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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

You're reading from   Magento 2 Developer's Guide Harness the power of Magento 2 to extend and customize your online store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785886584
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Platform Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing the Environment 3. Programming Concepts and Conventions 4. Models and Collections 5. Using the Dependency Injection 6. Plugins 7. Backend Development 8. Frontend Development 9. The Web API 10. The Major Functional Areas 11. Testing 12. Building a Module from Scratch Index

The custom product types


Magento provides the following six out-of-the-box product types:

  • Simple products

  • Configurable products

  • Grouped products

  • Virtual products

  • Bundle products

  • Downloadable products

Each product has its specifics. For example, the virtual and downloadable products do not have the weight attribute. Therefore, they are excluded from the standard shipping calculations. With custom coding around built-in product types, by using observers and plugins we can achieve almost any functionality. However, this is not enough sometimes or there is no solution to the requirement. In cases such as these, we might need to create our own product type that will match the project requirements in a more streamlined way.

Let's create a miniature module called Foggyline_DailyDeal that will add a new product type to Magento.

Start by creating a module registration file named app/code/Foggyline/DailyDeal/registration.php that has the following partial content:

\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar...
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