I would like to import the Magento 2 sample data, but my Magento 2 was installed and setup already. Any wan I can use to import the Magento 2 sample data
You can use Magento 2 command line
sudo php bin/magento sampledata:deploy
sudo php bin/magento setup:upgrade
How can I get Magento 2 product’s status. e.g I would like to check if the Magento 2 product is disabled or not
Need to load Magento 2 product first and then call getStatus method to retrieve the status info of the Magento 2 product
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$productRepositoryInterface = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface');
$product = $productRepositoryInterface->getById($productId);
$status = $product->getStatus();I would like to create a PDF file, how can I generate PDF programmatically in Magento 2
To create a PDF file in Magento 2
| Step 1 | Define Zend_Pdf object and set page size |
| Step 2 | Set style and font for new Magento 2 PDF file |
| Step 3 | Draw content by called drawText, drawRectangle or other methods |
| Step 4 | Call class FileFactory and saving the content as Magento PDF file |
Here is the example to creating a PDF file in Magento 2
$pdf = new \Zend_Pdf();
$pdf->pages[] = $pdf->newPage(\Zend_Pdf_Page::SIZE_A4);
$page = $pdf->pages[0]; // this will get reference to the first page.
$style = new \Zend_Pdf_Style();
$style->setLineColor(new \Zend_Pdf_Color_Rgb(0,0,0));
$font = \Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName(\Zend_Pdf_Font::FONT_TIMES);
$style->setFont($font,15);
$page->setStyle($style);
$width = $page->getWidth();
$hight = $page->getHeight();
$x = 40;
$pageTopalign = 850; //default PDF page height
$y = $pageTopalign - 50;
$style->setFont($font,16);
$page->setStyle($style);
$page->drawText(__("Text Text"), $x + 5, $y+50, 'UTF-8');
$fileName = 'test.pdf';
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$fileFactory = $objectManager->get('Magento\Framework\App\Response\Http\FileFactory');
$fileFactory->create($fileName,$pdf->render(),\Magento\Framework\App\Filesystem\DirectoryList::VAR_DIR,'application/pdf');
I would like to know current version of Magento 2, which function can I call to get current Magento 2 version
For Magento 2.0.x
Can call AppInterface::VERSION to get current Magento 2.0.x version
echo \Magento\Framework\AppInterface::VERSION;
For Magento 2.1.x
Can use “ProductMetadataInterface” module to retrieve the current Magento 2.1 version
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$productMetadata = $objectManager->get('Magento\Framework\App\ProductMetadataInterface');
$version = $productMetadata->getVersion();How can I retrieve the Magento session value which I have saved in the past
You need to load Magento core/session object and call get method (based on what you have set when you are saving the Magento Session) to retrieve the Magento Session value
e.g
Saving the session value
Mage::getSingleton(“core/session”)->set[YOUR SESSION NAME](
Retrieving the session value
Mage::getSingleton(“core/session”)->get[YOUR SESSION NAME]();
Here is the example
Mage::getSingleton("core/session")->setYourValue("test");
$youvalue = Mage::getSingleton("core/session")->getYourValue();How can save data into a Magento session object
You need to load Magento core/session object and call setValue method to save data into a Magento session object
$value = "Your string";
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setValue($value);How can I get current Magento category and retrieve the category ID
You can use method “getCurrentCategory” to retrieve the current Magento category and use getId to find out the current Magento category ID
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory();
$id = $category->getId();How to remove Magento saved cache object
Need to load Magento cache object first and call “remove” method to remove by cache key
$cache = Mage::app()->getCache(); $cache->remove($string_key);
How can I store the info to the Magento cache object
You can init Magento cache object first and save data into the Magento cache object. Here is the example
$cache = Mage::app()->getCache(); $cache->save($data, $key, array($tag), $lifetime);
How can I know the Magento flat catalog is enabled or not.
You can use helper model – catalog/category_flat to check if the Magento flat catalog is enabled or not
Mage::helper('catalog/category_flat')->isEnabled()