Super excited to start 2018 with the great collection of Magento resources for the last 6 weeks. In the Magento Tech Digest #8, you can find materials for PHP developers, JavaScript/Frontend developers willing to go to the next level with the Magento. The digest also contains video tutorials and step-by-step overviews of the Magento 2 functionality.

The Magento Tech Digest #8 is the biggest collection of links since I’ve started collecting and sharing them. Enjoy reading!

News and Updates

• Magento Community Engineering team has created new YouTube channel. This channel is dedicated to the updates around Community contributions to the Magento 2 project. Go follow the Magento Community Engineering YouTube Channel.
  

  The community engineering team now have a YouTube channel. We will be sharing our project meetings, tutorials and doing some live streaming. Back in the YouTube game! https://t.co/DSQbDrk9CX

  — David / MrFrogger Gaming (@mannersd) January 12, 2018

• Magento Master Spotlight: Alessandro Ronchi by Sherrie Rohde
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Matthias Zeis by Sherrie Rohde
• Future of Magento: Top 10 Magento Experts Share Predictions for 2018 by Elena Yantsan, and Vitaly Gonkov
• Community Engineering Update – November 2017 by David Manners
• Community Engineering Update – 2017 by David Manners

General

• Magento Coding Standards by Damir Korpar
• Magento Open Source 2.1 x Elasticsearch by Kenji Borile
• Layout XML Merging in Magento 2 by Alan Storm
• Community Collaboration With Magento Open Source II by Miguel Balparda
• Magento Security from Developer’s and Tester’s Points of View by Ksenia Dobreva

PHP

• How to delete spam customer accounts from Magento by Damir Serfezi
• Custom Database Connection on Magento 2 by Imran Shakil
• Magento 2 Custom module upgrade: PHP Serialized to JSON by Dmytro Cheshun
• A Couple of the More Interesting Bugs We Have Found Whilst Working With Magento 2 by Dan Cook
• An Introduction To Magento 2 Events And Observers by Fayyaz Khattak
• How to unset the Filter in Magento 2 admin Grid by Mr.Jute
• How to Get Category Collection in Magento 2? by BlogTreat
• Magento 2: How to Add Custom Header and Footer Links by BlogTreat
• Magento 2: Managing Navigation Links in Account Dashboard by BlogTreat
• Get Shopping Cart Data (Items, Subtotal, Grand Total, Billing & Shipping Address) in Magento 2? by BlogTreat
• Get Store Information in Magento 2 by BlogTreat
• Magento 2: How to Reindex via Command Line by BlogTreat
• Programmatically Create New Order in Magento by BlogTreat
• Magento 2: How to get Module, Controller, Action & Router Name by BlogTreat
• Magento 2: Add Extra Fee To Order Totals by BlogTreat
• How to Create Custom Log File in Magento 2 by BlogTreat
• Create Product Attribute with Drop Down Option in Magento 2 via InstallData.php by BlogTreat
• How to Get Select/Multiselect Attribute’s Options in Magento? by BlogTreat
• Magento: How to get module, controller, action and router name? by BlogTreat
• Create Custom Attribute Group & Product Attribute in Magento 2 via InstallData.php by BlogTreat
• How to Reindex Magento Indexes via SSH by BlogTreat
• Magento: Get Base Url, Skin Url, Media Url, Js Url, Store Url and Current Url by BlogTreat
• How to Create Custom Log with Mage::log() in Magento by BlogTreat
• How to Enable Template Path Hints for Magento Admin Panel by BlogTreat
• How to Add / Remove CSS and JS Files in Magento Theme by BlogTreat
• Importing wishlists to Magento step by step by Sergey Bogomaz
• How to Create Attribute and Attribute Set Programmatically in Magento 2 by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan
• Magento 1.9.3.7 / 1.14.3.7 / SUPEE-10415 Causing Every Page To 404 by Max Chadwick
• Magento Lesson #579: Don’t Use The Config For Flags by Max Chadwick
• Using Layout XML to Customize a Magento Theme by Sergey Samets
• Output Flushing in Magento 2. Magento Developer Certification by Gennadiy Haritonov
• Which Routers Exist in a Native Magento 1 and Magento 2 by Denis Natalevich
• Magento Output Flushing. Magento Developer Certification by Gennadiy Haritonov
• How to Set Tier Price Programmatically in Magento by MageComp
• How to Override “payment\methods.phtml” in Magento Custom Extension by MageComp
• How to Add Additional Options in Magento 2 by MageComp
• How to Send Magento 2 Generated Dynamic PDF in Email to Customers by MageComp
• How to Send Product Images in Order Transaction Mail to Customers in Magento 2 by MageComp
• How to Add Date & Time Picker in Magento System Configuration by MageComp
• How to fix “Unique constraint violation found” in Magento 2 Checkout Page After Migration by MageComp
• Selling Bundles the Right Way on Magento 2 by Zach Nanninga
• Creating a Shipping Method in Magento 2 by Richard Sisco
• Magento 2 – Log messages by MageMaster
• Magento 2 – use transaction to save objects by MageMaster

JavaScript

• Magento 2 Widgets – gallery widget explained – client testimonials showcase by Igor Tikvic
• Adding Voice Search to Magento 2 by Adrian Bece
• Node.js & the Magento 1.x REST API by Abe Flansburg
• Adding JavaScript via Layout in Magento by Sergey Samets
• How to Fix Cron Job Error While Magento 2 Upgrade by MageComp

Performance

• Configure Fastly on Magento 2 by Imran Shakil
• Magento 2 Elasticsearch Notes by Max Chadwick

Video

• MSI Open Demo. December 8, 2017 by Igor Minyaylo
• MSI Open Demo. December 16, 2017 by Igor Minyaylo
• MSI Open Demo. December 22, 2017 by Igor Minyaylo
• MSI Open Demo. January 5, 2018 by Igor Minyaylo. In this video you can learn about 1. CatalogSearch prototype working with different Stocks assigned to Websites. 2. Source Selection algorithm prototype used for Shipping from different sources
• MSI Open Demo. January 12, 2018 by Igor Minyaylo
• Import/Export Weekly call 3rd Jan 2018 by Magento Community Engineering.
• Import/Export Weekly call 12th Jan 2018 by Magento Community Engineering
• Magento 2 Kill EAV For Customers video courses Part 2 by Ibnab
• Magento 2 Kill EAV For Customers video courses Part 1 by Ibnab
• Magento 2 Tutorial – How To Upgrade to Magento 2 by terminal by Magento 2 Tutorial
• How to set up Magento 2 SMS Notification by Landof Coder
• Magento PWA: Are progressive web apps the future of eCommerce? by eCommerce-Aholic
• Magento B2B: The timing is right to capture market share by eCommerce-Aholic
• Meet Magento Romania 2017! | #MM17RO by Rebecca Brocton
• Install Magento 2 Theme/Extension with Magento Setup Wizard by Max Pronko
• Keeping your Magento2 fork up to date by David Manners
• Introduction to Magento 2 module development (by Joke Puts) by PHP Antwerp

Tools

• Magento 2 Module for Search Engine Optimization by Marcel Hauri

Interesting

Magento Community Engineering team initiated a new project. The project covers PHP 7.2 support for the next Magento 2.x release. If you want to join, feel free to read PHP 7.2 Support wiki page on the GitHub to be involved.

Finally

If you see a TYPO or would like to share a link for the next Magento Tech Digest please send me an email or comment below. Thank you.