Here is what I usually do: Always develop with error_reporting on. Always develop with isDeveloperMode set to true. Just add SetEnv MAGE_IS_DEVELOPER_MODE 1 to your httpd.conf file (or corresponding ...

There is no more skin folder but you can still use themes. As a proof of concept I used you example with op-checkout-method.js and this this. Preconditions: Magento2-beta11 installed Default ...

Based on @Flyingmana's answer I did a little digging and come up with a solution. It seams to work for me. First my solution, then some explanations. I've created a file called test.php in the root of ...

If you are trying this from a controller that extends Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action you can get the request with $this->getRequest()->getPost(). If you are in a custom class, you need to ...

Most (if not all) the collections extend Varien_Data_Collection_Db. Here are the 2 methods from this class public function getSize() { if (is_null($this->_totalRecords)) { $sql = $this-...

you can add to the constructor of your class an instance of \Magento\Eav\Model\Config like this: protected $eavConfig; public function __construct( ... \Magento\Eav\Model\Config $eavConfig, ...

In magento 2 there is no more core/session. There are these ones though (may be others also): \Magento\Backend\Model\Session \Magento\Catalog\Model\Session \Magento\Checkout\Model\Session \Magento\...

There are different kind of indexes in Magento. All of the indexers are there to make things run faster. I will cover here only a few of them. Flat Index There are 2 such indexes. One for ...

You should never use \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance(). It defeats the purpose of dependency injection. We're back at Mage::getModel(). Object manager should be used only in ...

You need to create a new extension to make it clean. Let's call the extension StackExchange_Customer. You will need the following files: app/etc/modules/StackExchange_Customer.xml - the declaration ...

You need to inject in your class constructor an instance of \Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime\DateTime and use that one. Something like this: protected $date; public function __construct( .... ...

You need to create a new module. Let's call it Easylife_Meta. app/etc/modules/Easylife_Meta.xml - the declaration file <?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <...

In addition to your code put this: $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product') ->setStoreId($store_id) ->setBrand($brand_value); // not loading the product - ...

it says in the documentation you linked, this: This command works only with modules defined as Composer packages. If you did not install the module via composer, it won't work. You can only ...

Actually getAllIds is the best way of doing it. For example in the product collection resource model the method looks like this: public function getAllIds($limit = null, $offset = null) { $...

This is exactly the purpose of {{depend}} and {{if}}. The only difference between them is that {{if}} supports an {{else}} statement. {{depend}} is just as an {{if}} without an {{else}}. To see how ...

basically containers are the equivalent of the core/text_list blocks in magento 1. "philosophically" they work the same, the only difference is that containers are predefined blocks that only support ...

Give this a try and see if it fits: $collection->addAttributeToFilter('name', array( array('like' => '% '.$needle.' %'), //spaces on each side array('like' => '% '.$needle), //space ...

you need to add this to the constructor of your class protected $authSession; public function __construct( .... \Magento\Backend\Model\Auth\Session $authSession, .... ) { .... $...

[EDIT] Apparently, in latest versions of M2 this does not work anymore. Thanks to Max for pointing this out. For later version you need to add a plugin for Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Topmenu instead of ...

The installer won't run again if it was already executed. Removing the record from setup_module with module = 'MyVendor_Helpdesk' should make it run again.

For this, I suggest using the data folder of one of your custom modules. Let's say that the module is currently at version 1.0.4. Create the file data/[module]_setup/data-upgrade-1.0.4-1.0.5.php with ...

setData overrides the existing data and can receive as parameter either a pair key-value either an array. if you set as parameters a pair key-value then $_data[key] becomes value. If you set as ...

You should not use helper calls directly in the template. Have your helper instance provided as a dependency to the block that renders the template and create a method in your block that calls the ...

Step 1 Build an array with your new website ids. $websiteIds = array(5,6,7); Step 2 Now get all the product ids. $productIds= Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection')->getAllIds()...

General usage of "script type" When using <script type="...."> the browser interprets only what it knows (like text/javascript for example). Anything else is ignored. Basically using a custom ...

In a template file, $block and $this->_currentBlock are the same thing. Take a look at the render method in the Php.php template engine. Before including the template file, this happens: $this-&...

Here is what I've done. I removed the shipping step and used a default shipping method that I know is always going to be available. Not sure if this is what you need but you can at least use it as a ...

The fastest way is to do direct selects and inserts/updates in the database, but that's not the safest. You can easily break stuff. I use the Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_action')->...

Part 1 For the purpose of this demo I'm going to create a module, let's name it Easylife_News that contains an entity named Article. The module comes with complete CRUD code for backend, including ...