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Magento 2 Development Cookbook
Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Magento 2 Development Cookbook: Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2

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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Chapter 2. Working with Products

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Configuring the catalog defaults
  • Working with attribute sets
  • Working with product types
  • Adding social media buttons
  • Embedding an HTML object
  • Changing the URL of a product page

Introduction

How products are displayed in the frontend is very important for making a web shop with good usability. Convincing the visitors to buy something from the shop is the main target of every shop owner.

Products need to be set in such a way that a visitor can quickly find what he is looking for. With good product content, a shop looks reliable, due to which a visitor is more likely to buy something.

In this chapter, we will explain what you can do to display products in your shop, and we will see some extra things, such as a video and add to cart links, to raise conversion from a prospective buyer to an actual buyer.

The goal of this chapter is to make your shop more user-friendly with just a little development.

Configuring the catalog defaults

One of the first things is to configure some default catalog settings to the preferred values. We will cover all the configuration values that are possible in a Magento 2 installation.

We will go through the available configurations and change some values to the recommended settings.

Getting ready

Open your frontend and log into the backend in a separate browser tab. We will modify some configuration values to the recommended settings. When changing a configuration value, we can check what happens in the frontend.

How to do it

In the next steps, we will take a look at the catalog settings:

  1. In the backend, navigate to Stores | Settings | Configuration. Open the Catalog menu, as we can see in the following screenshot:
    How to do it
  2. Open the Product Fields Auto-Generation section. In this section, we can configure the behavior of the generation of SKU and metadata. When we add the following values for the Mask for Meta Keywords, the SKU, name, and the string "Magento&quot...

Working with attribute sets

Magento has a flexible system to work with products. When you sell, for example, a board game or a computer, the specifications of each product are different. For a board game, information such as age and duration is relevant. For a computer, a lot of technical specifications are relevant, such as the CPU power, disc size, and so on.

To cover this, Magento 2 comes with a system called product templates, which can be compared with attribute sets in Magento 1.

A product template is a specification of product attributes that you can assign to products.

Getting ready

In the backend, we will use the pages Stores | Attributes | Product and Stores | Attributes | Attribute Set.

We will create a newproduct attribute and a new product template (such as an attribute set) that we can use in new products.

How to do it

In the following steps, we will create an extra product attribute that we can use in a product template:

  1. Navigate to Stores | Attributes | Product in the backend,...

Working with product types

In Magento 2, it is still possible to work with different types of products. The standard product is a simple product, which is used to sell basic products, but there are more types available, such as products, where you can choose a size and other options, or download products, virtual products (such as a license), and product combinations.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will create a configurable product, for example, you want to buy a pair of shoes where you can choose their size and color. Open the Magento backend and navigate to Products | Catalog.

How to do it

In the following steps, we will create a product where we can specify a size on the product detail page:

  1. Navigate to Products | Catalog, click on the arrow near the Add Product button, and choose Configurable Product as shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it
  2. Choose a name, SKU, and price for the product.
  3. The next step is to decide the attribute on which we want to configure our product. Scroll down through...

Adding social media buttons

These days, an increasing number of people are sharing their minds through different social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and many more.

Every social media platform has the option to share pages on their platform. The most famous examples of this are the share buttons, such as the Like button of Facebook, the Tweet button, the Google Plus button, and many more.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will add share buttons for the following platforms. You can take a look at the developer documentation of each platform as a preparatory step:

To show a button on every product page, we have to do some code changes. Ensure that you have access to the code with your IDE.

How to do it

The following steps show you how to add social media buttons to the description of your product:

  1. Open the page of the...

Embedding an HTML object

In a product description, we can add HTML tags so that we can use the <object> tag. With an <object> tag, we can embed widgets, such as a YouTube video, social widgets, and more.

In this recipe, we will focus on how to add a YouTube video in a product description.

Getting ready

Go to http://www.youtube.com, and choose a video that you want to show on the product detail page.

How to do it

The next steps shows you how to embed a YouTube video on a product detail page.

  1. On the YouTube video page, click on the Embed button. When you click this button, the following screen shows up:
    How to do it
  2. Copy the HTML code and paste it in the description of the product.
  3. Save the product.
  4. Go to the product in the frontend. You will see the video on the Product page.

How it works

The ability to use HTML tags in product descriptions gives a lot of flexibility for this field. It is possible to use a WYSIWYG editor for the content because this allows us to use widgets, such as a YouTube video...

Introduction


How products are displayed in the frontend is very important for making a web shop with good usability. Convincing the visitors to buy something from the shop is the main target of every shop owner.

Products need to be set in such a way that a visitor can quickly find what he is looking for. With good product content, a shop looks reliable, due to which a visitor is more likely to buy something.

In this chapter, we will explain what you can do to display products in your shop, and we will see some extra things, such as a video and add to cart links, to raise conversion from a prospective buyer to an actual buyer.

The goal of this chapter is to make your shop more user-friendly with just a little development.

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Key benefits

  • • Solve common problems encountered while extending your Magento 2 store to fit your business needs
  • • Delve into the exciting and enhanced features of Magento 2 such as customizing security permissions, intelligent filtered search options, easy third-party integration, among others
  • • Learn to build and maintain a Magento 2 shop via a visual-based page editor and customize the look and feel using Magento 2’s offerings on the go

Description

With the challenges of growing an online business, Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform with innumerable functionalities that gives you the freedom to make on-the-fly decisions. It allows you to customize multiple levels of security permissions and enhance the look and feel of your website, and thus gives you a personalized experience in promoting your business.

Who is this book for?

This book is for every developer who has knowledge of PHP and wants to extend or customize the functionality of their Magento 2 system. If you have prior experience of the Magento platform, you will find this book useful in exploring the advanced features.

What you will learn

  • • Install a Magento 2 shop with sample data
  • • Upgrade the data in a Magento 1 shop to a Magento 2 shop
  • • Manage the look and feel of the shop with custom themes
  • • Extend the shop with custom functionality such as forms, grids, and more
  • • Accelerate your store with some performance tools
  • • Build and structure your own shipping module
  • • Test your shop with automated tests and manage your product display

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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
1. Upgrading from Magento 1 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Working with Products Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Theming Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Creating a Module Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Databases and Modules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Magento Backend Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Creating a Shipping Module Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Creating a Product Slider Widget Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Performance Optimization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Debugging and Unit Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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mrGott Mar 15, 2016
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When you start with Magento you need a good handout, all-in-one resource that gets you started. Magento 2 Development Cookbook includes great recipes. After checking out the contents of the book I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it and put those recipes to work.In my opinion a great book is the one that covers all the basics, gives you good solid ground and code that will help you get started.Magento 2 Development Cookbook includes great recipes. It was very important to take a look on how to build a shipping module for Magento 2. Most of my clients use Georgian Post as their primary shipping method, hence I need a custom shipping module. And once again I would like to thank the author. None of the articles I have read have bothered to explain as much as this cookbook does. And the part I loved most was having ability to add Tracking Number. Actually it’s all you need with the shipping module.I also believe that this is a kind of a book that has to always stay on your desk or desktop, depending on whether it’s a hard copy or PDF. I’ll be using this as a handout which I’ll refer to in every single project, every time I’ll be building a theme or a module from ground up.I think that this one will be a good investment for anyone who wants to get started with Magento 2. It will help you right away, and will be helpful each time you are cooking for Magento 2.Last but not least, I have to mention - “who is this book for”?Magento 2 Development Cookbook covers lots of “how to do” stuff. I believe this book is for anyone. It’s for beginners and experienced developers. This book concentrates on code and specific examples. For me, as a developer it’s always more efficient to take a look at a code and read it. Eventually this book will save your time, a lot!
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Vinay Mar 04, 2016
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I like the book very much....Recommend it to everyone.
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Marius Dermiaha Jan 30, 2016
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From this book you should start learning Magento 2. I especially recommend it to people who are experienced Magento 1 and who want to quickly master new Magento version. In explaining the mechanisms Magento 2 often refers to their counterparts in the previous version. The book is written concisely and concretely. With things that could be improved it is in Chapter 6. "Magento Backend" in context of the creation of grid also adding CRUD operations associated with it and handle the relationship database. In summary, currently it is the best book of the basics Magento 2 for developers.
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ERIK THE READER Jan 19, 2016
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It's a great introduction to Magento 2 development environment especially because Magento 2 is the new version of this ecommerce platform and it's not backwards compatible with the Magento 1 versions. This means that we have a gamechange and many things we have to relearn in order to update our clients' sites to this new version. The first chapter tackles this process in case of the sample data site. Of course still few sites run Magento 2 but it's good idea to stay ahead with practical advices. This cookbook will save you time!
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hsuastegui Feb 04, 2016
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General overview but very useful if you are migrating from Magento 1 and need to quickly have an overview of changes. The Magento 2 Developer's Guide Magento 2 Developer's Guide has more in depth coverage for developers
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