Martin Schultheiß mschultheiss83

Magento Code Snippets

Download extension manually using mage

./mage config-set preferred_state stable
./mage clear-cache
./mage sync
./mage download community Module_Name

Sass/Less Comparison

In this document I am using Sass's SCSS syntax. You can choose to use the indented syntax in sass, if you prefer it, it has no functional differences from the SCSS syntax.

For Less, I'm using the JavaScript version because this is what they suggest on the website. The ruby version may be different.

Variables

Debugging (Resource) Model Instantiation

Follow each step manually and any bugs during (resource) model instantiation will become obvious.

Since many people find model and resource model instantiation to be one of the more challenging things in Magento 1, these are all the steps Magento does to resolve the factory name to the real PHP class name.

To debug, simply follow each step manually until you find a non-match. This works really well in my experience.
Less guessing, more and faster results.

In the examples I use a factory name of "example/thing".

How-to generate PDF from Markdown

From: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2012/01/how-to-generate-pdf-markdown/

Gimli Gimli is an utility that was explicitly written with GitHub in mind.

Gimli is written in Ruby, so let's install it the Ruby way:

	delimiter ;;
	drop procedure if exists build_catalog;;
	create procedure build_catalog(IN categories INT, IN products INT)
	begin
	SET @category_count = 1;
	SET @CATNAMEPREFIX = "Category ";
	SET @CATURLKEYPREFIX = "cat-";
	SET @CATURLPATHPREFIX = "catpath-";
	SET @ROOTCATEGORY = 2;
	SET @INCLUDEINMENU = 1;

	server {
	set $domain 'yourdomain.com';
	server_name $domain;
	root /home/$domain/public;
	access_log /home/$domain/logs/access.log;
	error_log /home/$domain/logs/error.log;

	# Cache static files for as long as possible
	location ~* \.(?:xml\|ogg\|mp3\|mp4\|ogv\|svg\|svgz\|eot\|otf\|woff\|ttf\|css\|js\|jpg\|jpeg\|gif\|png\|ico)$ {
	try_files $uri =404;

	...
	location ~ .php$ {
	...
	## Magento 2 Developer mode
	fastcgi_param MAGE_MODE "developer";
	...
	}
	...

	<?php
	/**
	* Input string parser that keeps variable keys in their original state.
	*
	* Input string keys containing '-','.',' ' are replaced by PHP with parse_str or $_POST
	* with '_'. So &I+have+a+space=value becomes array('I_hava_a_space'=>'value')
	*
	* With InputStrParser->parseCharacterSafe('I+have+a+space=value') becomes
	* array('I hava a space'=>'value')
	*