Magento: Guides and Practical Know-how | Page 53 | mironsoft Blog
Magento
-
Feb 12, 2025
When sales and marketing see different customer data in the CRM than support sees in Magento, that costs trust and revenue. A well designed CRM synchronization with a clear strategy for batch, realtime and event processing keeps accounts, addresses and segments reliably aligned across both systems.
-
Feb 12, 2025
PhpStorm ships with a full featured database client that replaces TablePlus, phpMyAdmin or DBeaver for most development tasks. Set up connections, write SQL with autocompletion, visualize schemas and create dumps, all without leaving the IDE and with direct context to the open PHP file.
-
Feb 12, 2025
In most Magento 2 projects the Block vs. Template decision is made intuitively, rarely with a clear rationale. The result is fat Block classes full of business logic, templates with direct model calls, and code that cannot be tested in isolation. This article shows what actually belongs in a Block class, what belongs in the phtml template, and how ViewModels resolve the separation cleanly in modern Magento 2.4.8 and Hyva projects.
-
Feb 11, 2025
Once the customer scrolls past the original add-to-cart button, a lean sticky add to cart bar takes over at the bottom of the screen. With x-intersect instead of a custom scroll listener, this pattern can be implemented performantly and without layout thrashing, in sync with variant selection and quantity in the main form.
-
Feb 9, 2025
Requisition Lists are the B2B tool for repeat customers who regularly order the same line items, with their own data model, their own API, and a clear functional distinction from wishlists. Building a custom frontend integration means knowing how the data model is structured, which API operations are available, and where the default feature reaches its limits.
-
Feb 9, 2025
Duplicated test data in every setUp, magic arrays in DataProviders, and hardcoded IDs scattered across hundreds of test classes. These are the typical signs of a test suite without a clear data organization strategy. The Builder pattern, fixture classes and factory methods bring order without overengineering.
-
Feb 7, 2025
A significant share of all zero result searches happens not because the product is missing, but because customer and catalog use different words for the same thing, or a typo sends the search into a dead end. Search synonyms and spell correction in Magento close exactly this gap, once Search Synonym Groups, token filters and fuzzy matching work together cleanly.
-
Feb 6, 2025
Customer Groups are the central mechanism in Magento 2 for steering pricing and visibility by customer segment: from wholesale pricing to hidden B2B catalogs to per-group tier prices. Combining Catalog Price Rules, Tier Pricing, visibility plugins and Shared Catalog correctly lets teams model complex B2B and B2C pricing logic without fragile checkout hacks, provided they stay on top of reindex cycles, scoping mistakes and the special role of the NOT LOGGED IN group.
-
Feb 6, 2025
A rollback that only gets written once things break is not a rollback at all. If the rollback script is not finished before the first deployment, it will be tested for the first time under pressure and stress, exactly when everything needs to happen fast.
-
Feb 6, 2025
Every additional second of load time in the checkout demonstrably costs revenue, especially on mobile devices with a weak connection. Checkout performance in Magento 2 depends on concrete, measurable areas: totals calculation, the number of redundant API calls, session storage, and external services such as fraud checks or shipping cost calculation.