This article provides an introduction to API in Magento 2. Introduction to API API stands for Application Programming Interface. Application = any software with a distinct function Interface = a contract of service between two applications The applications communicate with each other via requests and responses. Client = the application sending the request Client application … Read more
This article shows different ways to add CSS and JS files in Magento 2. Add CSS & JS from Layout XML file In this example, we are adding JS and CSS via layout file in your custom module. app/code/YourCompany/YourModule/ view/frontend/layout/frontName_controllerName_actionName.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd"> <head> <!– local CSS file –> <css src="YourCompany_YourModule::css/custom.css"/> <!– local … Read more
This article shows how you can clean Fastly Cache or Varnish Cache by cache tags in Magento. Fastly has an observer that listens to the event clean_cache_by_tags. vendor/fastly/magento2/etc/events.xml (github) <event name="clean_cache_by_tags"> <observer name="flush_fastly_cdn" instance="Fastly\Cdn\Observer\InvalidateVarnishObserver"/> </event> The \Fastly\Cdn\Observer\InvalidateVarnishObserver class further calls the \Fastly\Cdn\Model\PurgeCache::sendPurgeRequest($pattern) method which finally cleans the Fastly Cache utilizing \Fastly\Cdn\Model\Api. Magento’s Cache_Invalidate module has … Read more
This article shows how you can clean cache by cache tags in Magento. use Magento\Framework\App\CacheInterface; class YourClassName { /** * @var CacheInterface */ protected $cache; /** … * @param CacheInterface $cache */ public function __construct( … CacheInterface $cache ) { … $this->cache = $cache; } /** * Clean Cache by Cache Tag * * @param … Read more
This article shows how you can enable or disable Magento Cache Programmatically. For this purpose, we will be using \Magento\Framework\App\Cache\Manager class. use Magento\Framework\App\Cache\Manager as CacheManager; class YourClassName { /** * @var CacheManager */ protected $cacheManager; /** … * @param CacheManager $cacheManager */ public function __construct( … CacheManager $cacheManager ) { … $this->cacheManager = $cacheManager; } … Read more
This article shows how you can get the list of all Cache Types in Magento and how you can clean and flush those Cache Types in Magento. Cache Types in Magento Magento has the following cache types: Configuration (config) Commerce collects configuration from all modules, merges it, and saves the merged result to the cache. … Read more
This article shows how we can search Magento Repositories using SearchCriteriaBuilder that implements SearchCriteriaInterface. An example is provided of how we can perform search on Product repository in Magento. Similarly, we can search for other entities like Category, Customer, Order, Invoice, CMS Page, CMS Block, etc. We can add different conditions to build custom search … Read more
This article shows some of the configuration settings and CLI commands that are useful for developers in their development environment. For example, enabling logging, enabling template path hints, disabling forced admin password change, etc. Disable password change From Magento admin Stores > Configuration > Advanced > Admin > Password Lifetime(days) = 0 Stores > Configuration … Read more
Template path hints and Block class hints are very useful features for debugging purposes in Magento. This feature helps you to know which template file is being used in any of the Magento pages. For example, third-party modules can override core template files of any page or any section like header, footer, etc. The template … Read more