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Magento Extensions Development
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Magento Extensions Development

Chapter 2. Deeper Extension Development

The previous chapter taught us the basics of extension development. In this chapter, we will see how powerful your code can be, by providing for future users some useful forms in the admin area and a user-friendly interface in the frontend. This is the only good way to make your extension different: offering the best experience to your customers and their customers.

Briefly, we will cover the following:

  • Creating the backend forms to manage events
  • Designing the TicketBlaster module's frontend

Creating the backend forms to manage events

In the previous chapter, we wrote all the code to store event data in our specific module's table. We can now list our events, but we cannot create or edit them. Test yourself by clicking on the Add New Event button; you will be redirected to the dashboard. We are therefore going to create our events by performing the following steps:

  1. Create the [extension_path]/Controller/Adminhtml/Event/NewAction.php file and add this code:
    <?php
    
    namespace Blackbird\TicketBlaster\Controller\Adminhtml\Event;
    
    class NewAction extends \Magento\Backend\App\Action
    {
        /**
         * @var \Magento\Backend\Model\View\Result\Forward
         */
    protected $resultForwardFactory;
    
        /**
         * @param \Magento\Backend\App\Action\Context $context
         * @param \Magento\Backend\Model\View\Result\ForwardFactory $resultForwardFactory
         */
    public function __construct(
            \Magento\Backend\App\Action\Context $context,
            \Magento\Backend\Model\View\Result\ForwardFactory...

Designing the TicketBlaster module's frontend

Ok, now we can create events, except that we cannot show them to our customers!

We will see that the layout can be prepared and packaged in the extension in order to provide the best integration for customers.

Declaring the layouts

The following steps show how to declare layouts:

  1. Create the [extension_path]/view/frontend/layout/events_index_index.xml file and add the following code:
    <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
    <referenceContainer name="content">
    <block class="Blackbird\TicketBlaster\Block\EventList" name="event.list" template="Blackbird_TicketBlaster::list.phtml" />
    </referenceContainer>
    </body>
    </page>

    Note

    This layout file adds the block to list our events in the main container of...

Summary

The use of layouts is a very important piece of development with Magento, which adds a lot of possibilities for extending your extension further. You can define new templates and create specific pages as we have done, or override and rewrite core layouts to reorganize Magento pages.

We have seen how to add a complete backend solution to handle our specific needs.

Finally, all our code has been shared on https://bitbucket.org/ and https://packagist.org/ , and each update is with comments thanks to Git.

In the next chapter, we will cover more advanced topics, such as custom product types; we will look at a set of best practices for scaling our module in a high-load environment; and we will think about the security of our data.

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Key benefits

  • Deploy a complete real-world extension step by step
  • Construct your extension with the best and most up-to-date development methods
  • Learn about team working and code sharing

Description

Magento has been revealed as the best and the most popular open source e-commerce platform in the world, with about 250k+ online stores. Magento 2 is the most recent version of this awesome toolset: every new and modern development techniques are used to offer a real modular approach and powerful architecture. The book will support you in the writing of innovative and complex extensions. Starting from the beginning, we will cover how to set up a development environment that allows you to be really efficient in your functionality writing, including GIT registering and many other development tools. We then move on to provide a large overview of the best practices to scale your module in a high-load environment. After these foundations, you will see how to use test driven-development (TDD) and unit tests to handle your code. We then build a complex extension together, step by step, and internationally-ready. Next, you will find out how to protect the users’ data. Finally, we will take a look a publishing the extension on the new Magento Connect marketplace and how to protect your intellectual property. After you read this book, you will know everything you need to know to become an invaluable extension editor, whether it is for your customers’ needs or for your own requirements.

Who is this book for?

If you want to write a specific customization or a large new and full-featured extension on Magento 2, this book is intended for you. You must be an intermediate to professional-level developer in PHP to appreciate this book.

What you will learn

  • Build a fully-functional complex extension to add new functionality to Magento
  • Register your code with GIT and work with your team
  • Write new layouts and templates
  • Set up a fully configurable grid and forms in the backend
  • Create code unit tests and run them through TDD
  • Propose localized contents
  • Develop optimized extensions for a high-load environment
  • Publish extensions on the Magento Connect Marketplace

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
1. Introduction to Extension Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Deeper Extension Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Best Practices and Scaling for the Web Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Magento and Test-driven Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Internationalization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Optimizing for Speed and Measuring Conversion Rates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Module Creation Etiquette Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Optimization for Teamwork Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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