Quick Tip

Short, actionable development tips you can apply right away to solve common problems.

Magento 2, Quick Tip

Retrieving orders using the Magento 2 API

Recently i had to fetch order information using the Magento 2 API, and to be more specific: The latest orders with a specific status. This turned out to be a bit harder than i initially expected. Magento has some pretty good documentation on this subject, but i still needed a little bit tinkering to get the right result.
June 4th, 2019
Conditionally hide show block Magento 2
Magento 2, Layout XML, Quick Tip

Conditionally hide or show a block in Magento 2

Somehow i only found about this little gem only recently. In your layout xml you can use the ifconfig parameter to hide or show block depending on your configuration. It works as following.
May 14th, 2019
Controller, Magento 2, Quick Tip

Download a file in a controller in Magento 2

Today i had to create a file download from a Magento 2 controller. I turnes out that this is quite simple. Now, it's good to know that there are 2 options here.
April 15th, 2019
Magento, Quick Tip

Flush Magento Cache vs Flush Cache Storage

This is question is asked and answered on Stack Overflow before, but it always surprises me how many people still don't know the difference. The difference is quite simply though.
March 18th, 2019
Magento, Ngrok, Quick Tip, Tooling

Share your local Magento environment with the world

Sometimes you need to share your local Magento environment with the world. This may be to share it with someone, to test it on a real phone, or to test some kinds of API response, for example.
March 4th, 2019
Composer, Laravel, Magento, Valet Plus+, Quick Tip, Tooling

Install Magento 2 with one command (Valet+ only)

For my daily work as a freelancer i tend to use a lot of disposable environments: I use them to check a bug in that specific version for example, and them throw them away. Setting up Magento can be a lengthy process, but with this one liner i can bring it down to ~10 minutes, depending on you internet & cpu speed. It installs the required Magento version including sample data.
February 22nd, 2019
Magento 2, Quick Tip, Tooling

My Magento 2 workflow

When people share their workflow/tools i love to read them as it gives me the option to improve mine. I think i currently have a pretty decent workflow which allows me to develop faster than ever. I wanted to share this flow with you so everyone can use it.
January 16th, 2019
Direct Admin, NGINX, Quick Tip

Redirect a domain to https with nginx in Direct Admin

I always forget how to redirect a domain from http -> https when i'm in Direct Admin.
January 14th, 2019
Continuous Deployment, Quick Tip

Creating SSH keys using PHP

So in my day-to-day development I like to use Continuous Deployment for every project where I can. Continuous Deployment means that every time I push a commit to master, the latest version of master will automatically be deployed to my production environment. This makes my development cycle way faster, and it makes sure that I don''t have any basic problems, like handling untracked changes in production. It just works.
December 20th, 2018
Magento, Quick Tip

Disabling all non Magento modules in Magento 2

Recently I was working on a Magento 2 webshop. It had a bug that, when you visited the order grid, you would get an exception. It was very generic; from the exception trace it was not possible to find the source. When I had similar problems in Magento 1, the first step I would take was to disable all non‑Magento modules. This was simple: just move the XML files of the module you wanted disabled out of the app/etc/modules directory and you're done.
October 30th, 2017
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