Just a quick note for myself. If we need to find duplicated values for a specific attribute (in this case attribute “taxvat” for the entity “customer” (for Magento 1): First of all, we need to know the attribute id of our attribute code: And then we execute the following query Read more…
Recently we converted a 10 years old Magento single store to a Magento Multi Store. We wanted to add English language (original language was Spanish). We did this by creating a new store, asigning the code /es/ to the Spanish store and /en/ to the English store. To avoid SEO Read more…
One of my favourite things I learned working at Smile was using LXC for development. It’s different from Docker in the sense that you don’t configure services and things like that: you just create a exact copy of the environment you’re going to have in production, with all its services Read more…
There are a lot of articles on Internet proposing the deletion of all categories using a sql query. I’ve tested one of them and I’ve run into several problems due to this (url keys not deleted correctly, deletion of the Default category…). There is a safer way, using Magento tools. Read more…
When calling the function $block->getProduct() in a quote item in the cart page, Magento 2 will return the product and its basic attributes. The attributes that can be retrieved from the product when calling this function in a quote_item page can be found in the file vendor/magento/module-sales/etc/catalog_attributes.xml. From your own Read more…
It’s pretty easy when you have the eavSetup in your setup module. It’s only necessary to execute: For example, if I want to change the ‘position’ field value of the ‘price’ product attribute:
It might be tricky if you want to create a multiselect product attribute in Magento 2. For that, it’s necessary to pass the correct backend model: if you don’t do it your attribute will be created but the values won’t be saved. Taking this Inchoo article as a basis, you Read more…
[Edited] I’ve updated the article to do this in a better way Recently I had to do something I thought it was simple to do: add the category images to the navigation menu. However, Magento doesn’t use a template to draw the whole menu but a function that will retrieve Read more…
Getting the “current product” in Magento 2 is trickier than it was in Magento 1. However, it is like that for a reason: Mage:: is a thing from the past, no more accessing to everything from everywhere (someone I know would say: “this is not logic at all”). That’s the Read more…
Recently I wanted to remove a field from a form object. It was easy, we need to know 2 things: Fieldset name (‘main’ by default) Field name With this information we can just update the form object with: <?php $this->getForm()->removeField(‘password_fieldset’); ?>