You may have recently wondered how to get a specific custom variable in Magento 2. The old way of doing this in Magento 1 looked similar to this. In Magento 2 we need to add the correct class to our constructor. Then in our custom function, we can get the values of our custom variable like so.…
This tutorial will hopefully help you better understand how to invalidate certain private data when a user performs a certain request. This is done by using the Knockout syntax. First, let’s create a file called reload.js and place it in your web/js/ folder. Next, let’s create a file called PersonalData.php and place it in the root of…
If you have been looking at Magento 2 closely you are probably wondering where the etc/modules folder went and how to declare your custom module. In the previous version of Magento, we would simply let Magento know that our module exists by adding an .xml file directly in the modules folder. This in turn told…
Reindexing Magento 2 Tables Using Shell In this tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to reindex Magento 2 using the command line. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will be reindexing Magento’s New Index Management tables. Let’s begin. Go ahead and SSH into the site where your Magento 2 installation resides.…