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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide Build better stores by extending Magento

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343441
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Magento Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Entities 3. Understanding Web APIs 4. Building and Distributing Extensions 5. Developing for Admin 6. Developing for Storefront 7. Customizing Catalog Behavior 8. Customizing Checkout Experiences 9. Customizing Customer Interactions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the size guide

We have been asked to add a functionality that shows the size guide on a product view page. This is to appear as a new tab next to the existing Details, More Information, and Reviews tabs. The content of the size guide tab is to be the same for all products containing the size attribute. We also need it to be editable from Magento admin.

Let's take a moment to think about our approach here:

  • To be the same for all products and editable from Magento admin needs the CMS block
  • The CMS block needs setup script for creating the size guide block
  • To Appear as a new tab next to the existing tabs requires a catalog_product_view.xml layout update

Assuming we have defined registration.php, composer.json, and etc/module.xml as basic module files, we can deal with the more specific details of our Magelicious_Catalog module.

We start by defining <MODULE_DIR...

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