bots & SQL Injections – How do I stop this?
• Good question: What does the “persistent shopping cart” actually do? I’m not so sure anymore: Does Persistent Shopping Cart work for guest (unlogged) visitors?
• I had some trouble triggering the EE URL indexer, not happy with the solution yet: Force URL indexation in Magento 1 Enterprise
• The attempt for a canonical question: How do I override/rewrite a block class in Magento 1? The answers so far already cover a good deal

Magento 2

• Interesting idea: let proxy decide at runtime which concrete class to instantiate: Magento 2 Dependency Injection: Lazy Load with Resolution of Concrete Class-Name

I was active on Magento StackExchange again, here are a few interesting questions and answers from the last three weeks:

Magento 1

• (Why) do we need these ugly ___store and ___from_store URL parameters? M1: Remove “?___store=default” from the URL. And isn’t it at least possible to make them look nicer (“SEO friendly”)? Optimise URL when changing Store and language switcher to maintain SEO standards
• One question, three completely different approaches: how to add default products to related products list
• Sounds easy, but isn’t quite straightforward: Exclude Category when showing product collection

Magento 2

• A dirty hack, but very useful for development: Add same plugin to all public methods of a type
• Since Magento 2.1, creating own category attributes gets remarkably more complex: Add category attribute to custom attribute group. And this is how it looks with a source model: Create multiselect with source model in UI component
• I’m unsatisfied with the catalog service contracts again… “Call to a member function getIsInStock() on null” with getExtensionAttributes()->getStockItem() (or: How do I get products with stock info from the repository?)

Magento Architecture

Good question for understanding “MVC” in Magento: Why does Magento need blocks?. There was a similar question once here: Where’s The V in Magento’s MVC? And is there better name?