Monthly Archives: August 2022

Would you like to learn about Test Driven Development and become a better PHP developer? 

“Test-driven development” refers to a style of programming in which three activities are tightly interwoven:

• Coding
• Testing (in the form of writing unit tests)
• Design (in the form of refactoring)

It can be briefly described by the following set of rules:

• write a “single” unit test describing an aspect of the program
• run the test, which should fail because the program lacks that feature
• write “just enough” code, the simplest possible, to make the test pass
• “refactor” the code until it conforms to the simplicity criteria
• repeat, “accumulating” unit tests over time

Magento 2 is a modern PHP-based eCommerce framework. And as with every framework, it provides a command-line interface for performing different operations with the system. It includes installing a website, enabling additional plugins, modifying data, and performing maintenance activities such as caching, security, and performance-related commands. Magento 2 consists of a so-called Magento CLI that stands for Magento Command Line Interface that ships together with Magento 2.

How to run Magento 2 CLI with PHP?

Learn in the course: https://bit.ly/3SWKZ1I 

Weekly digest of the best e-commerce articles 

What happened this week?

• Mage Mastery wrote about seven skills that will help you survive 2022
• Shri Kanase told about ways to find keywords with Google Ads
• Max Pronko described ten types of trigger emails and an email marketing strategy for online stores

Learn more about eCommerce below!

General

Seven skills that will help you survive 2022 by Mage Mastery

Hi! Check the new Magento tutorials:

• How to add Custom Field and save value in Product Attribute add form?
• How to add validation in system configuration in Magento 2?
• How to reset Magento 2 Admin password?

Just click through the links and stay abreast of the latest news from the Magento universe!  

In addition, browse the previous Magento Tech Digest #204.

Migration to Magento 2 by Max Pronko

The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2025 half of the world's specialists will need retraining. About which skills will help you survive on the other side of the world and find a job - we have collected your insights from the reports of leading companies.

#1. Digital Education

UK's Department of Digital Technologies states that 82% of UK job vacancies mention the importance of digital skills. In addition, the relationship is between the skill mastery level and the offered salary.

The demand for digital skills is growing, and this applies not only to IT companies. However, reinstalling Windows or signing up for LinkedIn is not digital literacy. Nowadays, in addition to knowledge of Microsoft Word, companies require:

• knowledge

Happy 31st Independence Day, Ukraine!

Independence Day today means not only the 31st anniversary but also six months of the indomitability of the Ukrainian people. We sincerely believe that the victory will happen very soon.

After that, we will celebrate August 24 as the Independence Day of the whole of Europe.

We urge you to support the Ukrainian people to bring this day closer. You can do it through aid funds.

The Return Alive Foundation is one of the largest private foundations funded by the military. Since the beginning of a full-scale war, people have raised more than 2.7 billion hryvnias and $24 million in cryptocurrency. In the first three weeks, the fund raised 100 more than last year.

Did you know four ways to load data in a Magento 2?

There are different ways to load data from a Database Table in Magento 2. In this video, we want to walk through these different ways and share our experiences with you.

As you know, three main classes are created for each entity if this entity has to be stored in a database.

So these are:

• resource model
• repository class
• collection.

How to work with them? Learn in the tutorial.

Weekly digest of the best e-commerce articles 

Ready to start this week? Get the new eCommerce tips:

• 15 tips for improvement of website usability
• Building a 7 figure eCommerce business
• Structure of an eCommerce financial model

Check Magento 2 tutorials:

• Magento 2 Project Overview for Beginner Developers
• Passing Data From Controller to Template
• Automatic change of product types in Magento 2

General

15 tips for improvement

Sometimes, for one reason or another, content managers need to convert a particular product from Simple to Virtual or vice versa and change its set attribute. So on. Most often, this falls on the shoulders of developers.

Magento 2 has a feature to achieve this. Before you get to grips with it (I'll call it "auto conversion"), there are a few things you need to keep in mind to get the right results.

Auto conversion from the user's point of view

Let's look at the admin panel from the point of view of the content manager. You can select the type of new product before you create it.

In Magento 1, this is on the Admin > Catalog > Manage Products > Set attribute and product type selection page after clicking on "Add Product."

Hello! That is Magento 2 Project Overview for all developers who are new to Magento 2. We’re going to review: 

• Project Structure; 
• Files and directories; 
• Required tools for the development.

Finally, we’ll find out where we can write our Magento 2 Custom Code.

Watch the video here.